Selected Publications
Journal Papers
1. Thibault P. Gouache, Christopher Brunskill, Gregory P. Scott, Yang Gao, Pierre Coste, Yves Gourinat, Regolith simulant preparation methods for hardware testing, Planetary and Space Science, Volume 58, Issues 14-15, pp. 1977-1984, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2010.09.021, 2010
2. Dario L. Sancho-Pradel and Yang Gao, “A Survey on Terrain Assessment Techniques for Autonomous Operation of Planetary Robots”, Journal of British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 63, No. 5/6, pp. 206-217, 2010
3. Robert Gowen, Alan Smith, Richard Ambrosi, Olga Prieto Ballesteros, Simeon Barber, Patrick Brown, Phillip Church, Glyn Collinson, Andrew Coates, Gareth Collins, Ian Crawford, Veronique Dehant, Julian Chela-Flores, Dominic Fortes, George Fraser, Yang Gao, Andrew Griffiths, Peter Grindrod, Leonid Gurvits, Axel Hagermann, Toby Hopf, Hauke Hussmann, Ralf Jaumann, Adrian Jones, Geraint Jones, Katherine Joy, Ozgur Karatekin, Günter Kargl, Antonella Macagnano, Anisha Mukherjee, Peter Muller, Ernesto Palomba, Tom Pike, Derek Pullen, Francois Raulin, Lutz Richter, Simon Sheridan, Mark Sims, Frank Sohl, Joshua Snape, Jon Sykes, Tim Stevenson,Nigel Wells, “MICRO-PENETRATORS FOR IN-SITU SUB-SURFACE INVESTIGATIONS OF EUROPA”, Advances in Space Research, doi:10.1016/j.asr.2010.06.026, 2010
4. Smith A, Crawford IA, Gowen RA, Ball AJ, Barber SJ, Church P, Coates AJ, Gao Y, Griffiths AD, Hagermann A, Joy KH, Phipps A, Pike WT, Scott R, Sheridan S, Sweeting M, Talboys D, Tong V, Wells N, Biele J, Chela-Flores J, Dabrowski B, Flannagan J, Grande M, Grygorczuk J, Kargl G, Khavroshkin OB, Klingelhoefer G, Knapmeyer M, Marczewski W, McKenna-Lawlor S, Richter L, Rothery DA, Seweryn K, Ulamec S, Wawrzaszek R, Wieczorek M, Wright IP, Sims M, “LunarEX-a proposal to cosmic vision”, EXP ASTRON, Volume: 23, Issue: 3, pp. 711-740, DOI: 10.1007/s10686-008-9109-6, March 2009
5. Y. Gao, A. Phipps, M. Taylor, J. Clemmet, I. A. Crawford, A. J. Ball, L. Wilson, D. Parker, M. Sweeting, A. Curiel, P. Davies, A. Baker, T. Pike, A. Smith, and R. Gowen, “Lunar Science with Affordable Small Spacecraft Technologies: MoonLITE & Moonraker”, Planet. & Space Sci., Volume 56, Issues 3-4, pp. 368-377, doi:10.1016/j.pss.2007.11.005, March 2008.
6. N.I. Kömle, E. Kaufmann, G. Kargl, Y. Gao and X. Rui, “Development of thermal sensors and drilling systems for lunar and planetary regoliths”, Advances in Space Research, Volume 42, Issue 2, pp. 363-368, DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.02.088, July 2008
7. N.I. Komle, E. S. H¨utter, G. Kargl, H. Ju, Y. Gao, J. Grygorczuk, Development Of Thermal, Sensors And Drilling Systems, For Application On Lunar Lander Missions, Earth, Moon and Planets, 103, pp. 119-141, DOI: 10.1007/s11038-008-9240-4, 2008
8. Y. Gao, S. Eckersley M. Jaddou, A. Ellery, and J. Vincent, “A Planetary Micro-Penetrator Concept Study with a Biomimetic Drill & Sampler Subsystem,” Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 875-885, IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, Nov 2007.
9. Y. Gao, A. Ellery and M. Sweeting, J. Vincent, “Bio-inspired Drill for Planetary Sampling: Literature Survey, Conceptual Design and Feasibility Study,” Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 703-710, AIAA J. Spacecraft & Rockets, DOI: 10.2514/1.23025, 2007.
10. Y. Gao and M. J. Er, “An Intelligent Adaptive Control Scheme for Postsurgical Blood Pressure Regulation,” IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, Vol. 16, Issue 2, pp. 475-483, DOI: 10.1109/TNN.2004.841798, 2005.
11. Y. Gao and M. J. Er, “NARMAX Time Series Model Prediction: Feedforward and Recurrent Fuzzy Neural Network Approaches,” Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Vol. 150, Issue 2, pp. 331-350, DOI: 10.1016/j.fss.2004.09.015, 2005
12. Y. Gao, A. Ellery, M. Jaddou, J. Vincent and S. Eckersley, “A Novel Penetration System for in situ Astrobiological Studies,” Int. J. Advanced Robotic Systems, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 281-286, 2005.
