Publications

Publications by categories in reversed chronological order.

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Preprint

  1. arXiv
    Large language models for multi-robot systems: A survey
    Li, Peihan, An, Zijian, Abrar, Shams,  and Zhou, Lifeng
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    arXiv GitHub
  2. arXiv
    LLM-Flock: Decentralized Multi-Robot Flocking via Large Language Models and Influence-Based Consensus
    Li, Peihan,  and Zhou, Lifeng
    Preprint
    arXiv GitHub Video
  3. arXiv
    LLM-Land: Large Language Models for Context-Aware Drone Landing
    Cai, Siwei, Wu, Yuwei,  and Zhou, Lifeng
    Preprint
    arXiv Video
  4. arXiv
    Hierarchical llms in-the-loop optimization for real-time multi-robot target tracking under unknown hazards
    Wu, Yuwei, Tao, Yuezhan, Li, Peihan, Shi, Guangyao, Sukhatmem, Gaurav S, Kumar, Vijay,  and Zhou, Lifeng
    Preprint
    arXiv GitHub
  5. arXiv
    Reinforcement Learning for Game-Theoretic Resource Allocation on Graphs
    An, Zijian,  and Zhou, Lifeng
    Preprint
    arXiv

2025

  1. IROS
    Multi-robot target tracking with sensing and communication danger zones
    Li, Peihan, Liu, Jiazhen, Wu, Yuwei, Sukhatme, Gaurav S, Kumar, Vijay,  and Zhou, Lifeng
    In 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2025
    arXiv Video
  2. T-RO
    Double oracle algorithm for game-theoretic robot allocation on graphs
    An, Zijian,  and Zhou, Lifeng
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2025
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  3. CVPR
    ReasonDrive: Efficient Visual Question Answering for Autonomous Vehicles with Reasoning-Enhanced Small Vision-Language Models
    Chahe, Amirhosein,  and Zhou, Lifeng
    In Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference 2025
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  4. WACV
    Query3D: LLM-Powered Open-Vocabulary Scene Segmentation with Language Embedded 3D Gaussians
    Chahe, Amirhosein,  and Zhou, Lifeng
    In Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision 2025
    Best Paper Award of LLVM-AD Workshop
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2024

  1. ISRR
    Energy-aware routing algorithm for mobile ground-to-air charging
    Cai, Bill, Lu, Fei,  and Zhou, Lifeng
    In 2024 IEEE International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR) 2024
    arXiv Video
  2. SSRR
    Monte Carlo Tree Search for Behavior Planning in Autonomous Driving
    Wen, Qianfeng, Gong, Zhongyi, Zhou, Lifeng,  and Zhang, Zhongshun
    In 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Safety Security Rescue Robotics (SSRR) 2024
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  3. DARS
    Multi-robot target tracking with sensing and communication danger zones
    Liu, Jiazhen, Li, Peihan, Wu, Yuwei, Sukhatme, Gaurav S, Kumar, Vijay,  and Zhou, Lifeng
    In 2024 International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS) 2024
    Best Paper Award Nominated
    arXiv GitHub Video
  4. DARS
    Challenges faced by large language models in solving multi-agent flocking
    Li, Peihan, Menon, Vishnu, Gudiguntla, Bhavanaraj, Ting, Daniel,  and Zhou, Lifeng
    In 2024 International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS) 2024
    arXiv GitHub Video
  5. RSS
    Dynamic adversarial attacks on autonomous driving systems
    Chahe, Amirhosein, Wang, Chenan, Jeyapratap, Abhishek, Xu, Kaidi,  and Zhou, Lifeng
    In Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2024
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  6. ICRA
    Learning decentralized flocking controllers with spatio-temporal graph neural network
    Chen, Siji, Sun, Yanshen, Li, Peihan, Zhou, Lifeng,  and Lu, Chang-Tien
    In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024
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2023

