Meng's Publication

Journal Papers

  1. Accelerated K-Serial Stable Coalition for Dynamic Capture and Resource Defense.
    Junfeng Chen, Zili Tang, Meng Guo. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 9(1): 443-450, 2024. [Bibtex] [PDF] [Video]
    Selected for presentation at ICRA2024

  2. Fast and Adaptive Multi-agent Planning under Collaborative Temporal Logic Tasks via Poset Products.
    Zesen Liu, Meng Guo, Weimin Bao and Zhongkui Li. Research, 2024. [Bibtex] [PDF]

  3. Time Minimization and Online Synchronization for Multi-agent Systems under Collaborative Temporal Tasks.
    Zesen Liu, Meng Guo, Zhongkui Li. Automatica, 159:111377, 2024. [Bibtex] [PDF]

  4. The e-Bike Motor Assembly: Towards Advanced Robotic Manipulation for Flexible Manufacturing.
    Leonel Rozo, Andras G Kupcsik, Philipp Schillinger, Meng Guo, Robert Krug, Niels van Duijkeren, Markus Spies, Patrick Kesper, Sabrina Hoppe, Hanna Ziesche, Mathias Bürger, Kai O Arras. Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (RCIM), 85:102637, 2024. [Bibtex] [PDF]

  5. Hierarchical Motion Planning under Probabilistic Temporal Tasks and Safe-Return Constraints.
    Meng Guo, Tianjun Liao, Junjie Wang and Zhongkui Li. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC), 68(11): 6727-6742, 2023. [Bibtex] [PDF]

  6. Multi-Robot Trajectory Planning with Feasibility Guarantee and Deadlock Resolution: An Obstacle-Dense Environment.
    Yuda Chen, Chenghan Wang, Meng Guo, Zhongkui Li. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 8(4): 2197-2204, 2023. [Bibtex] [PDF] [Video]

  7. Geometric Task Networks: Learning Efficient and Explainable Skill Coordination for Object Manipulation.
    Meng Guo, Mathias Bürger. IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO), 38(3): 1723-1734, 2022. [Bibtex] [PDF] [Video] [Supplementary]
    Selected for presentation at ICRA2022

  8. Coupled Multi-Robot Systems Under Linear Temporal Logic and Signal Temporal Logic Tasks.
    Lars Lindemann, Jakub Nowak, Lukas Schönbächler, Meng Guo, Jana Tumova, Dimos V Dimarogonas. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (TCST), 29(2): 858-865, Dec 2019. [Bibtex] [PDF]

  9. Temporal Logic Task Planning and Intermittent Connectivity Control of Mobile Robot Networks.
    Yiannis Kantaros, Meng Guo, and Michael M. Zavlanos. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC), 64(10): 4105-4120, Jan 2019. [Bibtex] [PDF]

  10. Distributed Hybrid Control Synthesis for Multi-Agent Systems from High-Level Specifications.
    Meng Guo, Dimitris Boskos, Jana Tumova, Dimos V. Dimarogonas. Control Subject to Computational and Communication Constraints. Springer, 475-241, 2018. [Bibtex] [PDF]

  11. Multi-Robot Data Gathering Under Buffer Constraints and Intermittent Communication.
    Meng Guo and Michael M. Zavlanos. IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO), 34(4): 1082-1097, Aug 2018. [Bibtex] [PDF] [Sim Videos] [Exp Videos] [SourceCode1] [SourceCode2]
    Selected for presentation at ICRA2019

  12. Probabilistic Motion Planning under Temporal Tasks and Soft Constraints.
    Meng Guo and Michael M. Zavlanos. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC), 63(12): 4051-4066, Dec 2018. [Bibtex] [PDF] [Sim Videos] [Exp Videos] [SourceCode]

  13. Task and Motion Coordination for Heterogeneous Multi-agent Systems with Loosely-coupled Local Tasks.
    Meng Guo and Dimos V. Dimarogonas. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), 4(2): 797-808, Apr 2017. [Bibtex] [PDF] [Video1] [Video2]

  14. Hybrid Control of Multi-agent Systems with Contingent Temporal Tasks and Prescribed Formation Constraints.
    Meng Guo, Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos and Dimos V. Dimarogonas. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (TCNS), Apr 2016. [Bibtex] [PDF] [Video]

  15. Communication-Free Multi-Agent Control under Local Temporal Tasks and Relative-Distance Constraints.
    Meng Guo, Jana Tumova and Dimos V. Dimarogonas. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC), 61(12): 3948-3962, Feb 2016. [Bibtex] [PDF]

  16. Multi-agent Plan Reconfiguration under Local LTL Specifications.
    Meng Guo and Dimos V. Dimarogonas. International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 34(2): 218-235, Feb 2015. [Bibtex] [PDF] [Video] [SourceCode]

