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Planning problems in partially observable environments cannot be solved directly with convolutional networks and require some form of memory. But, even memory networks with sophisticated addressing schemes are unable to learn intelligent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Arbaaz Khan , Clark Zhang , Nikolay Atanasov , Konstantinos Karydis , Vijay Kumar , Daniel D. Lee

This work is concerned with the problem of planning trajectories and assigning tasks for a Multi-Agent System (MAS) comprised of differential drive robots. We propose a multirate hierarchical control structure that employs a planner based…

Robotic manipulation with Vision-Language-Action models requires efficient inference over long-horizon multi-modal context, where attention to dense visual tokens dominates computational cost. Existing methods optimize inference speed by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Xiaohuan Pei , Yuxing Chen , Siyu Xu , Yunke Wang , Yuheng Shi , Chang Xu

This paper investigates autonomous vehicle (AV) platoon control under uncertain dynamics and intermittent communication, which remains a critical challenge in intelligent transportation systems. To address these issues, this paper proposes…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Zihan Li , Ziming Wang , Chenning Liu , Xin Wang

Constraint-based control approaches offer a flexible way to specify robotic manipulation tasks and execute them on robots with many degrees of freedom. However, the specification of task constraints and their associated priorities usually…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Dennis Mronga , Frank Kirchner

With the growing phase of artificial intelligence and autonomous learning, the self-driving car is one of the promising area of research and emerging as a center of focus for automobile industries. Behavioral cloning is the process of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Uppala Sumanth , Narinder Singh Punn , Sanjay Kumar Sonbhadra , Sonali Agarwal

This work presents an event-triggered switching control framework for a class of nonlinear underactuated multi-channel systems with input constraints. These systems are inspired by cooperative manipulation tasks involving underactuation,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Dongjae Lee , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , H. Jin Kim

This paper proposes a transition system abstraction framework for neural network dynamical system models to enhance the model interpretability, with applications to complex dynamical systems such as human behavior learning and verification.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-20 Yejiang Yang , Zihao Mo , Hoang-Dung Tran , Weiming Xiang

We present an online multi-task learning approach for adaptive nonlinear control, which we call Online Meta-Adaptive Control (OMAC). The goal is to control a nonlinear system subject to adversarial disturbance and unknown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Guanya Shi , Kamyar Azizzadenesheli , Michael O'Connell , Soon-Jo Chung , Yisong Yue

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…

Transfer learning has the potential to reduce the burden of data collection and to decrease the unavoidable risks of the training phase. In this letter, we introduce a multirobot, multitask transfer learning framework that allows a system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Karime Pereida , Mohamed K. Helwa , Angela P. Schoellig

For safe and efficient planning and control in autonomous driving, we need a driving policy which can achieve desirable driving quality in long-term horizon with guaranteed safety and feasibility. Optimization-based approaches, such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Liting Sun , Cheng Peng , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Neural networks have become state-of-the-art for computer vision problems because of their ability to efficiently model complex functions from large amounts of data. While neural networks can be shown to perform well empirically for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Kyle D. Julian , Ritchie Lee , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

As autonomous vehicles move from a simplified research setting to practical use, there exists a large gap between the dynamic behavior of a human driving and an autonomous system. Risk-aware behavior needs to naturally develop in order to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jason Gibson , Bogdan Vlahov , Patrick Spieler , Evangelos A. Theodorou

In this paper we explore a neural control architecture that is both biologically plausible, and capable of fully autonomous learning. It consists of feedback controllers that learn to achieve a desired state by selecting the errors that…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-03-23 Sergio Verduzco-Flores , William Dorrell , Erik DeSchutter

The abundance of process operating data in modern industries, along with the rapid advancement of learning techniques, has led to a paradigm shift towards data-centric analysis and control. However, integrating machine learning with control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Yitao Yan , Yu Tong , Jie Bao , Wei Wang

When a robotic system is redundant with respect to a given task, the remaining degrees of freedom can be used to satisfy additional objectives. With current robotic systems having more and more degrees of freedom, this can lead to an entire…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Gianluca Garofalo

We propose a hierarchical learning architecture for predictive control in unknown environments. We consider a constrained nonlinear dynamical system and assume the availability of state-input trajectories solving control tasks in different…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-16 Charlott Vallon , Francesco Borrelli

This paper presents a method to leverage arbitrary neural network architecture for control variates. Control variates are crucial in reducing the variance of Monte Carlo integration, but they hinge on finding a function that both correlates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Zilu Li , Guandao Yang , Qingqing Zhao , Xi Deng , Leonidas Guibas , Bharath Hariharan , Gordon Wetzstein

This paper presents a data-driven decentralized trajectory optimization approach for multi-robot motion planning in dynamic environments. When navigating in a shared space, each robot needs accurate motion predictions of neighboring robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Hai Zhu , Francisco Martinez Claramunt , Bruno Brito , Javier Alonso-Mora