Yue Yu

I am a postdoc at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin. My advisor is Ufuk Topcu. I obtained my PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Washington. My PhD advisor is Behcet Acikmese.

News

2024

February

I will give a seminar presentation at the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota on Feb 27th, 2024!

2023

November

NASA is using our algorithm! When compared with the previous state-of-the-art, our optimization algorithm helps NASA achieve five times faster computation using only one tenth of the lines of code! Read about it in the NASA’s annual project review and learn more about it in our paper!
Our paper on powered descent guidance won the 2023 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Best Paper! Congrats to my co-authors!

October

I presented my recent work on inverse games in the REALM group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology!
I presented my recent work on inverse games in the Control Systems & Dynamics Seminar at University of California San Diego!
I presented my recent work on inverse games in the FALCON seminar at the California Institute of Technology!
I presented my recent work on inverse games in the DSCD Rising Stars invited talk session at the Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference 2023.

September

Our paper “Active Inverse Learning in Stackelberg Trajectory Games” has been accepted for publication in 1st Workshop on MAD-Games: Multi-Agent Dynamic Games, as part of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2023.
I presented my recent work on netro routing in urban air mobility at the Young Researcher’s Session at NASA’s Workshop on Clean Slate Approaches to Crewed and Uncrewed Air Traffic Operations, and my recent work on inverse games at the Semiautonomous Seminars at University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Invited by Meeko Oishi, I gave a Zoom presentation at the NSF CPS Frontier weekly meeting at The University of New Mexico, NM, USA.

July

Invited by Gioele Zardini, I gave a Zoom presentation to the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Our paper “Soft-Bellman Equilibrium in Affine Markov Games: Forward Solutions and Inverse Learning” has been accepted to the 2023 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

June

Invited by Matt Harris, I gave a Zoom presentation at the MAE/ECE Colloquium at Utah State University, Logan, UT.
We presented our paper “Inverse Matrix Games With Unique Quantal Response Equilibrium”, “Online Poisoning Attacks Against Data-Driven Predictive Control”, and “Cost Design in Atomic Routing Games” at 2023 American Control Conference, San Diego, CA.

April

We submitted our paper “Soft-Bellman Equilibrium in Affine Markov Games: Forward Solutions and Inverse Learning” to 2023 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. This paper extends our previous results on inverse games from static games to Markov dynamic games.

March

Our paper “Vertiport Selection in Hybrid Air-Ground Transportation Networks via Mathematical Programs with Equilibrium Constraints” has been published in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems.
Invited by Michael Amitay, I gave a presentatuion to the Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Our paper “Real-Time Sequential Conic Optimization for Multi-Phase Rocket Landing Guidance” and “Dynamic Routing in Stochastic Urban Air Mobility Networks: A Markov Decision Process Approach” has been accepted for publication in 2023 IFAC World Congress.

February

Invited by Farshad Khorrami, I gave a presentatuion to the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at New York University, New York, NY.
Invited by Jeff Scruggs, I gave a presentation to the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Our paper “Real-Time Quadrotor Trajectory Optimization with Time-Triggered Corridor Constraints” has been published in the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.

January

Our paper “Adaptive constraint satisfaction for Markov decision process congestion games: Application to transportation networks” has been published in Automatica.

2022

December

Our paper “Cost Design in Atomic Routing Games” and “Online Poisoning Attacks Against Data-Driven Predictive Control” has been accepted for publication in 2023 American Control Conference. Our paper “Inverse Matrix Games With Unique Quantal Response Equilibrium”, which was published in IEEE Control Systems Letters earlier, has been accepted for presentation in the same Conference.

September

Our paper “Inverse Matrix Games With Unique Quantal Response Equilibrium” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Control Systems Letters.

Selected publications

CDC

Soft-Bellman Equilibrium in Affine Markov Games: Forward Solutions and Inverse Learning

Shenghui Chen, Yue Yu, David Fridovich-Keil, and Ufuk Topcu

2023

arXiv Bib Website

@misc{https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2304.00163,
  doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2304.00163},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.00163},
  author = {Chen, Shenghui and Yu, Yue and Fridovich-Keil, David and Topcu, Ufuk},
  keywords = {Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT),  Machine Learning (cs.LG),  FOS: Computer and information sciences,  FOS: Computer and information sciences},
  title = {Soft-Bellman Equilibrium in Affine Markov Games: Forward Solutions and Inverse Learning},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  year = {2023},
  selected = {true},
  booktitle = {2023 62nd {IEEE} Conference on Decision and Control ({CDC})},
  abbr = {CDC},
  copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International},
  website = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2304.00163},
  bibtex_show = {true},
  arxiv = {2304.00163},
  invgame = {true}
}

L-CSS

Inverse Matrix Games With Unique Quantal Response Equilibrium

Yue Yu, Jonathan Salfity, David Fridovich-Keil, and Ufuk Topcu

IEEE Control Systems Letters 2023

arXiv Bib Website

@article{Yu2023lcss,
  doi = {10.1109/lcsys.2022.3214857},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/lcsys.2022.3214857},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ({IEEE})},
  volume = {7},
  pages = {643--648},
  selected = {true},
  abbr = {L-CSS},
  author = {Yu, Yue and Salfity, Jonathan and Fridovich-Keil, David and Topcu, Ufuk},
  title = {Inverse Matrix Games With Unique Quantal Response Equilibrium},
  journal = {{IEEE} Control Systems Letters},
  website = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9920011},
  bibtex_show = {true},
  arxiv = {2207.08275},
  invgame = {true}
}