  17. Controlling the Relative Agent Motion in Multi-Agent Formation Stabilization.
    Meng Guo, Michael M. Zavlanos and Dimos V. Dimarogonas. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC), 59(3): 820-826, Mar 2014. [Bibtex] [PDF]

  18. Consensus with Quantized Relative State Measurements.
    Meng Guo and Dimos V. Dimarogonas. Automatica, 49(8): 2531-2537, Aug 2013. [Bibtex] [PDF]

  19. Nonlinear Consensus via Continuous, Sampled, and Aperiodic Updates.
    Meng Guo and Dimos V. Dimarogonas. International Journal of Control (IJC), 86(4): 567-578, Jan 2013. [Bibtex] [PDF]

Conference Papers

  1. Uncertainty-bounded Active Monitoring of Unknown Dynamic Targets in Road-networks with Minimum Fleet.
    Shuaikang Wang, Yiannis Kantaros, Meng Guo. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Yokohama, Japan, 2024. [Bibtex] [PDF] [Video]
    Best Paper Award on Multi-Robots Systems - Finalist

  2. Combinatorial-hybrid Optimization for Multi-agent Systems under Collaborative Tasks.
    Zili Tang, Junfeng Chen, Meng Guo. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Singapore, 2023. [Bibtex] [PDF]

  3. Multi-agent Coordination Under Temporal Logic Tasks and Team-Wise Intermittent Communication.
    Junjie Wang, Meng Guo, Zhongkui Li. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Singapore, 2023. [Bibtex] [PDF]

  4. Online Planning of Uncertain MDPs under Temporal Tasks and Safe-Return Constraints.
    Yuyang Zhang, Meng Guo. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Cancun, Mexico, 2022. [Bibtex] [PDF]

  5. Interactive Human-in-the-loop Coordination of Manipulation Skills Learned from Demonstration.
    Meng Guo, Mathias Bürger. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Philadelphia, USA, 2022. [Bibtex] [PDF] [Video]

  6. Learning Forceful Manipulation Skills from Multi-Modal Human Demonstrations.
    An Thai Le, Meng Guo*, Niels van Duijkeren, Leonel Rozo, Robert Krug, Andras Kupcsik, Mathias Büerger. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligient Robots and Systems (IROS), Prague, Czech Republic, 2021. [Bibtex] [PDF] [Video]

  7. A ROS Package for Human-In-the-Loop Planning and Control under Linear Temporal Logic Tasks.
    Robin Loic Baran, Xiao Tan, Peter Varnai, Pian Yu, Sofie Ahlberg, Meng Guo, Wenceslao Shaw Cortez, Dimos V. Dimarogonas. IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Lyon, France, 2021. [Bibtex] [PDF]

  8. Learning and Sequencing of Object-Centric Manipulation Skills for Industrial Tasks.
    Leonel Rozo#, Meng Guo#, Andras G Kupcsik#, Marco Todescato, Philipp Schillinger, Markus Giftthaler, Matthias Ochs, Markus Spies, Nicolai Waniek, Patrick Kesper, Mathias Büerger. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligient Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, USA, 2020. [Bibtex] [PDF] [Video]

  9. Optimizing Sequences of Probabilistic Manipulation Skills Learned from Demonstration.
    Lukas Schwenkel, Meng Guo*, Mathias Bürger. Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Osaka, Japan, 2019. [Bibtex] [PDF] [Video] [Supplementary]

  10. Predictive Safety Network for Resource-constrained Multi-agent Systems.
    Meng Guo, Mathias Bürger. Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Osaka, Japan, 2019. [Bibtex] [PDF] [Video] [Supplementary]

  11. Fast Learning and Sequencing of Object-centric Manipulation Skills.
    Leonel Rozo, Andras Kupcsik, Meng Guo, Marco Todescato, Philipp Schillinger, Nicolai Waniek, Markus Giftthaler, Mathias Bürger. Workshop in Robotics: Science and systems (RSS), Freiburg, Germany, 2019.

  12. Bounded Suboptimal Search with Learned Heuristics for Multi-Agent Systems.
    Markus Spies, Marco Todescato, Hannes Becker, Patrick Kesper, Nicolai Waniek, Meng Guo. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Hawaii, USA, 2019. [Bibtex] [PDF]

  13. Human-in-the-Loop Mixed-Initiative Control under Temporal Tasks.
    Meng Guo, Sofie Andersson, Dimos V. Dimarogonas. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Brisbane, Australia, 2018. [Bibtex] [PDF] [SimVideo] [ExpVideo] [SourceCode]

  14. Temporal Task Planning in Wirelessly Connected Environments with Unknown Channel Quality.
    Meng Guo and Michael M. Zavlanos. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). Melbourne, Australia, 2017. [Bibtex] [PDF] [Video][SourceCode]

