Longsen Gao

Full-stack in Robotics ∩ Control ∩ Deep Learning

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 afflicted in CMU Robotics Institute and Prof. Manoranjan Majji afflicted 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 space servicing and repairing project leveraging multi-robot arm system and learning-based control algorithm. Besides, I’m passionate about vision-based grasping work and am now working on a vision-based pre-capturing project for free-flying space objects.

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Selected Research Projects

Under Review
Arm Icon Safe On-Orbit Dislodging of Deployable Structures via Robust Adaptive MPC

Longsen Gao, Claus Danielson, Andrew Kwas, Rafael Fierro
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (TCST)
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RA-L 2025
Drone Icon AirBender: Adaptive Transportation of Bendable Objects Using Dual UAVs

Jiawei Xu, Longsen Gao, Rafael Fierro, David Saldaña
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
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In procedding
Arm Icon Safe Decentralized Adaptive Operation in Space via Multi-Robot System

Longsen Gao, Claus Danielson, Bennett Russell, and Rafael Fierro
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE)
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CDC 2024
Drone Icon 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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DARS 2024
Drone Icon Decentralized Adaptive Aerospace Transportation of Unknown Loads Using A Team of Robots

Longsen Gao, Kevin Aubert, David Saldana, Claus Danielson, Rafael Fierro
International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS)
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IROS 2023
Drone Icon Autonomous Multi-Robot Servicing for Spacecraft Operation Extension

Longsen Gao, Kevin Aubert, David Saldana, Claus Danielson, Rafael Fierro
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
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🚀Space Univversity Research Initiative (SURI)

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Funded by: Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Northrop Grumman Logo
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Selected Industrial Projects

UR Robot Driver Project GitHub Icon ⭐Star 1k+   Fork IconForks 1k+
UR LogoROS-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_kinematics core.
  • Resolved critical ur_kinematics bugs.
  • Interfaced ROS kinematics with dynamic for advanced motion planning.
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Professional Services

Reviewer

  • 2025: IEEE TCST, ACC
  • 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

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