TCNS

Vertiport Selection in Hybrid Air-Ground Transportation Networks via Mathematical Programs with Equilibrium Constraints

Yue Yu, Mengyuan Wang, Mehran Mesbahi, and Ufuk Topcu

IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems 2023

arXiv Bib Website

@article{Yu2023tcns,
  doi = {10.1109/tcns.2023.3262192},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/tcns.2023.3262192},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ({IEEE})},
  pages = {1--12},
  author = {Yu, Yue and Wang, Mengyuan and Mesbahi, Mehran and Topcu, Ufuk},
  selected = {true},
  abbr = {TCNS},
  title = {Vertiport Selection in Hybrid Air-Ground Transportation Networks via Mathematical Programs with Equilibrium Constraints},
  journal = {{IEEE} Transactions on Control of Network Systems},
  website = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10081325},
  bibtex_show = {true},
  arxiv = {2203.05702},
  netopt = {true}
}

JGCD

Real-Time Quadrotor Trajectory Optimization with Time-Triggered Corridor Constraints

Yue Yu, Kartik Nagpal, Skye Mceowen, Behçet Açıkmeşe, and Ufuk Topcu

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics Feb 2023

arXiv Bib Website

@article{Yu2023jgcd,
  doi = {10.2514/1.g007218},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.2514/1.g007218},
  year = {2023},
  month = feb,
  publisher = {American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ({AIAA})},
  pages = {1--9},
  abbr = {JGCD},
  selected = {true},
  author = {Yu, Yue and Nagpal, Kartik and Mceowen, Skye and A{\c{c}}{\i}kme{\c{s}}e, Beh{\c{c}}et and Topcu, Ufuk},
  title = {Real-Time Quadrotor Trajectory Optimization with Time-Triggered Corridor Constraints},
  journal = {Journal of Guidance,  Control,  and Dynamics},
  website = {https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.G007218},
  bibtex_show = {true},
  arxiv = {2208.07259},
  pipg = {true}
}

L-CSS

Extrapolated Proportional-Integral Projected Gradient Method for Conic Optimization

Yue Yu, Purnanand Elango, Behçet Açıkmeşe, and Ufuk Topcu

IEEE Control Systems Letters Feb 2023

arXiv Bib Website

@article{Yu2023lcst,
  doi = {10.1109/lcsys.2022.3186647},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/lcsys.2022.3186647},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ({IEEE})},
  volume = {7},
  pages = {73--78},
  selected = {true},
  abbr = {L-CSS},
  author = {Yu, Yue and Elango, Purnanand and A{\c{c}}{\i}kme{\c{s}}e, Beh{\c{c}}et and Topcu, Ufuk},
  title = {Extrapolated Proportional-Integral Projected Gradient Method for Conic Optimization},
  journal = {{IEEE} Control Systems Letters},
  website = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9807351},
  bibtex_show = {true},
  arxiv = {2203.04188},
  pipg = {true}
}

SCITECH

Customized Real-Time First-Order Methods for Onboard Dual Quaternion-based 6-DoF Powered-Descent Guidance

Abhinav G. Kamath, Purnanand Elango, Skye Mceowen, Yue Yu, John M. Carson, Mehran Mesbahi, and Behçet Açıkmeşe

In AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum Jan 2023

Bib Website

@inproceedings{Kamath2023scitech,
  doi = {10.2514/6.2023-2003},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-2003},
  year = {2023},
  month = jan,
  abbr = {SCITECH},
  publisher = {American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics},
  author = {Kamath, Abhinav G. and Elango, Purnanand and Mceowen, Skye and Yu, Yue and Carson, John M. and Mesbahi, Mehran and A{\c{c}}{\i}kme{\c{s}}e, Beh{\c{c}}et},
  title = {Customized Real-Time First-Order Methods for Onboard Dual Quaternion-based 6-{DoF} Powered-Descent Guidance},
  booktitle = {{AIAA} {SCITECH} 2023 Forum},
  website = {https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2023-2003},
  bibtex_show = {true},
  space = {true},
  pipg = {true},
  selected = {true}
}

IROS

Active Inverse Learning in Stackelberg Trajectory Games

Yue Yu, Jacob Levy, Negar Mehr, David Fridovich-Keil, and Ufuk Topcu

Jan 2023

arXiv Bib Website

@misc{Yu2025,
  doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2308.08017},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08017},
  abbr = {IROS},
  author = {Yu, Yue and Levy, Jacob and Mehr, Negar and Fridovich-Keil, David and Topcu, Ufuk},
  keywords = {Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT),  Machine Learning (cs.LG),  Systems and Control (eess.SY),  FOS: Computer and information sciences,  FOS: Computer and information sciences,  FOS: Electrical engineering,  electronic engineering,  information engineering,  FOS: Electrical engineering,  electronic engineering,  information engineering},
  title = {Active Inverse Learning in Stackelberg Trajectory Games},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  year = {2023},
  copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International},
  website = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08017},
  bibtex_show = {true},
  arxiv = {2308.08017},
  invgame = {true},
  selected = {true}
}