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This paper concerns applications of a recently-developed output-tracking technique to trajectory control of autonomous vehicles. The technique is based on three principles: Newton-Raphson flow for solving algebraic equations,output…
Recent advances in sensor and mobile devices have enabled an unprecedented increase in the availability and collection of urban trajectory data, thus increasing the demand for more efficient ways to manage and analyze the data being…
Effort estimation is a key factor for software project success, defined as delivering software of agreed quality and functionality within schedule and budget. Traditionally, effort estimation has been used for planning and tracking project…
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We study a trajectory analysis problem we call the Trajectory Capture Problem (TCP), in which, for a given input set ${\cal T}$ of trajectories in the plane, and an integer $k\geq 2$, we seek to compute a set of $k$ points (``portals'') to…
A research frontier has emerged in scientific computation, wherein numerical error is regarded as a source of epistemic uncertainty that can be modelled. This raises several statistical challenges, including the design of statistical…
Precision tuning or customized precision number representations is emerging, in these recent years, as one of the most promising techniques that has a positive impact on the footprint of programs concerning energy consumption, bandwidth…
Stroking a path is one of the two basic rendering operations in vector graphics standards (e.g., PostScript, PDF, SVG). We survey path stroking rendering results from real-world software implementations of path stroking for anecdotal…
In this paper the computational aspects of probability calculations for dynamical partial sum expressions are discussed. Such dynamical partial sum expressions have many important applications, and examples are provided in the fields of…
Symbolic execution is a powerful program analysis technique that allows for the systematic exploration of all program paths. Path explosion, where the number of states to track becomes unwieldy, is one of the biggest challenges hindering…
Numerical software are widely used in safety-critical systems such as aircrafts, satellites, car engines and so on, facilitating dynamics control of such systems in real time, it is therefore absolutely necessary to verify their…
Widespread development of driverless vehicles has led to the formation of autonomous racing, where technological development is accelerated by the high speeds and competitive environment of motorsport. A particular challenge for an…
Most decision and optimization problems encountered in practice fall into one of two categories with respect to any particular solving method or algorithm: either the problem is solved quickly (easy) or else demands an impractically long…
Forecasting the behavior of other agents is an integral part of the modern robotic autonomy stack, especially in safety-critical scenarios with human-robot interaction, such as autonomous driving. In turn, there has been a significant…
We consider a coordinated complexity-aware 4D trajectory planning problem in this paper. A case study of multiple aircraft traversing through a sector that contains a network of airways and waypoints is utilized to illustrate the model and…
This paper presents a tutorial overview of path integral (PI) control approaches for stochastic optimal control and trajectory optimization. We concisely summarize the theoretical development of path integral control to compute a solution…
Trajectory computing is a pivotal domain encompassing trajectory data management and mining, garnering widespread attention due to its crucial role in various practical applications such as location services, urban traffic, and public…
First-order operator splitting methods are ubiquitous among many fields through science and engineering, such as inverse problems, signal/image processing, statistics, data science and machine learning, to name a few. In this paper, we…
This note briefly introduces the computed torque control method for trajectory tracking. The method is applicable to fully actuated robots, i.e, those whose inverse dynamics can be solved for any feasible acceleration. This includes many…
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