  1. GIS
    Spatial Temporal Graph Neural Networks for Decentralized Control of Robot Swarms
    Chen, Siji, Sun, Yanshen, Li, Peihan, Zhou, Lifeng,  and Lu, Chang-Tien
    In Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 2023
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  2. CoRL
    Context-Aware Entity Grounding with Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Graphs
    Chang, Haonan, Boyalakuntla, Kowndinya, Lu, Shiyang, Cai, Siwei, Jing, Eric Pu, Keskar, Shreesh, Geng, Shijie, Abbas, Adeeb, Zhou, Lifeng,  Bekris, Kostas and 1 more author
    In Conference on Robot Learning 2023
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  3. IROS
    Assignment Algorithms for Multi-Robot Multi-Target Tracking with Sufficient and Limited Sensing Capability
    Li, Peihan,  and Zhou, Lifeng
    In 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2023
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  4. ICRA
    Active Metric-Semantic Mapping by Multiple Aerial Robots
    Liu, Xu, Prabhu, Ankit, Cladera, Fernando, Miller, Ian D, Zhou, Lifeng, Taylor, Camillo J,  and Kumar, Vijay
    In 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023
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  5. ICRA
    D2CoPlan: A Differentiable Decentralized Planner for Multi-Robot Coverage
    Sharma, Vishnu Dutt, Zhou, Lifeng,  and Tokekar, Pratap
    In 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023
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  6. ACC
    Multi-Robot Localization and Target Tracking with Connectivity Maintenance and Collision Avoidance
    Zahroof, Rahul, Liu, Jiazhen, Zhou, Lifeng,  and Kumar, Vijay
    In 2023 American Control Conference (ACC) 2023
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  7. ISys
    An Energy-Efficient Reconfigurable Autoencoder Implementation on FPGA
    Isik, Murat, Oldland, Matthew,  and Zhou, Lifeng
    In 2023 Intelligent Systems Conference 2023
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  8. F-CE
    Graph Neural Networks for Decentralized Multi-Agent Perimeter Defense
    Lee, Elijah S, Zhou, Lifeng, Ribeiro, Alejandro,  and Kumar, Vijay
    Frontiers in Control Engineering 2023
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  9. T-RO
    Robust Multi-Robot Active Target Tracking Against Sensing and Communication Attacks
    Zhou, Lifeng,  and Kumar, Vijay
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2023
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  10. T-RO
    Robust multiple-path orienteering problem: Securing against adversarial attacks
    Shi, Guangyao, Zhou, Lifeng,  and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2023
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2022

  1. DARS
    Decentralized Risk-Aware Tracking of Multiple Targets
    Liu, Jiazhen, Zhou, Lifeng, Ramachandran, Ragesh, Sukhatme, Gaurav S,  and Kumar, Vijay
    In 2022 International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS) 2022
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  2. SSRR
    Graph neural networks for decentralized multi-robot submodular action selection
    Zhou, Lifeng, Sharma, Vishnu D, Li, Qingbiao, Prorok, Amanda, Ribeiro, Alejandro, Tokekar, Pratap,  and Kumar, Vijay
    In 2022 International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) 2022
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  3. T-RO
    Risk-Aware Submodular Optimization for Multirobot Coordination
    Zhou, Lifeng,  and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2022
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  4. T-RO
    Distributed Attack-Robust Submodular Maximization for Multirobot Planning
    Zhou, Lifeng, Tzoumas, Vasileios, Pappas, George J,  and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2022
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  5. RA-L
    Adaptive and risk-aware target tracking for robot teams with heterogeneous sensors
    Mayya, Siddharth, Ramachandran, Ragesh K, Zhou, Lifeng, Senthil, Vinay, Thakur, Dinesh, Sukhatme, Gaurav S,  and Kumar, Vijay
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2022
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  6. ACC
    Robust Multi-Robot Active Target Tracking Against Sensing and Communication Attacks
    Zhou, Lifeng,  and Kumar, Vijay
    In 2022 American Control Conference (ACC) 2022
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2021

