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
Yunfan Gao, Florian Messerer, Niels van Duijkeren, Rashmi Dabir, Moritz Diehl
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
Florian Messerer, Yunfan Gao, Jonathan Frey, Moritz Diehl
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
Yunfan Gao, Florian Messerer, Niels van Duijkeren, Boris Houska, Moritz Diehl
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
Yunfan Gao, Florian Messerer, Niels van Duijkeren, Moritz Diehl
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
Jonathan Frey, Yunfan Gao, Florian Messerer, Amon Lahr, Melanie N. Zeilinger, Moritz Diehl
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
Yunfan Gao, Florian Messerer, Jonathan Frey, Niels van Duijkeren, Moritz Diehl
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
Zhihui Gao, Ang Li, Yunfan Gao, Bing Li, Yu Wang, Yiran Chen
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
Zhihui Gao, Ang Li, Yunfan Gao, Yu Wang, Yiran Chen
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
Zhihui Gao*, Yunfan Gao*, Sulei Wang, Dan Li, Yuedong Xu
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}
}