Minghui Zhu

Affiliate Researcher
Titles and Affiliations
Professor, Electrical Engineering

Research Summary

Systems and control, multi-agent networks, distributed algorithms, robotics

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Recent Publications

Byzantine-resilient federated online learning for Gaussian process regression

Zhang, X., Yuan, Z. & Zhu, M., Jan 2026, In: Automatica. 183, 112554.

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Precision heating strategy based dynamic heater path planning for frost protection in apple orchards

Hua, W., He, L., Heinemann, P. & Zhu, M., Feb 2025, In: Biosystems Engineering. 250, p. 117-132 16 p.

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UGV-Based Precision Spraying System for Chemical Apple Blossom Thinning on Trellis Trained Canopies

Mu, X., He, L., Heinemann, P., Schupp, J., Karkee, M. & Zhu, M., Jun 2025, In: Journal of Field Robotics. 42, 4, p. 1000-1011 12 p.

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All-time safety and sample-efficient meta update for online safe meta reinforcement learning under Markov task transition

Yuan, Z., Xu, S. & Zhu, M., Aug 2025, In: Machine Learning. 114, 8, 173.

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Distributed Safe Learning and Planning for Multirobot Systems

Yuan, Z. & Zhu, M., 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 70, 12, p. 7802-7817 16 p.

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Attack estimation of switched nonlinear control systems using invertibility

Zhang, X., Lu, Y. & Zhu, M., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems.

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In-Trajectory Inverse Reinforcement Learning: Learn Incrementally Before an Ongoing Trajectory Terminates

Liu, S. & Zhu, M., 2024, In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 37

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Transactive Energy System Deployment over Insecure Communication Links

Lu, Y., Lian, J., Zhu, M. & Ma, K., 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 21, 3, p. 2677-2688 12 p.

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Meta-Reinforcement Learning with Universal Policy Adaptation: Provable Near-Optimality under All-task Optimum Comparator

Xu, S. & Zhu, M., 2024, In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 37

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Federated reinforcement learning for robot motion planning with zero-shot generalization

Yuan, Z., Xu, S. & Zhu, M., Aug 2024, In: Automatica. 166, 111709.

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Lightweight Distributed Gaussian Process Regression for Online Machine Learning

Yuan, Z. & Zhu, M., Jun 1 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 69, 6, p. 3928-3943 16 p.

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Multirobot-Guided Crowd Evacuation: Two-Scale Modeling and Control

Zheng, T., Yuan, Z., Nayyar, M., Wagner, A. R., Zhu, M. & Lin, H., 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 32, 6, p. 2194-2206 13 p.

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Optimal Bilevel Lottery Design for Multiagent Systems

Kim, H. & Zhu, M., Nov 1 2023, In: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. 53, 11, p. 7177-7187 11 p.

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AN ADVANCED ROBOTIC SYSTEM FOR PRECISION CHEMICAL THINNING OF APPLE BLOSSOMS

Mu, X., Hussain, M., He, L., Heinemann, P., Schupp, J., Karkee, M. & Zhu, M., 2023, In: Journal of the ASABE. 66, 5, p. 1125-1134 10 p.

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Secure Perception-Driven Control of Mobile Robots Using Chaotic Encryption

Zhang, X., Yuan, Z., Xu, S., Lu, Y. & Zhu, M., Apr 2023, In: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 69, 4, p. 2429-2436 8 p.

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