Publications

BOOK & BOOK CHAPTER

  1. Y. Cao, D. Casbeer, E. Garcia, and C. Schumacher, “Distributed Multi-agent Coordination with Uncertain Interactions: A Probabilistic Perspective,” in Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications, Wiley, 2017.

  2. W. Ren and Y. Cao, Distributed Multi-agent Networks, Communications and Control Engineering Series, Springer-Verlag, London, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-85729-168-4.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

  1. E. Garcia, D. Casbeer, and Y. Cao, “An Event-triggered Control Approach for the Leader Tracking Problem with Heterogeneous Agents”, International Journal of Control, April 2017. Note: in press

  2. D. Milutinovic, D. Casbeer, Y. Cao, and D. Kingston, “Coordinate frame free Dubins vehicle circumnavigation using only range based measurements,” International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2017. Note: in press

  3. E. Garcia, Y. Cao, and D. Casbeer, “Periodic Event-triggered Synchronization of Linear Multi-agent Systems with Communication Delays,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 366-371, 2017.

  4. E. Garcia, Y. Cao, and D. Casbeer, “Decentralized Event-triggered Consensus of Double-integrator Multi-agent Systems with Packet Losses and Communication Delays,” IET Control Theory and Applications, vol. 10, no. 15, pp. 1835-1843, 2016.

  5. S. Manyam, S. Rathinam, S. Darbha, D. Casbeer, Y. Cao, and P. Chandler, “GPS Denied UAV Routing with Communication Constraints,” Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 84, no.1, pp. 691-703, 2016.

  6. Y. Cao, W. Ren, D. Casbeer, and C. Schumacher, “Finite-time Connectivity-Preserving Consensus of Networked Nonlinear Agents with Unknown Lipschitz Terms,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 61, no. 6, pp. 1700-1705, 2016.

  7. Y. Cao, “UAV Circumnavigating an Unknown Target Under a GPS-denied Environment with Range-only Measurements”, Automatica, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 150-158, 2015.

  8. A.Hashemi, Y. Cao, D. Casbeer, and G. Yin, “UAV Circumnavigation Using Noisy Range-based Measurements without GPS Information”, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, vol. 37, no. 3, 2015.

  9. Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Finite-time Consensus for Multi-agent Networks with Unknown Inherent Nonlinear Dynamics”, Automatica, vol. 50, no. 10, pp. 2648-2656, 2014.

  10. E. Garcia, Y. Cao, and D. Casbeer, “Decentralized Event-Triggered Consensus with General Linear Dynamics”, Automatica, vol. 50, no. 10, pp. 2633-2640, 2014.

  11. E. Garcia, Y. Cao, and D. Casbeer, “Model-based Event-triggered Multi-vehicle Coordinated Tracking Control Using Reduced Order Models”, Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol. 351, no. 8, pp. 4271-4286, 2014.

  12. E. Garcia, Y. Cao, H. Yu, P. Antsaklis, and D. Casbeer, “Decentralised Event-triggered Cooperative Control with Limited Communication,” International Journal of Control, vol. 86, no. 9, pp. 1479-1488, 2013

  13. Y. Cao, W. Yu, W. Ren, and G. Chen, “An Overview of Recent Progress in the Study of Distributed Multi-agent Coordination,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, special issue on Advances in Theories and Industrial Applications of Networked Control Systems, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 427-438, 2013. Full version available at arXiv:1207.3231.

  14. F. Chen, Y. Cao, and W. Ren, “Distributed Average Tracking of Multiple Time-Varying Reference Signals with Bounded Derivatives,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 57, no. 12, pp. 3169-3174, 2012.

  15. Y. Cao, W. Ren, and M. Egerstedt, “Distributed Containment Control with Multiple Stationary or Dynamic Leaders in Fixed and Switching Directed Networks,” Automatica, vol. 48, no. 8, 2012, pp. 1586-1597.

  16. L. Hou, G. Zong, Y. Wu, and Y. Cao, “Exponential I2-I8 Output Tracking Control for Discrete-time Switched System with Time-varying Delay,” International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 22, no. 11, 2012, pp. 1175-1194.

  17. Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Distributed Coordinated Tracking with Reduced Interaction via a Variable Structure Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 57, no. 1, 2012, pp. 33-48.

  18. Y. Cao, D. Stuart, W. Ren, and Z. Meng, “Distributed Containment Control for Multiple Autonomous Vehicles with Double-integrator Dynamics: Algorithms and Experiments,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 19, no. 4, 2011, pp. 929-938.

  19. Z. Meng, W. Ren, Y. Cao, and Z. You, “Leaderless and Leader-following Consensus with Communication and Input Delays under a Directed Network Topology,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, vol. 41, no. 1, 2011, pp. 75-88.

