robotics and autonomous systems

Fueled by “the love of the game,” a team of Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center students overcame GPS‑free technical challenges to take first place at the 2026 Raytheon Autonomous Vehicle Competition.

As the saying goes, if you love something, set it free. If it maps an area, finds a target, delivers a package, and comes back, the trophy is yours forever. Or something like that.

Assistant Professor Xuesu Xiao received two prestigious awards for his significant contributions to robotics and leadership of the RobotiXX Lab, where he develops autonomous robots for challenging environments and supports the next generation of roboticists.

Research Interests: Field robotics, motion planning, machine learning

Research Interests: Human-AI interaction, NLP, machine learning

Research Interests: Multi-robot systems, Multi-Agent Games, Dynamics and Control, Cooperative Control, Animal Group Behavior, Bio-inspired Robotics

Research Interests: Cyber-physical systems, game theory, smart cities

Research Interests: Reasoning and navigation under uncertainty and unknown environments, perception and learning

Research Interests: Human-computer interaction (HCI), virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR)

Research Interests: Multi-robot systems, swarm robots, bio-inspired robots, distributed resource allocation