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Xi Yu’s research lies at the intersection of mobile robotics, swarm intelligence, and networked control systems, with a focus on enabling resilient coordination in large-scale, dynamic, and communication-constrained environments. Her foundational work on rolling path planning for mobile robots in globally unknown environments with moving obstacles (27 citations) introduced a predictive-control-inspired strategy that remains influential for real-time navigation. More recently, Yu has made pivotal contributions to resilient consensus in robot swarms, developing time-varying communication topologies that allow teams to maintain coordination despite intermittent connectivity and non-cooperative agents. Her 2021 paper on resilient consensus with periodic motion (24 citations) and her 2020 work on synthesizing communication networks with information propagation guarantees (20 citations) are particularly notable for addressing the fundamental challenge of scaling robot teams to large task spaces. Yu has also advanced marine robotics, studying synchronous rendezvous for ocean monitoring networks (18 citations) and modular robot formation for resilient consensus (10 citations). Her work bridges theoretical guarantees with practical deployment, offering students and researchers a rigorous framework for designing robust, decentralized multi-robot systems that can operate in the uncertain, real-world environments where traditional approaches fail.