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Correlated with the trend of increasing degrees of freedom in robotic systems is a similar trend of rising interest in Spatio-Temporal systems described by Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) among the robotics and control communities.…
Primal-dual algorithms are frequently used for iteratively solving large-scale convex optimization problems. The analysis of such algorithms is usually done on a case-by-case basis, and the resulting guaranteed rates of convergence can be…
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