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Yilong Qiu is a robotics and control systems researcher whose work centers on the coordination and distributed control of multi-robot systems, with a particular focus on nonholonomic mobile robots. His research addresses one of the fundamental challenges in autonomous robotics: enabling groups of robots to collaboratively track reference trajectories and maintain precise geometric formations using only limited, locally available information. Qiu has made notable contributions by developing distributed adaptive control laws with time-varying gains, allowing robot teams to achieve coordinated tracking without requiring full knowledge of a reference trajectory. A distinguishing thread in his work is the integration of event-triggered and self-triggered control frameworks, which optimize communication efficiency by reducing unnecessary data transmission while preserving system stability — a critical advancement for real-world deployments of networked robotic systems. His 2016 paper on event-triggered and self-triggered frameworks for coupled nonholonomic robots stands as his most recognized contribution, accumulating 14 citations, followed by his 2014 distributed adaptive tracking work with 10 citations. Collectively, his publications reflect a consistent effort to bridge theoretical control design with practical multi-robot coordination challenges.