  15. Distributed Data Gathering with Buffer Constraints and Intermittent Communication.
    Meng Guo and Michael M. Zavlanos. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Singapore, 2017. [Bibtex] [PDF] [Video]
    Best Paper Award on Multi-Robots Systems - Finalist

  16. Hybrid Control of Multi-robot Systems Using Embedded Graph Grammars.
    Meng Guo, Magnus Egerstedt and Dimos V. Dimarogonas. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Stockholm, Sweden, 2016. [Bibtex] [PDF] [SimVideo] [ExpVideo]

  17. Hybrid Control of Multi-Agent Systems under Local Temporal Tasks and Relative-Distance Constraints.
    Meng Guo, Jana Tumova and Dimos V. Dimarogonas. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Osaka, Japan, 2015. [Bibtex] [PDF]

  18. Bottom-up Motion and Task Coordination for Loosely-coupled Multi-agent Systems with Dependent Local Tasks.
    Meng Guo and Dimos V. Dimarogonas. IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Gothenburg, Sweden, 2015. [Bibtex] [PDF] [Video]

  19. Cooperative Decentralized Multi-agent Control under Local LTL Tasks and Connectivity Constraints.
    Meng Guo, Jana Tumova and Dimos V. Dimarogonas. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Los Angeles, USA, 2014. [Bibtex] [PDF]

  20. Distributed Plan Reconfiguration via Knowledge Transfer in Multi-agent Systems under Local LTL Specifications.
    Meng Guo and Dimos V. Dimarogonas. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hongkong, China, 2014. [Bibtex] [PDF]

  21. Reconfiguration in Motion Planning of Single- and Multi-agent Systems under Infeasible Local LTL Specifications.
    Meng Guo and Dimos V. Dimarogonas. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Firenze, Italy, 2013. [Bibtex] [PDF]

  22. Motion and Action Planning under LTL Specification using Navigation Functions and Action Description Language.
    Meng Guo, Karl H. Johansson and Dimos V. Dimarogonas. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligient Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo, Japan, 2013. [Bibtex] [PDF]

  23. Revising Motion Planning under Linear Temporal Logic Specifications in Partially Known Workspaces.
    Meng Guo, Karl H. Johansson and Dimos V. Dimarogonas. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany, 2013. [Bibtex] [PDF]

  24. Distributed Real-time Fault Detection and Isolation For Cooperative Multi-agent Systems.
    Meng Guo, Dimos V. Dimarogonas and Karl H. Johansson. American Control Conference (ACC), Montreal, Canada, 2012. [BibTex] [PDF]

  25. Quantized Cooperative Control Using Relative State Measurements.
    Meng Guo and Dimos V. Dimarogonas. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference (CDC), Orlando, USA, 2011. [BibTex][PDF]

ArXiv Papers

Theses

  1. Hybrid Control of Multi-robot Systems under Complex Temporal Tasks.
    Meng Guo. Doctoral Thesis, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. January 2016.

  2. Cooperative Motion and Task Planning Under Temporal Tasks.
    Meng Guo. Licentiate Thesis, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. March 2014.

  3. Quantized Cooperative Control.
    Meng Guo. Master Thesis, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. June 2011.

Patents

  1. Device and method for controlling a robot device
    M. Guo, M. Bürger. US Patent App. 18/047, 358.

  2. Device and method for controlling a robot
    A. Kupcsik, M. Guo. US Patent App. 17/935, 879.

  3. Method and device for training manipulation skills of a robot system
    M. Guo, M. Bürger. US Patent App. 11/590, 651.

  4. Method for controlling a robotic device
    N. Duijkeren, A. Kupcsik, L. Rozo, M. Buerger, M. Guo, R. Krug. US Patent App. 17/661, 045.

  5. Method for controlling a robotic device and robot control unit
    A. Kupcsik, L. Rozo, M. Todescato, M. Spies, M. Giftthaler, M. Bürger, M. Guo, N. Waniek, P. Kesper, P. Schillinger. US Patent App. 11/498, 212.

  6. Method for controlling a robotic device and robot control unit
    A. Kupcsik, L. Rozo, M. Guo, P. Kesper, P. Schillinger. US Patent App. 17/453, 240.

  7. Device and method for controlling a robotic device
    M. Guo, M. Bürger. US Patent App. 17/449, 143.

  8. Method and device for operating a machine
    A. Kupcsik, L Rozo, M Guo. US Patent App. 17/355, 961.

  9. Safeguarding resources of physical entites in a shared environment.
    M. Guo, M. Bürger. EU-US-CN Patent. App. 17/273, 129.

  10. Method and device for training manipulation skills of a robot system.
    M. Guo, M. Bürger. EU-US-CN-JP Patent.

  11. Method and system for robot manipulation planning.
    A. Kupcsik, L. Rozo, M. Todescato, M. Spies, M. Giftthaler, M. Bürger, M. Guo, N. Waniek, P. Kesper, P. Schillinger. EU-US-CN Patent.