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Effective human-robot collaboration requires informed anticipation. The robot must anticipate the human's actions, but also react quickly and intuitively when its predictions are wrong. The robot must plan its actions to account for the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Adam Fishman , Chris Paxton , Wei Yang , Dieter Fox , Byron Boots , Nathan Ratliff

The combination of policy search and deep neural networks holds the promise of automating a variety of decision-making tasks. Model Predictive Control (MPC) provides robust solutions to robot control tasks by making use of a dynamical model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Yunlong Song , Davide Scaramuzza

This paper presents a deep learning based model predictive control algorithm for control affine nonlinear discrete time systems with matched and bounded state dependent uncertainties of unknown structure. Since the structure of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Prabhat K. Mishra , Mateus V. Gasparino , Andres E. B. Velsasquez , Girish Chowdhary

In many mechatronic applications, controller input costs are negligible and time optimality is of great importance to maximize the productivity by executing fast positioning maneuvers. As a result, the obtained control input has mostly a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Joe Ismail , Steven Liu

This letter presents a new intelligent control scheme for the accurate trajectory tracking of flexible link manipulators. The proposed approach is mainly based on a sliding mode controller for underactuated systems with an embedded…

Electric quadruped robots used in outdoor exploration are susceptible to leg-related electrical or mechanical failures. Unexpected joint power loss and joint locking can immediately pose a falling threat. Typically, controllers lack the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Taixian Hou , Jiaxin Tu , Xiaofei Gao , Zhiyan Dong , Peng Zhai , Lihua Zhang

When designing control strategies for differential-drive mobile robots, one standard tool is the consideration of a point at a fixed distance along a line orthogonal to the wheel axis instead of the full pose of the vehicle. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Paul Glotfelter , Magnus Egerstedt

Binary on/off thrusters are commonly used for spacecraft attitude and position control during proximity operations. However, their discrete nature poses challenges for conventional continuous control methods. The control of these discrete…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Franek Stark , Jakob Middelberg , Shubham Vyas

We address the challenge of enabling bipedal robots to traverse rough terrain by developing probabilistically safe planning and control strategies that ensure dynamic feasibility and centroidal robustness under terrain uncertainty.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Kasidit Muenprasitivej , Ye Zhao , Glen Chou

Model mismatch often poses challenges in model-based controller design. This paper investigates model predictive control (MPC) of uncertain linear systems with input constraints, focusing on stability and closed-loop infinite-horizon…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Changrui Liu , Shengling Shi , Bart De Schutter

Achieving both target accuracy and robustness in dynamic maneuvers with long flight phases, such as high or long jumps, has been a significant challenge for legged robots. To address this challenge, we propose a novel learning-based control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Chuong Nguyen , Abdullah Altawaitan , Thai Duong , Nikolay Atanasov , Quan Nguyen

Predictive planning is a key capability for robots to efficiently and safely navigate populated environments. Particularly in densely crowded scenes, with uncertain human motion predictions, predictive path planning, and control can become…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Till Hielscher , Lukas Heuer , Frederik Wulle , Luigi Palmieri

Passivity is necessary for robots to fluidly collaborate and interact with humans physically. Nevertheless, due to the unconstrained nature of passivity-based impedance control laws, the robot is vulnerable to infeasible and unsafe…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Zhiquan Zhang , Tianyu Li , Nadia Figueroa

This work develops a robust nonlinear Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework for path tracking in autonomous vehicles operating at the limits of handling utilizing a Control Contraction Metric (CCM) derived from a perturbed dynamic single…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Joscha F. Bongard , Valentin L. Krieger , Boris Lohmann

This paper presents a control framework for magnetically actuated cellbots, which combines Model Predictive Control (MPC) with Gaussian Processes (GPs) as a disturbance estimator for precise trajectory tracking. To address the challenges…

This letter presents a new predictive control architecture for high-dimensional robotic systems. As opposed to a conventional Model Predictive Control (MPC) approach to locomotion that formulates a hierarchical sequence of optimization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-13 He Li , Robert J. Frei , Patrick M. Wensing

This paper presents a robust adaptive learning Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework for linear systems with parametric uncertainties and additive disturbances performing iterative tasks. The approach refines the parameter estimates…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Hannes Petrenz , Johannes Köhler , Francesco Borrelli

Formation flight is when multiple objects fly together in a coordination. Various automatic control methods have been used for the autonomous execution of formation flight of aerial vehicles. In this paper, the capacity of the model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Harun Celik , Dilara Kilinc

The integration of various power sources, including renewables and electric vehicles, into smart grids is expanding, introducing uncertainties that can result in issues like voltage imbalances, load fluctuations, and power losses. These…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Qi Li , Ye Shi , Yuning Jiang , Yuanming Shi , Haoyu Wang , H. Vincent Poor

This article focuses on the trajectory tracking problem of mobile manipulators (MMs). Firstly, we construct a position and orientation model predictive tracking control (POMPTC) scheme for mobile manipulators. The proposed POMPTC scheme can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Tao Su , Shiqi Zheng