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Publications (7)

cs.RO2025

Meta-Learning Online Dynamics Model Adaptation in Off-Road Autonomous Driving

Jacob Levy, Jason Gibson, Bogdan Vlahov +4

High-speed off-road autonomous driving presents unique challenges due to complex, evolving terrain characteristics and the difficulty of accurately modeling terrain-vehicle interac…

cs.LG2023

Enabling Efficient, Reliable Real-World Reinforcement Learning with Approximate Physics-Based Models

Tyler Westenbroek, Jacob Levy, David Fridovich-Keil

We focus on developing efficient and reliable policy optimization strategies for robot learning with real-world data. In recent years, policy gradient methods have emerged as a pro…

cs.RO2024

Learning to Walk from Three Minutes of Real-World Data with Semi-structured Dynamics Models

Jacob Levy, Tyler Westenbroek, David Fridovich-Keil

Traditionally, model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) methods exploit neural networks as flexible function approximators to represent unknown environment dyn…

cs.GT2024

Active Inverse Learning in Stackelberg Trajectory Games

William Ward, Yue Yu, Jacob Levy +3

Game-theoretic inverse learning is the problem of inferring a player's objectives from their actions. We formulate an inverse learning problem in a Stackelberg game between a leade…

cs.RO2026

Learning All-Terrain Locomotion for a Planetary Rover with Actively Articulated Suspension

Arthur Bouton, Tristan D. Hasseler, Michael Paton +5

This paper presents ERNEST, a four-wheeled planetary rover concept equipped with a two-degree-of-freedom Active Gimbal Suspension that combines yaw and roll actuation to enable whe…

cs.RO2026

Simulation Distillation: Pretraining World Models in Simulation for Rapid Real-World Adaptation

Jacob Levy, Tyler Westenbroek, Kevin Huang +6

Robot learning requires adaptation methods that improve reliably from limited, mixed-quality interaction data. This is especially challenging in long-horizon, contact-rich tasks, w…