  20. F. Chen, W. Ren, and Y. Cao, “Surrounding Control in Cooperative Agent Networks,” Systems & Control Letters, vol. 59, no. 11, 2010, pp. 704-712.

  21. Y. Cao, D. Stuart, and W. Ren, “Coordinated Collective Motion Patterns in a Discrete-time Setting with Experiments,” IET Control Theory & Applications, vol. 4, no. 11, 2010, pp. 2579-2591.

  22. Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Distributed Formation Control for Fractional-order Systems: Dynamic Interaction and Absolute/Relative Damping,” Systems & Control Letters, vol. 59, no. 3- 4, pp. 233-240, 2010.

  23. Y. Cao, W. Ren, and Z. Meng, “Decentralized Finite-time Sliding Mode Estimators and Their Applications in Decentralized Finite-time Formation Tracking,” Systems & Control Letters, vol. 59, no. 9, 2010, pp. 522-529.

  24. Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Optimal Linear-Consensus Algorithms: An LQR Perspective,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, vol. 40, no. 3, 2010, pp. 819-830.

  25. Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Multi-vehicle Coordination for Double-integrator Dynamics Under Fixed Undirected/Directed Interaction in a Sampled-data Setting,” International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 20, no. 9, 2010, pp. 987-1000.

  26. Z. Meng, Y. Cao, and W. Ren, “Stability and Convergence Analysis of Multi-agent Consensus with Information Reuse,” International Journal of Control, vol. 83, no. 5, 2010, pp. 1081-1092.

  27. L. Ballard, Y. Cao, and W. Ren, “Distributed Discrete-time Coupled Harmonic Oscillators with Application to Synchronized Motion Coordination,” IET Control Theory & Applications, vol. 4, no. 5, 2010, pp. 806–816.

  28. Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Distributed Formation Control for Fractional-order Systems: Dynamic Interaction and Absolute/Relative Damping,” Systems & Control Letters, vol. 59, no. 3-4, 2010, pp. 233-240.

  29. Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Sampled-data Discrete-time Coordination Algorithms for Double-integrator Dynamics under Dynamic Directed Interaction,” International Journal of Control, vol. 83, no. 3, 2010, pp. 506-515.

  30. Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Multi-agent Consensus Using Both Current and Outdated States with Fixed and Undirected Interaction,” Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 58, no. 1, 2010, pp. 95-106.

  31. H. Chao, Y. Cao, and Y. Chen, “Autopilots for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Survey,” International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems, vol. 8, no. 1, 2010, pp. 36-44.

  32. Y. Cao, W. Ren, and Y. Li, “Distributed Discrete-time Coordinated Tracking with a Time-varying Reference State and Limited Communication,” Automatica, vol. 45, no. 5, 2009, pp. 1299-1305.

  33. W. Ren and Y. Cao, “Simulation and Experimental Study of Consensus Algorithms for Multiple Mobile Robots with Information Feedback,” Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 73-87, 2008.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

  1. J. Votion and Y. Cao, “Multi-Objective Cooperative Search of Spatially Diverse Routes in Uncertain Environments,” in IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, August 2017. Accepted. PDF

  2. Y. Cao, E. Pasiliao and J. Hong, “Towards Energy-Efficient Communication Management in the Distributed Control of Networked Cyber-Physical Systems”, in American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, May 2017.

  3. E. Garcia, S. Mou, Y. Cao, and D. Casbeer, “An Event-Triggered Consensus Approach for Distributed Clock Synchronization”, in American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, May 2017.

  4. Y. Cao, D. Casbeer, N. Ahmed, and D. Kingston, “Probabilistic Learning of Target Density Distribution”, in AIAA SciTech Conference (Learning, Reasoning, and Data Driven Systems), Grapevine, TX, January 2017.

  5. Y. Cao, D. Casbeer, E. Garcia, and X. Zhang, “Towards Cost-effective Distributed Information Fusion with Partially Active Sensors in Directed Networks”, in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV, December 2016.

  6. M. Khalili, X. Zhang, and Y. Cao, “Distributed Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Formation Control of Second-order Multi-agent Systems with Actuator Faults”, in Proceedings of 2016 Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society, Denver, CO, October 2016.

  7. Y. Cao, D. Casbeer, D. Milutinovic, and D. Kingston, “Collective Circular Motion and Cooperative Circumnavigation for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots Using Range-based Measurements”, in Proceedings of AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, San Diego, CA, January 2016.

  8. M. Khalili, X. Zhang, Y. Cao, M. Polycarpou, and T. Parisini, “Distributed Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Control of Nonlinear Uncertain Second-order Multi-agent Systems”, in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan, December 2015.

