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Multi-agent interacting systems are prevalent in the world, from pure physical systems to complicated social dynamic systems. In many applications, effective understanding of the situation and accurate trajectory prediction of interactive…

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A new framework is developed for control of constrained nonlinear systems with structured parametric uncertainties. Forward invariance of a safe set is achieved through online parameter adaptation and data-driven model estimation. The new…

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Robotic manipulation research has investigated contact-rich problems and strategies that require robots to intentionally collide with their environment, to accomplish tasks that cannot be handled by traditional collision-free solutions. By…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Kejia Ren , Gaotian Wang , Andrew S. Morgan , Kaiyu Hang

Soft robotics has advanced rapidly, yet its control methods remain fragmented: different morphologies and actuation schemes still require task-specific controllers, hindering theoretical integration and large-scale deployment. A generic…

In robotics, a common challenge in imitation learning is the mismatch between training and deployment conditions, caused, for example, by environmental changes or imperfect observation and control. When a robot follows a nominal trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ziyi Xu , Cem Bilaloglu , Yiming Li , Sylvain Calinon

The recent development of novel aerial vehicles capable of physically interacting with the environment leads to new applications such as contact-based inspection. These tasks require the robotic system to exchange forces with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Weixuan Zhang , Lionel Ott , Marco Tognon , Roland Siegwart

In this paper, we propose and demonstrate an adaptive-sliding mode control for trajectory tracking control of robot manipulators subjected to uncertain dynamics, vibration disturbance, and payload variation disturbance. Throughout this work…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Mustafa M. Mustafa , Carl D. Crane , Ibrahim Hamarash

Mobile robots have received a great deal of research in recent years. A significant amount of research has been published in many aspects related to mobile robots. Most of the research is devoted to design and develop some control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 A. Albagul , Wahyudi

Soft robots are made of compliant materials and perform tasks that are challenging for rigid robots. However, their continuum nature makes it difficult to develop model-based control strategies. This work presents a robust model-based…

In this study, an adaptive object deformability-agnostic human-robot collaborative transportation framework is presented. The proposed framework enables to combine the haptic information transferred through the object with the human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Doganay Sirintuna , Alberto Giammarino , Arash Ajoudani

Compliance plays a crucial role in manipulation, as it balances between the concurrent control of position and force under uncertainties. Yet compliance is often overlooked by today's visuomotor policies that solely focus on position…

The automation of robotic tasks requires high precision and adaptability, particularly in force-based operations such as insertions. Traditional learning-based approaches either rely on static datasets, which limit their ability to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Zebin Duan , Frederik Hagelskjær , Aljaz Kramberger , Juan Heredia , Norbert Krüger

Safe and compliant control of dynamic systems in interaction with the environment, e.g., in shared workspaces, continues to represent a major challenge. Mismatches in the dynamic model of the robots, numerical singularities, and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Carlo Tiseo , Wolfgang Merkt , Wouter Wolfslag , Sethu Vijayakumar , Michael Mistry

Dexterous manipulation of objects through fine control of physical contacts is essential for many important tasks of daily living. A fundamental ability underlying fine contact control is compliant control, \textit{i.e.}, controlling the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Jinda Cui , Jiawei Xu , David Saldaña , Jeff Trinkle

Model-based control requires an accurate model of the system dynamics for precisely and safely controlling the robot in complex and dynamic environments. Moreover, in the presence of variations in the operating conditions, the model should…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Alessandro Saviolo , Jonathan Frey , Abhishek Rathod , Moritz Diehl , Giuseppe Loianno

The development of the works of the author about adaptive algorithms of teaching the robotic systems with the help of operator is described here. An operator is assumed to be an experience decision-maker and sane carrier of a target which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Valery Vilisov

This paper presents a learning-based approach for impromptu trajectory tracking for non-minimum phase systems, i.e., systems with unstable inverse dynamics. Inversion-based feedforward approaches are commonly used for improving tracking…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Siqi Zhou , Mohamed K. Helwa , Angela P. Schoellig

Fast and precise motion control is important for industrial robots in manufacturing applications. However, some collaborative robots sacrifice precision for safety, particular for high motion speed. The performance degradation is caused by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Shuyang Chen , John T. Wen

Reinforcement learning (RL) approaches based on Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) are predominantly applied in the robot joint space, often relying on limited task-specific information and partial awareness of the 3D environment. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Bingkun Huang , Yuhe Gong , Zewen Yang , Tianyu Ren , Luis Figueredo

This paper tackles the task of goal-conditioned dynamic manipulation of deformable objects. This task is highly challenging due to its complex dynamics (introduced by object deformation and high-speed action) and strict task requirements…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Cheng Chi , Benjamin Burchfiel , Eric Cousineau , Siyuan Feng , Shuran Song