Publications

Journals

[5]. (Sensors) Jung, Yunsik, Lingfeng Tao, Michael Bowman, Jiucai Zhang, and Xiaoli Zhang. 2026. ”Risk-Prioritized Experience Replay for Stable In-Hand Manipulation” Sensors 26, no. 12: 3633.

[4]. (IEEE RAL) Lingfeng Tao, Michael Bowman, Jiucai Zhang, and Xiaoli Zhang. ”Stable In-Hand Manipulation with Finger-Specific Multi-Agent Shadow Critic Consensus and Information Sharing.” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 10, no. 3 (2025): 2407-2413.

[3]. (JINT) Lingfeng Tao, Michael Bowman, Xu Zhou, Jiucai Zhang, and Xiaoli Zhang. ’Learn and Transfer Knowledge of Preferred Assistance Strategies in Semi-Autonomous Telemanipulation.’ Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 104, no. 3 (2022): 1-16.

[2]. (JINT) Lingfeng Tao, Jiucai Zhang, and Xiaoli Zhang. ’Multi-Phase Multi-Objective Dexterous Manipulation with Adaptive Hierarchical Curriculum.’ Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 106, no. 1 (2022): 1-11.

[1]. (IEEE RAL) Lingfeng Tao, Michael Bowman, Jiucai Zhang, and Xiaoli Zhang. ’Forming Real-World Human-Robot Cooperation for Tasks With General Goal.’ IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7, no. 2 (2021): 762-769.

Conference Publications

[19]. (IEEE IROS2026) Haoran Guo, Haoyang Wang, Zhengxiong Li, Lingfeng Tao, ’Data-Driven Optimization of Tactile Sensor Configurations for Dexterous Manipulation.’ In 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE, 2026.

[18]. (IEEE IROS2026) Jian Song, Xinmin Fang, Lingfeng Tao, Zhengxiong Li, ’Contact-Centric Forward Dynamics for Dexterous Manipulation via Mode-Gated Tactile Graphs.’ In 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE, 2026.

[17]. (IEEE IROS2026) Kaiyang Qian, Xinmin Fang, Lingfeng Tao, Zhengxiong Li, ’Orthogonal Composite Tokens: Geometric Noise Isolation for Robust Multimodal Robot Manipulation.’ In 2026 IEEE/RSJ
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE, 2026.

[16]. (IEEE IROS2026) Xinmin Fang, Lingfeng Tao, Zhengxiong Li, ’ExplicitDP: Generalized Multi-Task Manipulation with Explicit Diffusion Policies via Phase-Aware Task Understanding.’ In 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE, 2026.

[15]. (IEEE IROS2026) Xinmin Fang, Lingfeng Tao, Zhengxiong Li, ’DexTact: A Visuo-Tactile Foundation Model for Dexterous Hand Grasping.’ In 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE, 2026.

[14]. (IEEE IROS2026) Zheshuo Li, Xinmin Fang, Lingfeng Tao, Zhengxiong Li, ’LiE-CBF: Lie Group Energy-Augmented Control Barrier Functions for Redundant Manipulators on SE(3).’ In 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE, 2026.

[13]. (IEEE ICRA2026) Haoyang Wang, Haoran Guo, Zhengxiong Li, and Lingfeng Tao. ’Bi-Hap: a Bi-directional Learning-Based Control and Momentum-based Haptic Feedback System for Dexterous In-hand Telemanipulation’. 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). IEEE, 2026.

[12]. (ASEE CIEC2025) Chulho Yang, Lingfeng Tao, and Avimanyu Sahoo. ’New Programs in Mechatronics and Robotics: Curriculum Development, Status, and Direction for Engineering Technology’. In 2025 ASEE Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration (CIEC). ASEE, 21 Jan, 2026

[11]. (IEEE IROS2025) Haoyang Wang, Haoran Guo, Zhengxiong Li, Lingfeng Tao, ’Adaptive Anomaly Recovery for Telemanipulation: A Diffusion Model Approach to Vision-Based Tracking.’ In 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 20233-20238. IEEE, 2025.

[10]. (IEEE IROS2025) Haoran Guo, Haoyang Wang, Zhengxiong Li, Lingfeng Tao, ’Bio-Skin: A Cost-Effective Thermostatic Tactile Sensor with Multi-Modal Force and Temperature Detection.’ In 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 10394-10399. IEEE, 2025.

[9]. (IEEE IROS2025) Xinming Fang, Lingfeng Tao, Zhengxiong Li, ’VRobotix: A Scalable and Cost-Effective Virtual-Reality-Based Robotic Manipulation Dataset Generation Framework.’ In 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 13097-13102. IEEE, 2025.

[8]. (IEEE IROS2025) Xinming Fang, Lingfeng Tao, Zhengxiong Li, ’DexPour: Effective and Efficient High-DoF Robotic Hand Liquid Pouring via Hierarchical Reward with Approximated Proxy Abstraction.’ In 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 1397-1402. IEEE, 2025.

[7]. (IEEE CNS2025) Li, Zheshuo, Lingfeng Tao, Yidian Hu, and Zhengxiong Li. ”PlasTrack: Path-Independent Plasma-Induced Attacks on mmWave Sensing Tracking.” In 2025 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), pp. 1-9. IEEE, 2025.

[6]. (Sensor S&P 2025, Best Paper Award)Fang, Xinmin, Hailu Xu, Lingfeng Tao, and Zhengxiong Li. ”mmVanish: Extending the Vanish Attack for Multi-Radar Exploitation of mmWave Sensing with Meta-material Tags.” In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Security and Privacy of Sensing Systems, pp. 12-16. 2025.

[5]. (IEEE IROS2024) Wang, Haoyang, He Bai, Xiaoli Zhang, Yunsik Jung, Michel Bowman, and Lingfeng Tao. ”Real-time Dexterous Telemanipulation with an End-Effect-Oriented Learning-based Approach.” In 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 12164-12169. IEEE, 2024.

[4]. (IEEE ICRA2024) Lingfeng Tao, Jiucai Zhang, Qiaojie Zheng, Xiaoli Zhang. ’Curriculum-based Sensing Reduction in Simulation to Real-World Transfer for In-hand Manipulation.’ 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). IEEE, 2024.

[3]. (IEEE ICRA2023) Lingfeng Tao, Jiucai Zhang, Michael Bowman, and Xiaoli Zhang. ’A Multi-Agent Approach for Adaptive Finger Cooperation in Learning-based In-Hand Manipulation.’ In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 3897-3903. IEEE, 2023.

[2]. (IEEE SMC2021) Lingfeng Tao, Michael Bowman, Jiucai Zhang, and Xiaoli Zhang. ’Learn Task First or Learn Human Partner First: A Hierarchical Task Decomposition Method for Human-Robot Cooperation.’ In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), pp. 590-595. IEEE, 2021.

[1]. (IEEE ROBIO2021) Stanley, Matthew, Lingfeng Tao, and Xiaoli Zhang. ’Robust Motion Mapping Between Human and Humanoids Using CycleAutoencoder.’ In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), pp. 93-98. IEEE, 2021.