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Ming Cao

7 accepted papers

2026

Co-NavGPT: Multi-Robot Cooperative Visual Semantic Navigation Using Vision Language Models

ICRA 2026poster

Visual target navigation is a critical capability for autonomous robots operating in unknown environments, particularly in human-robot interaction scenarios. While classical and learning-based methods have shown promise, most existing approaches lack common-sense reasoning and are typically designed…

2026

Co-NavGPT: Multirobot Cooperative Visual Semantic Navigation Using Vision Language Models

RA-L 2026

Visual target navigation is a critical capability for autonomous robots operating in unknown environments, particularly in human-robot interaction scenarios. While classical and learning-based methods have shown promise, most existing approaches lack common-sense reasoning and are typically designed

Cited by 4SourceScholar
2021

Distributed coordinated path following using guiding vector fields

ICRA 2021poster

It is essential in many applications to impose a scalable coordinated motion control on a large group of mobile robots, which is efficient in tasks requiring repetitive execution, such as environmental monitoring. In this paper, we design a guiding vector field to guide multiple robots to follow pos…

Cited by 23SourceScholar
2017

Clustering-Based Algorithms for Multivehicle Task Assignment in a Time-Invariant Drift Field

RA-L 2017

This paper studies the multivehicle task assignment problem where several dispersed vehicles need to visit a set of target locations in a time-invariant drift field while trying to minimize the total travel time. Using optimal control theory, we first design a path planning algorithm to minimize the

Cited by 39SourceScholar
2017

Guidance algorithm for smooth trajectory tracking of a fixed wing UAV flying in wind flows

ICRA 2017poster

This paper presents an algorithm for solving the problem of tracking smooth curves by a fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle travelling with a constant airspeed and under a constant wind disturbance. The algorithm is based on the idea of following a guiding vector field which is constructed from the i…

Cited by 61SourceScholar