AirBender: Adaptive Transportation of Bendable Objects Using Dual UAVs
BarrettHand BH8-282 User Instruction
BarrettHand BH8-282 Instruction
I’m now a fourth-year PhD student at AgMan Lab, University of New Mexico under the supervision of Prof. Rafael Fierro and co-supervision of Prof. Claus Danielson. Also, I’m collaboratively working with Prof. Howie Choset affiliate in CMU Robotics Institute and Prof. Manoranjan Majji affiliate in TAMU LASER Lab in space autonomous robotics field.
My research interest focus on High-DOF Robotics Manipulation, Control System and Deep Learning. Currently, I’m focusing on adaptive control in multi-robot arm systems and learning-based control in high-DoF robots in dexterous space manipulation missions. Besides, I’m passionate about the vision-based grasping framework for robot perception and LLM-based robot manipulation.
Recent News
- 05-08-2025: My Python library
multi-panel_mujoco-pyviewerhas been listed in PyPI. Feel free to install it throughpipdirectly! - 01-25-2025: One of our RA-L paper is accepted!
Thanks for all collaborators’ pretty hard work! 
See detail about our paper and video. - 08-07-2024: Thanks TechXplore report our research work! We are so glad the our research was reported by a worldwide influential science and technology press! The detail can be found here.
- 07-24-2024: Our paper “Adaptive Robot Detumbling of a Non-Rigid Satellite” was accepted by CDC 2024! Congratulation!!
- 06-21-2024: Oral Presentation at DARS 2024 Delighted to present my paper Decentralized Adaptive Aerospace Transportation of Unknown Loads Using A Team of Robots in the 17th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems Conference in Cornell Tech! Say hello to New York City!
Selected Research Projects
In Preparing
Information-Theoretic Graph Fusion with VLA for Policy Reasoning and Dual Robotic Control
Longsen Gao, etc
Information Fusion
In Preparing
Dynamical Optimal Distribution Manipulation via Multi-Robot System
Longsen Gao, Claus Danielson, Rafael Fierro
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE)
In Preparing
Decentralized Adaptive RRT Manipulation using Multi-Robot System
Longsen Gao, Claus Danielson, Rafael Fierro
ACC 2026
In Preparing
Safe Decentralized Adaptive Operations using Multi-Robot System
Longsen Gao, Claus Danielson, Rafael Fierro
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE)
Under Review
RA-L 2025
In procedding
CDC 2024
Adaptive Robot Detumbling of A Non-Rigid Satellite
Longsen Gao, Claus Danielson, Rafael Fierro
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
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[Paper]
[Media Report]
DARS 2024
IROS 2023
🚀Space Univversity Research Initiative (SURI)
Funded by: Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) 
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Selected Industrial Projects
⭐Star 1k+ 
Forks 1k+
ROS-Industrial Universal Robot Meta Package
Felix Messmer, Dave Coleman, Matthias Nösner,...,Longsen Gao,...
- Contribute UR Robot Driver for ROS 1 Noetic using C++/Python.
- Optimized C++
ur_kinematicscore. - Resolved critical
ur_kinematicsbugs. - Interfaced ROS kinematics with dynamic for advanced motion planning.
[Github]
Selected Competition Projects
National Second Prize
Biomimetic Robotic Fish for Automated Leakage Detection via Computer Vision
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- Autonomous biomimetic robotic fish with OpenCV-based leak detection.
- Embedded control using STM32F407ZET6 microcontroller.
- PID control for precise underwater swimming.
- Bio-inspired design combined with real-time visual inspection.
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National Second Prize
Vision-Based Control for High-Speed Locomotion of a Bipedal Robot
[Detail]
- Developed vision-based control system for bipedal robot high-speed locomotion.
- Real-time terrain detection using computer vision for adaptive gait adjustment.
- Enhanced robustness on variable and dynamic ground surfaces.
- Applied in competitive dynamic environment scenarios.
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Professional Services
Reviewer
- 2025: IEEE TCST, ACC, Control Engineering Practice
- 2024: CDC, ACC, ICLR, RA-L, IEEE ACESS, ICRA, IROS
- 2023: IROS, ICRA
Teaching Experience
- 2025 Spring: ECE595, ST: Autonomous Mobile Robots
- 2024 Spring: ECE595, ST: Autonomous Mobile Robots
Mentored Students
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Jacob Jackson (Summer Scholar, 2023)
Now M.S. in Aerospace Engineering at Virginia Tech -
Travis Ian Bouck (Summer Scholar, 2024)
Now M.S. in Aerospace Engineering at California Polytechnic State University -
Giovanni Cordova (Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2022–2024)
Now CEO & Co-Founder, Aeralytic LLC -
Richard Pang (Intern Scholar, 2025)
Now Undergraduate in Computer Science at University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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The Space University Research Initiative
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