Publications
A full list is also available on my Google Scholar profile. Names marked with * denote equal contribution.
2026
Semi-Infinite Programming for Collision-Avoidance in Optimal and Model Predictive Control
T-RO IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 42, pp. 2399–2418, 2026
@Article{Gao2026,
author = {Gao, Yunfan and Messerer, Florian and van Duijkeren, Niels and Dabir, Rashmi and Diehl, Moritz},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics},
title = {Semi-Infinite Programming for Collision Avoidance in Optimal and Model-Predictive Control},
year = {2026},
issn = {1941-0468},
pages = {2399--2418},
volume = {42},
doi = {10.1109/tro.2026.3686181},
}Riccati-ZORO: An efficient algorithm for heuristic online optimization of internal feedback laws in robust and stochastic model predictive control
EJC European Journal of Control, article 101563, 2026
@Article{Messerer2026,
author = {Messerer, Florian and Gao, Yunfan and Frey, Jonathan and Diehl, Moritz},
journal = {European Journal of Control},
title = {Riccati-{ZORO}: An efficient algorithm for heuristic online optimization of internal feedback laws in robust and stochastic model predictive control},
year = {2026},
pages = {101563},
doi = {10.1016/j.ejcon.2026.101563},
}2024
Real-Time-Feasible Collision-Free Motion Planning For Ellipsoidal Objects
CDC'24 Proc. of the IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, 2024
@inproceedings{Gao2024b,
title = {Real-Time-Feasible Collision-Free Motion Planning For Ellipsoidal Objects},
author = {Yunfan Gao and Florian Messerer and Niels van Duijkeren and Boris Houska and Moritz Diehl},
booktitle = {Proc. of the IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control (CDC)},
year = {2024}
}Stochastic Model Predictive Control with Optimal Linear Feedback for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments
IFAC'24 IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 58, no. 18, pp. 153–158, 2024
@article{Gao2024,
issn = {2405-8963},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.09.024},
volume = {58},
pages = {153-158},
number = {18},
year = {2024},
journal = {IFAC-PapersOnLine},
author = {Yunfan Gao and Florian Messerer and Niels van Duijkeren and Moritz Diehl},
title = {Stochastic Model Predictive Control with Optimal Linear Feedback for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments},
}Efficient Zero-Order Robust Optimization for Real-Time Model Predictive Control with acados
ECC'24 Proc. of the European Control Conf., 2024
@inproceedings{Frey2024,
year = {2024},
booktitle = {Proc. of the European Control Conf. (ECC)},
author = {Jonathan Frey and Yunfan Gao and Florian Messerer and Amon Lahr and Melanie N Zeilinger and Moritz Diehl},
title = {Efficient Zero-Order Robust Optimization for Real-Time Model Predictive Control with acados},
}2023
Collision-free Motion Planning for Mobile Robots by Zero-order Robust Optimization-based MPC
ECC'23 Proc. of the European Control Conf., 2023
@inproceedings{Gao2023,
year = {2023},
booktitle = {Proc. of the European Control Conf. (ECC)},
author = {Yunfan Gao and Florian Messerer and Jonathan Frey and Niels van Duijkeren and Moritz Diehl},
title = {Collision-free Motion Planning for Mobile Robots by Zero-order Robust Optimization-based MPC},
}2021
FedSwap: A federated learning based 5G decentralized dynamic spectrum access system
ICCAD'21 (Invited) Proc. IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. on Computer Aided Design, 2021
@inproceedings{gao2021fedswap,
title = {FedSwap: A federated learning based {5G} decentralized dynamic spectrum access system},
author = {Zhihui Gao and Ang Li and Yunfan Gao and Bing Li and Yu Wang and Yiran Chen},
booktitle = {IEEE/ACM ICCAD'21},
year = {2021},
}Hermes: Decentralized dynamic spectrum access system for massive devices deployment in 5G
EWSN'21 Proc. Int. Conf. on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks, 2021
@inproceedings{gao2021hermes,
title = {Hermes: Decentralized dynamic spectrum access system for massive devices deployment in {5G}},
author = {Zhihui Gao and Ang Li and Yunfan Gao and Yu Wang and Yiran Chen},
booktitle = {Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks},
year = {2021},
}2020
CRISLoc: Reconstructable CSI fingerprinting for indoor smartphone localization
IoT-J IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 3422–3437, 2020
@article{gao2020crisloc,
title = {CRISLoc: Reconstructable {CSI} fingerprinting for indoor smartphone localization},
author = {Zhihui Gao and Yunfan Gao and Sulei Wang and Dan Li and Yuedong Xu},
journal = {IEEE Internet of Things Journal},
volume = {8},
number = {5},
pages = {3422--3437},
year = {2020},
publisher = {IEEE}
}