13. Y. Gao and M. J. Er, “Online Adaptive Fuzzy Neural Identification and Control of a Class of MIMO Nonlinear Systems,” IEEE Trans, Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 11, Issue 4, pp. 462-477, DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2003.814833, 2003.
14. M. J. Er and Y. Gao, “Robust Adaptive Control of Robot Manipulators Using Generalized Fuzzy Neural Networks,” IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics, Vol. 50, Issue 3, pp. 620 –628, DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2003.812454, 2003.
15. Y. Gao and M. J. Er, “Modeling, Control and Stability Analysis of Nonlinear Systems Using Generalized Fuzzy Neural Networks,” Int.l J. Systems Science, Vol. 34, Issue 6, pp. 427-438, DOI: 10.1080/00207720310001612855, 2003.
16. Y. Gao, M. J. Er and S. Yang, “Adaptive Fuzzy Neural Control of Robot Manipulators,” IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics, Vol. 48, Issue 6, pp. 1274-1278, 2001.
17. S. Q. Wu, M.J. Er and Y. Gao, “A Fast Approach for Automatic Generation of Fuzzy Rules by Generalized Dynamic Fuzzy Neural Networks,” IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 9, Issue 4, pp. 578-594, 2001.
18. Y. Gao and M. J. Er, “Adaptive Fuzzy Neural Control of Multiple-Link Robot Manipulators,” Inte. J. Robotics and Automation, Vol. 16, Issue 4, pp. 172-182, 2001.
19. Y Gao, M.J. Er, N. Mastorakis, W.E. Leithead and D.J. Leith, “Trajectory tracking of robot manipulators using adaptive fuzzy neural control”, System and Control: Theory and Applications, p. 71-78, 2000
Conference Proceeding Papers
1. Robin Raus, Yang Gao, Mark Watt; “Review and Analysis of Single-Thruster Attitude Control Algorithms for Spinning Spacecraft”, Proceeding of Int. Astronautical Congress (IAC-10.C1.3.7), Prague, 2010.
2. Karin Shala and Yang Gao, Review and analysis of localization and mapping techniques for planetary rovers, Proceeding of The 10th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS), Japan, August-Sept 2010.
3. Minh-Tri Pham, Yang Gao, Viet-Dung D. Hoang Tat-Jen Cham, Fast Polygonal Integration and Its Application in Extending Haar-like Features to Improve Object Detection, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 942-949, San Francisco, USA, June 2010.
4. Changqing Yu; He-Hua Ju; Yang Gao; Pingyuan Cui, A Bilateral Teleoperation System for Planetary Rovers, Proceedings of Int. Conf. Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering (paper was also orally presented), Wuhan, China in 11-13 Dec, 2009. 2. Thibault Gouache, Yang Gao, Pierre Coste, and Yves Gourinat, Experimental Parametric Evaluation of Dual-reciprocating Drilling Mechanism Performance, Proceedings of European Conference on Spacecraft Structures, Materials and Mechanical Testing, Toulouse ,France, 15-17th September 2009.
5. Thibault Gouache, Yang Gao, Pierre Coste and, Yves Gourinat, Experimental Study of Dual Reciprocating Drilling Mechanism using Design of Experiment Approach, Proceedings of the 13th European Space Mechanisms and Tribology Symposium, Vienna, Austria, 23-25th September 2009.
6. P. Isarabhakdee and Y. Gao, Cooperative Control of a Multi-tier Multi-agent Robotic System for Planetary Exploration, Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Space, Pasadena, California, USA, July 2009.
7. C. Yu, H. Ju and Y. Gao, 3D Virtual Reality Simulator for Planetary Rover Operation and Testing, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conf. on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces, and Measurement Systems, pp. 101-106, Hong Kong, China, May 2009.
8. M. Makhlouta, Y. Gao, K. Shala, “A Vision and Behaviour Based Approach for Short-Range Autonomous Navigation of Planetary Rovers”, Proceedings of ESA Workshop on Advanced Space Technologies for Robotics and Automation – ASTRA, Noordwijk, Netherlands, Nov 2008.
9. R. Gowen, A. Smith, B. Winter, C. Theobald, K. Rees, A. J. Ball, A. Hagermann, S. Sheridan, P. Brown, T. Oddy, M. Dougherty, P. Church, Y. Gao, A. Jones, K. H. Joy, I. Crawford, T. Pike , S. Kumar, T. Hopf, N. Wells, K. Green, K. Ryden, An Update on MoonLITE, Proceedings of Int. Astronautical Congress, Glasgow, Vol. 7, pp. 4359-4369, September, 2008
10. Y. Gao, “Optical flow based techniques for ExoMars rover autonomous navigation”, Proceedings of Int. Symp. Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS), LA, USA, Feb 2008
11. A. Wild, Y. Gao and M. Sweeting, “Sensing and Autonomous High Precision Planetary Landers”, Proceedings of ESA Int. Conf. GNC, June 2008
12. Y. Gao, A. Phipps, M. Taylor, J. Clemmet, I. A. Crawford, A. J. Ball, L. Wilson, D. Parker, M. Sweeting, A. Curiel, P. Davies, A. Baker, Concepts and instruments of UK Moonlite & Moonraker missions, Proceedings of Int. Astronautical Congress, 2:1037-1045, Hyderabad, September, 2007
13. Yang Gao, Andy Phipps, Mark Taylor, Jim Clemmet, Dave Parker, Ian A. Crawford, Andrew J. Ball, Lionel Wilson, Alex da Silva Curiel, Phil Davies, Martin Sweeting, Adam Baker, “UK Lunar Science Missions: MoonLITE & Moonraker”, Proc. DGLR Int. Symposium “To Moon and beyond”, Bremen, Germany, March, 2007
14. Y. Gao and A. Ellery, “Autonomous Navigation Based on Optic Flow for ExoMars Rovers,” Proc. ESA Advanced Space Technologies for Robotics & Automation (ASTRA), ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands, November, 2006.