  1. RA-L
    Distributed resilient submodular action selection in adversarial environments
    Liu, Jun, Zhou, Lifeng, Tokekar, Pratap,  and Williams, Ryan K
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2021
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  2. CRR Survey
    Multi-robot coordination and planning in uncertain and adversarial environments
    Zhou, Lifeng,  and Tokekar, Pratap
    Current Robotics Reports 2021
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  3. AURO
    Game tree search for minimizing detectability and maximizing visibility
    Zhang, Zhongshun, Smereka, Jonathon M, Lee, Joseph, Zhou, Lifeng, Sung, Yoonchang,  and Tokekar, Pratap
    Autonomous Robots 2021
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  4. IROS
    Risk-Aware Submodular Optimization for Stochastic Travelling Salesperson Problem
    Balasubramanian, Rishab, Zhou, Lifeng, Tokekar, Pratap,  and Sujit, PB
    In 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2021
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  5. ICRA
    Communication-Aware Multi-robot Coordination with Submodular Maximization
    Shi, Guangyao, Rabban, Ishat E, Zhou, Lifeng,  and Tokekar, Pratap
    In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2021
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2020

  1. IROS
    Risk-aware planning and assignment for ground vehicles using uncertain perception from aerial vehicles
    Sharma, Vishnu D, Toubeh, Maymoonah, Zhou, Lifeng,  and Tokekar, Pratap
    In 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2020
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  2. IROS
    Resilient coverage: Exploring the local-to-global trade-off
    Ramachandran, Ragesh K, Zhou, Lifeng, Preiss, James A,  and Sukhatme, Gaurav S
    In 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2020
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  3. RSS
    Robust multiple-path orienteering problem: Securing against adversarial attacks
    Shi, Guangyao, Zhou, Lifeng,  and Tokekar, Pratap
    In Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2020
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  4. ICRA
    Distributed Attack-Robust Submodular Maximization for Multi-Robot Planning
    Zhou, Lifeng, Tzoumas, Vasileios, Pappas, George J,  and Tokekar, Pratap
    In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2020
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  5. Thesis
    Parsimonious, Risk-Aware, and Resilient Multi-Robot Coordination
    Zhou, Lifeng
    2020
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2019

  1. T-RO
    Sensor assignment algorithms to improve observability while tracking targets
    Zhou, Lifeng,  and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2019
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  2. MRS
    An approximation algorithm for distributed resilient submodular maximization
    Zhou, Lifeng,  and Tokekar, Pratap
    In 2019 International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS) 2019
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  3. ICRA
    Tree search techniques for minimizing detectability and maximizing visibility
    Zhang, Zhongshun, Lee, Joseph, Smereka, Jonathon M, Sung, Yoonchang, Zhou, Lifeng,  and Tokekar, Pratap
    In 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2019
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2018

  1. RA-L
    Resilient active target tracking with multiple robots
    Zhou, Lifeng, Tzoumas, Vasileios, Pappas, George J,  and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2018
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  2. T-ASE
    Active target tracking with self-triggered communications in multi-robot teams
    Zhou, Lifeng,  and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 2018
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  3. WAFR
    An approximation algorithm for risk-averse submodular optimization
    Zhou, Lifeng,  and Tokekar, Pratap
    In International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics 2018
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  4. ACC
    Strategies to design signals to spoof kalman filter
    Zhang, Zhongshun, Zhou, Lifeng,  and Tokekar, Pratap
    In 2018 Annual American Control Conference (ACC) 2018
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2017

  1. IJRNC
    Distributed model predictive control for multi-agent flocking via neighbor screening optimization
    Zhou, Lifeng,  and Li, Shaoyuan
    International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control 2017
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  2. ICRA
    Active target tracking with self-triggered communications
    Zhou, Lifeng,  and Tokekar, Pratap
    In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2017
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2015

  1. IET
    Distributed model predictive control for consensus of sampled-data multi-agent systems with double-integrator dynamics
    Zhou, Lifeng,  and Li, Shaoyuan
    IET Control Theory & Applications 2015
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  2. CCC
    Cooperative control of linear systems with coupled constraints via distributed model predictive control
    Zhou, Lifeng,  and Li, Shaoyuan
    In 2015 34th Chinese Control Conference (CCC) 2015
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