| 2025 | SENSYS | Proteus: Enhanced mmWave Leaf Wetness Detection with Cross-Modality Knowledge Transfer. | Yimeng Liu, Maolin Gan, Huaili Zeng, Yidong Ren, Gen Li, Jingkai Lin, Younsuk Dong, Xiaobo Tan, Zhichao Cao |
| 2023 | RO-MAN | Situating Robots in the Organizational Dynamics of the Gas Energy Industry: A Collaborative Design Study. | Hee Rin Lee, Xiaobo Tan, Wenlong Zhang, Yiming Deng, Yongming Liu |
| 2020 | IROS | Active Alignment Control-based LED Communication for Underwater Robots. | Pratap Bhanu Solanki, Shaunak D. Bopardikar, Xiaobo Tan |
| 2020 | IROS | Expedited Multi-Target Search with Guaranteed Performance via Multi-fidelity Gaussian Processes. | Lai Wei, Xiaobo Tan, Vaibhav Srivastava |
| 2018 | ICRA | Extended Kalman Filter-Based 3D Active-Alignment Control for LED Communication. | Pratap Bhanu Solanki, Xiaobo Tan |
| 2016 | GECCO | Optimum Design of Artificial Lateral Line Systems for Object Tracking under Uncertain Conditions. | Ali Ahrari, Hong Lei, Montassar Aidi Sharif, Kalyanmoy Deb, Xiaobo Tan |
| 2015 | CEC | Design optimization of artificial lateral line system under uncertain conditions. | Ali Ahrari, Hong Lei, Montassar Aidi Sharif, Kalyanmoy Deb, Xiaobo Tan |
| 2015 | GECCO | Enhancing a Model-Free Adaptive Controller through Evolutionary Computation. | Anthony J. Clark, Philip K. McKinley, Xiaobo Tan |
| 2015 | ICRA | Autonomous sampling of water columns using gliding robotic fish: Control algorithms and field experiments. | Feitian Zhang, Osama En-Nasr, Elena Litchman, Xiaobo Tan |
| 2014 | IROS | A flexible passive joint for robotic fish pectoral fins: Design, dynamic modeling, and experimental results. | Sanaz Bazaz Behbahani, Xiaobo Tan |
| 2012 | ALIFE | Evolutionary Design and Experimental Validation of a Flexible Caudal Fin for Robotic Fish. | Anthony J. Clark, Jared M. Moore, Jianxun Wang, Xiaobo Tan, Philip K. McKinley |
| 2012 | IROS | Steady spiraling motion of gliding robotic fish. | Feitian Zhang, Fumin Zhang, Xiaobo Tan |
| 2012 | ICRA | Miniature underwater glider: Design, modeling, and experimental results. | Feitian Zhang, John Thon, Cody Thon, Xiaobo Tan |
| 2012 | RTSS | Spatiotemporal Aquatic Field Reconstruction Using Robotic Sensor Swarm. | Yu Wang, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Xiaobo Tan, Jianxun Wang, Ruogu Zhou |
| 2011 | ICRA | Underwater source localization using an IPMC-based artificial lateral line. | Ahmad Taha Abdulsadda, Xiaobo Tan |
| 2011 | IROS | Dynamic modeling of robotic fish and its experimental validation. | Jianxun Wang, Freddie Alequin-Ramos, Xiaobo Tan |
| 2010 | ICRA | Analytical modeling and experimental studies of robotic fish turning. | Xiaobo Tan, Michael Carpenter, John Thon, Freddie Alequin-Ramos |
| 2009 | ICRA | A framework for modeling steady turning of robotic fish. | Qingsong Hu, Dawn R. Hedgepeth, Lihong Xu, Xiaobo Tan |
| 2009 | IROS | Analytical and computational modeling of robotic fish propelled by soft actuation material-based active joints. | Mart Anton, Zheng Chen, Maarja Kruusmaa, Xiaobo Tan |
| 2009 | IROS | Fiber-reinforced conjugated polymer torsional actuator and its nonlinear elasticity modeling. | Yang Fang, Thomas J. Pence, Xiaobo Tan |
| 2009 | IROS | A compensated sliding-window DFT algorithm for fine-grained underwater acoustic ranging. | Stephan Shatara, Xiaobo Tan |
| 2008 | ICRA | Modeling of biomimetic robotic fish propelled by an ionic polymer-metal composite actuator. | Ernest Mbemmo, Zheng Chen, Stephan Shatara, Xiaobo Tan |
| 2008 | ICRA | Experimental investigation on underwater acoustic ranging for small robotic fish. | Stephan Shatara, Xiaobo Tan, Ernest Mbemmo, Nathan Gingery, Stephan Henneberger |
| 2007 | ACC | Multirate Sampled-Data Output Feedback Control of Smart Material Actuated Systems. | Jeffrey H. Ahrens, Xiaobo Tan, Hassan K. Khalil |
| 2007 | ACC | Control of Unknown Dynamic Hysteretic Systems Using Slow Adaptation: Preliminary Results. | Xiaobo Tan, Hassan K. Khalil |
| 2006 | IROS | A Dynamic JKR Model with Application to Vibrational Release in Micromanipulation. | Yang Fang, Xiaobo Tan |
| 2006 | IROS | An Autonomous Robotic Fish for Mobile Sensing. | Xiaobo Tan, Drew Kim, Nathan Usher, Dan Laboy, Joel Jackson, Azra Kapetanovic, Jason Rapai, Benjamin Sabadus, Xin Zhou |