15. L. Richter, A. Ellery, Y. Gao, L. Joudrier, S. Michaud, N. Schmitz, and S. Weiss. “A Predictive Wheel-Soil Interaction Model for Planetary Rovers Validated in Testbeds and Against MER Mars Rover Performance Data,” Proc. ESA Advanced Space Technologies for Robotics & Automation (ASTRA), ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands, November, 2006.
16. Y. Gao, A. Ellery, M. Jaddou and J. Vincent, “Deployable wood wasp drill for planetary subsurface exploration,” Proc. IEEE Aerospace Conf., paper 2.0606, Big Sky, MT, USA, 2006
17. Davies, P; Phipps, A; Taylor, M; Curiel, AD; Baker, A; Gao, Y; Sweeting, M; Parker, D; Crawford, IA; Ball, AJ; Wilson, L, “UK Lunar Science Missions: Moonlite & Moonraker”, Proc. 3rd International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies, VOL. 1&2, pp. 774-779, 2007
18. Y. Gao, A. Ellery, M. Jaddou and J. Vincent, “Bio-inspired drill for planetary subsurface sampling - Literature Survey, Conceptual Design and Feasibility Study,” Proc. AISB - Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems, Vol. 2, pp. 71-77, Bristol, England, UK, 2006
19. Y. Gao, A. Ellery, M. Jaddou, J. Vincent and S. Eckersley, “A Biologically-Inspired Penetration/Drilling/ Sampling System for in situ Astrobiological Studies,” pp. 51-56, Proc. Conf. Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, London, UK, 2005
20. A. Ellery and Y. Gao, “Autonomous Navigation Based on Optic Flow for ExoMars Rovers,” Proc. AISB - Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems, Vol. 2, p. 70, Bristol, England, UK, 2006
21. L. Richter, A. Ellery, Y. Gao, S. Michaud, N. Schmitz, and S. Weiss, “A predictive wheel-soil interaction model for planetary rovers validated in testbeds and against MER Mars rover performance data”, Proc. 10th European Conf. of the Int. Society for Terrain-Vehicle Systems, Budapest, Hungary, October 3 – 6, 2006
22. C. Menon, N. Lan, L. Bilhaut, J. Vincent, Y. Gao, A. Ellery, S. Eckersley, S. Carosio, and D. Zangani, “Bio-Inspired Micro Drillers For Future Planetary Explorations”, Proc. CANEUS Conf. Micro-Nano-Technologies for Aerospace Applications, Toulouse, France, 2006
23. A. Baker, A. Phipps, M. Sweeting, A. Ellery and Y. Gao, “Challenges and options for an affordable small lunar sample return mission”, Proc. International Astronautical Congress, Valencia, Spain, 2006
24. Y. Gao and M. J. Er, “Soft Computing Approach for Time Series Prediction,” Proc. 16th IFAC World Congress on Automated Control, Prague, Czech Republic, 2005.
25. Y. Gao and M. J. Er, “NARMAX-Model-Based Time Series Prediction: Feedforward and Recurrent Fuzzy Neural Network Approaches,” Proc. 6th International Conference on Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Technologies in Nuclear Science, pp. 537-542, Blankenberge, Belgium, 2004.
26. Y. Gao and M. J. Er, “Adaptive Fuzzy Neural Modeling and Control Scheme for Mean Arterial Pressure Regulation,” Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robotics and Systems, pp. 1198 - 1203, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2003.
27. Y. Gao and M. J. Er, “Adaptive Fuzzy Neural Control of Mean Arterial Pressure Through Sodium Nitroprusside Infusion,” Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Decision and Control, pp. 2198-2203, Maui, Hawaii, USA, 2003.
28. Z. Li, M.J. Er and Y. Gao, “An Adaptive RBFN-based Filter for Adaptive Noise Cancellation, “ Proceedings of 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Hawaii, USA, pp. 6175-6180, 9-12 December, 2003.
29. H. Jiang, M.J. Er and Y. Gao, “Feature Extraction Using Wavelet Packets Strategy,” Proceedings of 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Hawaii, USA, Vol. 5, pp. 4517-4520, 9-12 December, 2003.
30. M. J. Er and Y. Gao, “Adaptive control strategy for blood pressure regulation using a fuzzy neural network,” Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Systems, Man and Cybernetics, pp. 2120 – 2125, Washington DC, USA, 2003.