  9. D. Casbeer, Y. Cao, E. Garcia, and D. Milutinovic, “Average Bridge Consensus: Dealing with Active-Passive Sensors”, in Proceedings of ASME 2015 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference,Columbus, OH, October 2015.

  10. M. Khalili, X. Zhang, Y. Cao, and J. A. Muse, “Distributed Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Consensus Control of Multi-Agent Systems with Actuator Faults”, in Proceedings of Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society, Coronado, CA, October 2015.

  11. M. Khalili, X. Zhang, M. Polycarpou, T. Parisini, and Y. Cao, “Distributed Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Control of Uncertain Multi-agent Systems”, in Proceedings of IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes, Paris, France, September 2015.

  12. Y. Cao, “Consensus of Multi-agent Systems with State Constraints: A Unified View of Opinion Dynamics and Containment Control”, in Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, Chicago, IL, July 2015, pp. 1439-1444.

  13. E. Garcia, Y. Cao, X. Wang, and D. Casbeer, “Decentralized Event-Triggered Consensus of Linear Multi-agent Systems under Directed Graphs”, in Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, Chicago, IL, July 2015. pp. 5764-5769

  14. N. Ahmed, M. Campbell, D. Casbeer, Y. Cao, and D. Kingston, “Fully Bayesian Learning and Spatial Reasoning with Flexible Human Sensor Networks”, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Seattle, WA, 2015, pp. 80-89.

  15. N. Ahmed, D. Casbeer, Y. Cao, and D. Kingston, “Bayesian Hidden Markov Models for UAV-enabled Target Localization on Road Networks with Soft-hard Data”, in Proceedings of the SPIE Defense+Security Symposium, Baltimore, MD, 2015.

  16. Y. Cao, D. Kingston, and S. Rasmussen, “UAV Circumnavigation under a GPS-denied Environment: Algorithms and Experiments”, in Proceedings of AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, 2015.

  17. E. Garcia, Y. Cao, and D. Casbeer, “Event-Triggered Cooperative Control with General Linear Dynamics and Communication Delays,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, CA, December 2014.

  18. E. Garcia, Y. Cao, D. Casbeer, “Decentralized Sub-optimal Minimum-time Consensus,” in Proceedings of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, San Antonio, TX, October 2014. Paper No.: DSCC2014-5879

  19. A. Hashemi, Y. Cao, D. Casbeer, and G. Yin, “UAV Circumnavigation of an Unknown Target Without Location Information Using Noisy Range-based Measurements”, in Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, Portland, OR, June, 2014, pp. 4587-4592. Longer version available online at arXiv:1309.6007

  20. Y. Cao, “UAV Circumnavigating an Unknown Target using Range Measurement and Estimated Range Rate”, in Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, Portland, OR, June, 2014, pp. 4581-4586.

  21. E. Garcia, Y. Cao, and D. Casbeer, “Cooperative Control with General Linear Dynamics and Limited Communication: Periodic Updates”, in Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, Portland, OR, June, 2014, pp. 3195-3200.

  22. D. Milutinovic, D. Casbeer, Y. Cao, D. Kingston, “Coordinate Frame Free Dubins Vehicle Circumnavigation”, in Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, Portland, OR, June, 2014, pp. 891-896.

  23. E. Garcia, Y. Cao, and D. Casbeer, “Cooperative Control with General Linear Dynamics and Limited Communication: Centralized and Decentralized Event-Triggered Control Strategies”, in Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, Portland, OR, June, 2014, pp. 159-164.

  24. Y. Cao, J. Muse, D. Casbeer, and D. Kingston, “Circumnavigation of an Unknown Target Using UAVs with Range and Range Rate Measurements,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, Italy, December, 2013, pp. 3617-3622. Longer version available online at arXiv:1308.6250

  25. D. Casbeer, K. Meier, and Y. Cao, “Estimating the State of an Intruder with a UAV and Unattended Ground Sensors,” in Proceedings of the AIAA InfoTech@Aerospace Conference, Boston, MA, August, 2013. DOI: 10.2514/6.2013-4581

  26. Y. Cao, D. Casbeer, and C. Schumacher, “Reaching Consensus in the Sense of Probability,” in Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, Washington, DC, June, 2013, pp. 5415-5420.

  27. Y. Cao, W. Ren, D. Casbeer, and C. Schumacher, “Finite-Time Consensus of Networked Lipschitz Nonlinear Agents under Communication Constraints,” in Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, Washington, DC, June, 2013, pp. 1326-1331.

  28. Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Finite-time Consensus For Single-integrator Kinematics with Unknown Inherent Nonlinear Dynamics Under a Directed Interaction Graph,” in Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, June, 2012, pp. 1603-1608. Note: Best Presentation in Session.

  29. Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Finite-time Consensus For Second-order Systems with Unknown Inherent Nonlinear Dynamics Under an Undirected Interaction Graph,” in Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2012.

