Selected Publications

S. Gao, Y. Zhu, W. Ding, M. Cheng, Q. Ren, and Ben M. Chen, "Motion-force control of mobile manipulators via extended uncertainty and disturbance estimation," Control Engineering Practice, vol. 167, pp. 106650, 2026. [link]
S. Gao and Z. Kan, "Effective Dynamic Coverage Control for Heterogeneous Driftless Control Affine Systems," in IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 2018-2023, Dec. 2021. (Joint submission to IEEE CSL and American control conference (ACC)). [link]

S. Gao, Z. Ruan, P. Floor, M. Roveri, L. Palopoli, and D. Fontanelli, "Learning to Solve Orienteering Problem with Time Windows and Variable Profits," International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026. [project page]
S. Gao, R. Yan, Z. Zhao, M. Dou, Q. Ren, and Ben M. Chen, "Sea-U-Dragon, a light-weight unmanned underwater vehicles for robot-environment interaction," 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS) and IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM), 2024.
S. Gao, R. Yan, Z. Zhao, M. Dou, X. Liu, D. Huang, Q. Ren, and Ben M. Chen, "Dynamic Modeling of a Lightweight Unmanned Underwater Vehicle: Sea-U-Dragon," the 2024 Chinese Control Conference, 2024.
S. Gao, Y. Ding and Ben M. Chen, "A Frontier-Based Coverage Path Planning Algorithm for Robot Exploration in Unknown Environment," 2020 39th Chinese Control Conference (CCC), Shenyang, China, 2020, pp. 3920-3925. [link]