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Model predictive control (MPC) is a promising approach for the lateral and longitudinal control of autonomous vehicles. However, the parameterization of the MPC with respect to high-level requirements such as passenger comfort as well as…
Autonomous robots are widely utilized for mapping and exploration tasks due to their cost-effectiveness. Multi-robot systems offer scalability and efficiency, especially in terms of the number of robots deployed in more complex…
We propose a Stochastic MPC (SMPC) approach for autonomous driving which incorporates multi-modal, interaction-aware predictions of surrounding vehicles. For each mode, vehicle motion predictions are obtained by a control model described…
Image-Based Visual Servoing (IBVS) provides an efficient vision-guided control paradigm for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by directly regulating image-space errors. However, conventional IBVS controllers are vulnerable to two critical…
Autonomous vehicles that operate in urban environments shall comply with existing rules and reason about the interactions with other decision-making agents. In this paper, we introduce a decentralized and communication-free…
This paper proposes an interaction and safety-aware motion-planning method for an autonomous vehicle in uncertain multi-vehicle traffic environments. The method integrates the ability of the interaction-aware interacting multiple model…
This paper presents Residual Koopman MPC (RK-MPC), a Koopman-based, data-driven model predictive control framework for quadruped locomotion that improves prediction fidelity while preserving real-time tractability. RK-MPC augments a nominal…
Planar pushing remains a challenging research topic, where building the dynamic model of the interaction is the core issue. Even an accurate analytical dynamic model is inherently unstable because physics parameters such as inertia and…
Safe decision-making algorithms for control of mobile robots often require the existence of feedback to verify the safety of proposed actions. This feedback is assumed to be directly available during the development or deployment of the…
Navigating safely in dynamic and uncertain environments is challenging due to uncertainties in perception and motion. This letter presents the Chance-Constrained Unscented Model Predictive Path Integral (C2U-MPPI) framework, a robust…
Snake robots, comprised of sequentially connected joint actuators, have recently gained increasing attention in the industrial field, like life detection in narrow space. Such robots can navigate through the complex environment via the…
In vehicle trajectory tracking tasks, the simplest approach is the Pure Pursuit (PP) Control. However, this single-point preview tracking strategy fails to consider vehicle model constraints, compromising driving safety. Model Predictive…
Prediction models in mobility and transportation maintenance systems have been dramatically improved through using machine learning methods. This paper proposes novel machine learning models for intelligent road inspection. The traditional…
The deployment of learning-based models in safety-critical control systems demands mathematical guarantees that standard regression architectures cannot provide. This paper presents an integrated framework that bridges Neural Ordinary…
Sampling-based kinodynamic motion planners (SKMPs) are powerful in finding collision-free trajectories for high-dimensional systems under differential constraints. Time-informed set (TIS) can provide the heuristic search domain to…
We present a general approach for controlling robotic systems that make and break contact with their environments. Contact-implicit model predictive control (CI-MPC) generalizes linear MPC to contact-rich settings by utilizing a bi-level…
Many real-world applications require legged robots to be able to carry variable payloads. Model-based controllers such as model predictive control (MPC) have become the de facto standard in research for controlling these systems. However,…
Robot navigation within complex environments requires precise state estimation and localization to ensure robust and safe operations. For ambulating mobile robots like robot snakes, traditional methods for sensing require multiple embedded…
Applying model predictive control on embedded systems remains challenging due to the high computational cost of solving optimal control problems. To address this limitation, computationally efficient Gaussian process approximations of the…
The control of legged robots, particularly humanoid and quadruped robots, presents significant challenges due to their high-dimensional and nonlinear dynamics. While linear systems can be effectively controlled using methods like Model…