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Knowledge of terrain's physical properties inferred from color images can aid in making efficient robotic locomotion plans. However, unlike image classification, it is unintuitive for humans to label image patches with physical properties.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Gabriel B. Margolis , Xiang Fu , Yandong Ji , Pulkit Agrawal

Autonomous exploration allows mobile robots to navigate in initially unknown territories in order to build complete representations of the environments. In many real-life applications, environments often contain dynamic obstacles which can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Valentina Cavinato , Thomas Eppenberger , Dina Youakim , Roland Siegwart , Renaud Dubé

PySINDy is a Python package for the discovery of governing dynamical systems models from data. In particular, PySINDy provides tools for applying the sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy) (Brunton et al. 2016) approach to…

Data-driven discovery of model equations is a powerful approach for understanding the behavior of dynamical systems in many scientific fields. In particular, the ability to learn mathematical models from data would benefit systems biology,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 G. Pillonetto , A. Giaretta , A. Aravkin , M. Bisiacco , T. Elston

Accurate localization is a critical requirement for most robotic tasks. The main body of existing work is focused on passive localization in which the motions of the robot are assumed given, abstracting from their influence on sampling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Daniel Honerkamp , Suresh Guttikonda , Abhinav Valada

This paper proposes a novel framework for active fault diagnosis and parameter estimation in linear systems operating in closed-loop, subject to unknown but bounded faults. The approach integrates set-membership identification with a cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Annalena Daniels , Johannes Teutsch , Fabian Kleindienst , Marion Leibold , Dirk Wollherr

Sparse dynamics identification is an essential tool for discovering interpretable physical models and enabling efficient control in engineering systems. However, existing methods rely on batch learning with full historical data, limiting…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Jilan Mei , Tengjie Zheng , Lin Cheng , Shengping Gong , Xu Huang

Recent advances in machine learning have dramatically improved our ability to model language, vision, and other high-dimensional data, yet they continue to struggle with one of the most fundamental aspects of biological systems: movement.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Melanie Segado , Felipe Parodi , Jordan K. Matelsky , Michael L. Platt , Eva B. Dyer , Konrad P. Kording

This paper studies the optimal state estimation for a dynamic system, whose transfer function can be nonlinear and the input noise can be of arbitrary distribution. Our algorithm differs from the conventional extended Kalman filter (EKF)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-22 Xin Liang , Yi Jiang

We study fault identification in discrete-time nonlinear systems subject to additive Gaussian white noise. We introduce a Bayesian framework that explicitly accounts for unmodeled faults under reasonable assumptions. Our approach hinges on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Chun-Wei Kong , Jay McMahon , Morteza Lahijanian

Learning governing equations from data is central to understanding the behavior of physical systems across diverse scientific disciplines, including physics, biology, and engineering. The Sindy algorithm has proven effective in leveraging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Gianluigi Pillonetto , Akram Yazdani , Aleksandr Aravkin

This technical note considers the sampling of outcomes that provide the greatest amount of information about the structure of underlying world models. This generalisation furnishes a principled approach to structure learning under a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-25 Karl Friston , Lancelot Da Costa , Alexander Tschantz , Conor Heins , Christopher Buckley , Tim Verbelen , Thomas Parr

We study the problem of rapidly identifying contact dynamics of unknown objects in partially known environments. The key innovation of our method is a novel formulation of the contact dynamics estimation problem as the joint estimation of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Jinhoo Kim , Yifan Zhu , Aaron Dollar

We present a flexible data-driven method for dynamical system analysis that does not require explicit model discovery. The method is rooted in well-established techniques for approximating the Koopman operator from data and is implemented…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Jason J. Bramburger , Giovanni Fantuzzi

Active learning is proposed for selection of the next operating points in the design of experiments, for identifying linear parameter-varying systems. We extend existing approaches found in literature to multiple-input multiple-output…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Robert Chin , Alejandro I. Maass , Nalika Ulapane , Chris Manzie , Iman Shames , Dragan Nešić , Jonathan E. Rowe , Hayato Nakada

The unscented Kalman filter is an algorithm capable of handling nonlinear scenarios. Uncertainty in process noise covariance may decrease the filter estimation performance or even lead to its divergence. Therefore, it is important to adjust…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Amit Levy , Itzik Klein

Drawing inspiration from animal navigation strategies, we introduce a novel computational model for navigation and mapping, rooted in biologically inspired principles. Animals exhibit remarkable navigation abilities by efficiently using…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Daria de Tinguy , Tim Verbelen , Bart Dhoedt

Topological alignments and snakes are used in image processing, particularly in locating object boundaries. Both of them have their own advantages and limitations. To improve the overall image boundary detection system, we focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-06-03 Ashraf A. Aly , Safaai Bin Deris , Nazar Zaki

Active inference is an account of cognition and behavior in complex systems which brings together action, perception, and learning under the theoretical mantle of Bayesian inference. Active inference has seen growing applications in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Conor Heins , Beren Millidge , Daphne Demekas , Brennan Klein , Karl Friston , Iain Couzin , Alexander Tschantz

AI has the potential to transform scientific discovery by analyzing vast datasets with little human effort. However, current workflows often do not provide the accuracy or statistical guarantees that are needed. We introduce active…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Max Hamilton , Jinlin Lai , Wenlong Zhao , Subhransu Maji , Daniel Sheldon