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2026

SGTP: Sampling-based Game-Theoretic Planning for Real-Time Multi-Vehicle Autonomous Racing

Zhouheng Li, Fangguo Zhao, Mattia Piccinini, Baha Zarrouki, Yuan Gao, Zitong Shan, Johannes Betz, Chen Lv, and Lei Xie
arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.25388, 2026
[arXiv]

Compositional Diffusion Models for Autonomous Drone Racing

Fangguo Zhao†, Zhouheng Li†, Yunhao Luo, Hanbing Zhang, Xin Guan, Lei Xie, and Shuo Li
† Equal contribution.
RSS 2026 Workshop on Diffusion for Robot Learning, 2026
[PDF]

Rapid and Safe Trajectory Planning over Diverse Scenes through Diffusion Composition

Wule Mao, Zhouheng Li, Yunhao Luo, Fangguo Zhao, and Lei Xie
IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Annual Conference (IECON), 2026
[arXiv]

Priority-based environmental complexity-aware deadlock recovery for distributed swarm obstacle avoidance

Tianle Liu, Jiacheng He, Fangguo Zhao, Shuo Li, Zheng Chen, and Jinming Xu
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2026
[Paper]

VLM-MPPI: Grounding Natural Language in Behaviorally Diverse Trajectories for Aerial Navigation

Hanbing Zhang, Fangguo Zhao, Zerui Li, Xin Guan, Peng Cheng, and Shuo Li
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026

Vision-guided MPPI for agile drone racing: Navigating arbitrary gate poses via neural signed distance fields

Fangguo Zhao, Hanbing Zhang, Zhouheng Li, Xin Guan, and Shuo Li
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026
[PDF] [Web]

One Agent to Guide Them All: Empowering MLLMs for Vision-and-Language Navigation via Explicit World Representation

Zerui Li, Hongpei Zheng, Fangguo Zhao, Aidan Chan, Jian Zhou, Sihao Lin, Shijie Li, and Qi Wu
arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.15400, 2026-02-17
[arXiv]

Beyond Reference Trajectories: A Waypoint-Based Model Predictive Path Integral Control for Agile Drone Racing

Fangguo Zhao, Xin Guan, and Shuo Li
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026
[PDF] [Web]

Loong: Online time-optimal autonomous flight for MAVs in cluttered environments

Xin Guan, Fangguo Zhao, Qianyi Wang, Chengcheng Zhao, Jiming Chen, and Shuo Li
arXiv preprint, 2026
[arXiv]
2025

Gate-aware online planning for two-player autonomous drone racing

Fangguo Zhao, Jiahao Mei, Jin Zhou, Yuanyi Chen, Jiming Chen, and Shuo Li
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
[PDF]

Learning time-optimal online replanning for distributed model predictive contouring control of quadrotors

Xin Guan, Fangguo Zhao, Shunxin Tian, and Shuo Li
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
[DOI]

Online Motion Planning for Quadrotor Multi-Point Navigation Using Efficient Imitation Learning-Based Strategy

Jin Zhou, Jiahao Mei, Fangguo Zhao, Jiming Chen, and Shuo Li
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025
[arXiv]
2024

Priority-based deadlock recovery for distributed swarm obstacle avoidance in cluttered environments

Jiacheng He, Fangguo Zhao, Shaohao Zhu, Shuo Li, and Jinming Xu
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024
[DOI]
2023

Time-optimal trajectory generation with input boundaries and dynamic waypoints constraints for a swarm of quadrotors

Yuyang Shen, Fangguo Zhao, Jiahao Mei, Jin Zhou, Jinming Xu, and Shuo Li
14th annual International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition (IMAV), 2023
[PDF]

Aggressive trajectory generation for a swarm of autonomous racing drones

Yuyang Shen, Jin Zhou, Danzhe Xu, Fangguo Zhao, Jinming Xu, Jiming Chen, and Shuo Li
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023
[PDF]