  30. Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Finite-time Consensus for Second-order Multi-agent Networks with Inherent Nonlinear Dynamics Under an Undirected Fixed Graph,” in Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, FL, December 2011, pp. 3452-3457

  31. Y. Cao, W. Ren, F. Chen, and G. Zong, “Finite-time Consensus of Multi-agent Networks with Inherent Nonlinear Dynamics Under an Undirected Interaction Graph,” in Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, San Francisco, CA, June-July 2011, pp. 4020-4025.

  32. Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Distributed Multi-Agent Coordination: A Comparison Lemma Based Approach,” in Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, San Francisco, CA, June-July 2011, pp. 1618-1623.

  33. F. Chen, Y. Cao, and W. Ren, “Distributed computation of the average of multiple time-varying reference signals,” in Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, San Francisco, CA, June-July 2011, pp. 1650-1655.

  34. Y. Cao, W. Ren, and Z. Meng, “Decentralized Finite-time Sliding Mode Estimators with Applications to Formation Tracking,” in Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, Baltimore, MD, June-July 2010, pp. 4610-4615.

  35. Y. Cao, D. Stuart, W. Ren, and Z. Meng, “Distributed Containment Control for Double-Integrator Dynamics: Algorithms and Experiments,” in Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, Baltimore, MD, June-July 2010, pp. 3830-3835.

  36. Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Distributed Coordinated Tracking via a Variable Structure Approach – Part I: Consensus Tracking,” in Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, Baltimore, MD, June-July 2010, pp. 4744-4749.

  37. Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Distributed Coordinated Tracking via a Variable Structure Approach – Part II: Swarm Tracking,” in Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, Baltimore, MD, June-July 2010, pp. 4750-4755.

  38. Z. Meng, W. Ren, Y. Cao, and Z. You, “Some Stability and Boundedness Conditions for Second-order Leaderless and Leader-following Consensus with Communication and Input Delays,” in Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, Baltimore, MD, June-July, 2010.

  39. Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Containment Control with Multiple Stationary or Dynamic Leaders Under a Directed Interaction Graph,” in Proceedings of the 48th IEEE conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, December 2009, pp. 3014-3019.

  40. Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Distributed Coordination of Fractional-order Systems with Extensions to Directed Dynamic Networks and Absolute/Relative Damping,” in Proceedings of the 48th IEEE conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, December 2009, pp. 7125-7130.

  41. Y. Cao and W. Ren, “LQR-based Optimal Linear Consensus Algorithms,” in Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, St. Louis, MO, June 2009, pp. 5204-5209.

  42. Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Sampled-Data Formation Control under Dynamic Directed Interaction,” in Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, St. Louis, MO, June 2009, pp. 5186-5191.

  43. Y. Cao, Y. Li, W. Ren and Y. Chen, “Distributed Coordination Algorithms for Multiple Fractional-order Systems,” in Proceedings of the 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, December 2008, pp. 2920-2925.

  44. W. Ren and Y. Cao, “Convergence of Sampled-data Consensus Algorithms for Double-integrator Dynamics,” in Proceedings of the 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, December 2008, pp. 3965-3970.

  45. Y. Cao, W. Ren and Y. Li, “Distributed Discrete-time Consensus with a Time-varying Reference State,” in Proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2008. Paper No.: AIAA-2008-7174.

  46. Y. Li, Y. Chen, I. Podlubny, and Y. Cao, “Mittag-Leffler Stability of Fractional Order Nonlinear Dynamic Systems,” in Proceedings of the IFAC Workshop on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications, Ankara, Turkey, 2008.

  47. Y. Li, Y. Chen, and Y. Cao, “Fractional Order Universal Adaptive Stabilization,” in Proceedings of the IFAC Workshop on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications, Ankara, Turkey, 2008.

  48. Y. Cao, W. Ren and Y. Chen, “Multi-Agent Consensus Using Both Current and Outdated States,” in Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea, July 2008, pp. 2874-2879.

  49. H. Chao, M. Baumann, A. Jensen, Y. Chen, Y. Cao, W. Ren, and M. Mckee, “Band-reconfigurable Multi-UAV-based Cooperative Remote Sending for Real-time Water Management and Distributed Irrigation Control,” in Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea, July 2008, pp. 11744-11749.

  50. H. Chao, Y. Cao, and Y. Chen, “Autopilots for small fixed-wing unmanned air vehicles: A survey”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, Harbin, China, August 2007, pp. 3144-3149.

  51. Y. Cao, W. Ren, N. Sorensen, L. Ballard, A. Reiter, and J. Kennedy, “Experiments in Consensus-based Distributed Cooperative Control of Multiple Mobile Robots,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, Harbin, China, August 2007, pp. 2819-2824.

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