I am an Associate Professor, Phd Supervisor at the College of Intelligence Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology (国防科技大学), Changsha, China. I received my PhD degree in Systems and Control from Politecnico di Milano (2018), Italy.

My research interests include reinforcement learning, Koopman operators, learning-based predictive control, and their applications in humanoid robotics, autonomous systems, and soft robotic arms. We are accepting PhD candidates (每年固定招收2-4名博士生以及若干博士后).

Recent News

• September, 3, 2026, Our paper “Distributed Secure Learning Control for Large-scale Multirobots under Stealthy Actuator Attacks” is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics!
• June, 2026, Our paper “Reinforcement learning in linear embedding space unlocks generalizable control across soft robot configurations” is published at Nature Communications!
• January, 2026, Our paper “Adaptive Deep Koopman Operators for Soft Robot Control: Application to Luban Lock Disassembly” is published at IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics!
• January, 2026, Our paper “Distributed dynamic containment problem in discrete-time switching networks” is published at Automatica!
• September 20, 2025, Our paper “A Unified and Quality-Guaranteed Approach for Dubins Vehicle Path Planning With Obstacle Avoidance and Curvature Constraint” is published at IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems!
• September 10, 2025, Our paper “Multirate Distributed Receding Horizon Reinforcement Learning for Optimal UAV-UGV Formation Control” is published at IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence!
• July 15, 2025, Our paper “Multi-Kernel Enhanced Receding-Horizon Reinforcement Learning for Steering Control of Intelligent Vehicles” is accepted at IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems!
• July 3, 2025, Our special issue “Embodied Intelligence for Adaptive and Lifelong Robotic Systems” in Frontiers in Robotics and AI is open for submissions!
• June 30, 2025, Our paper “Game-Theoretic Constrained Policy Optimization for Safe Reinforcement Learning” is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems!
• June 27, 2025, Our paper “Vector Field Augmented Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Motion Planning of Mobile Robots” is accepted to IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics!
• June 18, 2025, Our paper “Receding-Horizon Multi-Kernel Reinforcement Learning for Motion Planning of Intelligent Vehicles” is published at IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics!
• June 16, 2025, Our three papers are accepted to the 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)!
• April 7, 2025, I will serve as a guest editor for the Journal “Frontiers in Robotics and AI”!
• April 2, 2025, I serve as an editorial board member for the Journal “Springer Nature: Discover Vehicles”!
• March 17, 2025, Our paper “ Aggressive Maneuver for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle: A Data‐Informed Model Free Method” is published at International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control!
• January 20, 2025, Our paper “Toward Scalable Multirobot Control: Fast Policy Learning in Distributed MPC” is published at IEEE Transactions on Robotics!
• January 16, 2025, Our paper “Receding-Horizon Reinforcement Learning for Time-Delayed Human–Machine Shared Control of Intelligent Vehicles” is published at IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems!
• November 17, 2024, Our paper “Offline-to-Online Learning Enabled Robust Control for Uncertain Robotic Systems Pursuing Constraint-Following” is published at IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics!
• I serve as a co-chair for the invited session “Multi-Platform Autonomous Cooperative Perception, Cognition and Decision-Making in Confrontational Environment ” with submission code P2VNPK at the 2024 7th IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems.
• I serve as a PC member at the 7th Asian Conference on Artificial Intelligence Technology.
• June 24, 2024, Our paper “Game-theoretic Receding-Horizon Reinforcement Learning for Lateral Control of Autonomous Vehicles” is published at IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology!
• February, 2024, Our paper “Learning-Based Near-Optimal Motion Planning for Intelligent Vehicles With Uncertain Dynamics” is published at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters!
• January 4, 2024, Our paper “Model-Based Safe Reinforcement Learning With Time-Varying Constraints: Applications to Intelligent Vehicles” is published at IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics!
• August 12, 2023, Our paper “Self-learning Sliding Mode Control Based on Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots” is published at ISA Transactions!
• January 29, 2023, Our paper “Receding Horizon Actor-Critic Learning Control for Nonlinear Time-Delay Systems with Unknown Dynamics” is accepted at IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems!
• January 11, 2023, Our paper “A Deep Koopman Approach for Longitudinal and Lateral Control of Autonomous Ground Vehicles” is accepted at ICRA 2023!
• November 14, 2022, Our paper “Robust consensus control of nonlinear multi-agent systems based on convergence rate estimation” is published at International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control!
• September 2, 2022, Our paper “A Dual-level Model Predictive Control Scheme for Multi-timescale Dynamical Systems” is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems!
• July, 2022, Our paper “Data-driven Kalman Filter with Kernel-based Koopman Operators for Nonlinear Robot Systems” is accepted to IROS 2022!
• May, 2022, Our paper “Deep Neural Networks with Koopman Operators for Modeling and Control of Autonomous Vehicles” is accepted to IEEE Transactiosn on Intelligent Vehicles 2022!
• I serve as a PC member at the 6th Asian Conference on Artificial Intelligence Technology.
• March 30, 2022, Our paper “A Receding-Horizon Reinforcement Learning Approach for Kinodynamic Motion Planning of Autonomous Vehicles” is accepted to IEEE Transactiosn on Intelligent Vehicles 2022!
• February 1, 2022, Our paper “Barrier Function-based Safe Reinforcement Learning for Formation Control of Mobile Robots” is accepted to ICRA 2022!
• January 12, 2022, Our paper “Robust Learning-based Predictive Control for Discrete-time Nonlinear Systems with Unknown Dynamics and State Constraints” is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems!
• December 19, 2021, Our preprint “Model-Based Safe Reinforcement Learning with Time-Varying State and Control Constraints: An Application to Intelligent Vehicles” is uploaded at TechRxiv and arXiv!
• I will serve as a session chair on the topic “AI, Intelligent Control for Autonomous Robots” at IEEE ARM 2022, the submission code of our session is 4999h!!!
• November 30, 2021, Our paper “Continuous‐time receding‐horizon reinforcement learning and its application to path‐tracking control of autonomous ground vehicles” is published at Optimal Control Applications and Methods!
• November 2, 2021, Our paper “基于滚动时域强化学习的智能车辆侧向控制算法 (doi:10.16383/j.aas.c210555)” is accepted to 自动化学报 (Acta Automatica Sinica)!
• October 25, 2021, Our paper “Robust Tube-based Model Predictive Control with Koopman Operators” is accepted to Automatica!
• September 29, 2021, Our paper “Dual heuristic programming with just‐in‐time modeling for self‐learning fault‐tolerant control of mobile robots” is published at Optimal Control Applications and Methods!