Publications

Articles in Journals

[1] Wei Xiao, Calin Belta, and Christos G. Cassandras. Adaptive Control Barrier Functions. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2021 (early access)

[2] Wei Xiao and Calin Belta. High Order Control Barrier Functions. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2021 (early access)

[3] Wei Xiao and Christos G. Cassandras. Decentralized optimal merging control for connected and automated vehicles with safety constraints guarantees. Automatica, Volume 123, 109333, 2021.

[4] Wei Xiao, Christos G. Cassandras and Calin Belta. Bridging the Gap between Optimal Trajectory Planning and Safety-Critical Control with Applications to Autonomous Vehicles. Automatica, Volume 129, 109592, 2021.

[5] Wei Xiao, Calin Belta, and Christos G. Cassandras. A Learning-based Approach for Safety-Critical Systems Using Control Barrier Functions. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2021.

[6] Wei Xiao, Noushin Mehdipour, Anne Collin, Amitai Bin-Nun, Emilio Frazzoli, Radboud Tebbens and Calin Belta. Rule-based Evaluation and Online Optimal Control for Autonomous Driving. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2021.

[7] Wei Xiao, Calin Belta, Christos G Cassandras. Sufficient Conditions for Feasibility of Optimal Control Problems Using Control Barrier Functions. Automatica, 2021 (in print).

[8] Huile Xu, Wei Xiao, Christos G Cassandras, Yi Zhang, Li Li. A General Framework for Decentralized Safe Optimal Control of Connected and Automated Vehicles in Multi-Lane Intersections. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2022.

Conference proceedings

[0] Wei Xiao, Calin Belta, Christos G. Cassandras, and Daniela Rus. Control Barrier Functions for Systems with Multiple Control Inputs. In Proc. of the American Control Conference, 2022.

[1] Wei Xiao, Calin Belta, and Christos G. Cassandras. Event-triggered safety-critical control for systems with unknown dynamics. In Proc. of 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2021.

[2] Wei Xiao and Christos G. Cassandras. Decentralized optimal merging control for connected and automated vehicles on Curved roads. In Proc. of 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2021.

[3] Wei Xiao, Calin Belta, and Christos G. Cassandras. High Order Control Lyapunov-Barrier Functions for Temporal Logic Specifications, In Proc. of the American Control Conference, 2021.

[4] Wei Xiao, Noushin Mehdipour, Anne Collin, Amitai Bin-Nun, Emilio Frazzoli, Radboud Tebbens and Calin Belta, Rule-based Optimal Control for Autonomous Driving. 12th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, pages 143-154, 2021.

(Best Paper Award Finalist).

[5] Wei Xiao, Calin Belta, and Christos G. Cassandras. Feasibility guided learning for constrained optimal control problems. In Proc. of 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pages 1896-1901, 2020. (Outstanding Student Paper Award)

[6] Wei Xiao and Christos G. Cassandras. Decentralized optimal merging control for connected and automated vehicles with optimal dynamic resequencing. In Proc. of the American Control Conference, pages 4090-4095, 2020.

[7] Wei Xiao Christos G. Cassandras, and Calin Belta. Decentralized Optimal Control in Multi-lane Merging for Connected and Automated Vehicles. In Proc. of IEEE 23rd Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, pages 1–6, 2020.

[8] Yiding Ji, Xiang Yin and Wei Xiao. Local Mean Payoff Supervisory Control under Partial Observation. In Proc. of International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems. pages 390-396, 2020.

[9] Wei Xiao and Calin Belta. Control barrier functions for systems with high relative degree. In Proc. of 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pages 474–479, 2019.

[10] Wei Xiao and Christos G. Cassandras. Conditions for improving the computational efficiency of decentralized optimal merging controllers for connected and automated vehicles. In Proc. of 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pages 3158–3163, 2019.

[11] Wei Xiao, Christos G. Cassandras, and Calin Belta. Decentralized merging control in traffic networks with noisy vehicle dynamics: A joint optimal control and barrier function approach. In Proc. of IEEE 22nd Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, pages 3162–3167, 2019.

[12] Wei Xiao and Christos G. Cassandras. Decentralized optimal merging control for connected and automated vehicles. In Proc. of the American Control Conference, pages 3315–3320, 2019.

[13] Wei Xiao, Calin Belta, and Christos G. Cassandras. Decentralized merging control in traffic networks: A control barrier function approach. In Proc. of 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, pages 270–279, 2019. (Software in Matlabcentral)

[14] Wei Xiao, Wei Wang. Hopf Oscillator-Based Gait Transition for A Quadruped Robot. In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, pages 2074-2079, 2014.