4 papers
Learning to Play Cup-and-Ball with Noisy Camera Observations
Monimoy Bujarbaruah, Tony Zheng, Akhil Shetty +2
Playing the cup-and-ball game is an intriguing task for robotics research since it abstracts important problem characteristics including system nonlinearity, contact forces and pre…
Safety Challenges for Autonomous Vehicles in the Absence of Connectivity
Akhil Shetty, Mengqiao Yu, Alex Kurzhanskiy +3
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are promoted as a technology that will create a future with effortless driving and virtually no traffic accidents. AV companies claim that, when fully dev…
Optimal Resource Procurement and the Price of Causality
Sen Li, Akhil Shetty, Kameshwar Poolla +1
This paper studies the problem of procuring diverse resources in a forward market to cover a set of uncertain demand signals . We consider two scenarios: (a) $\bf{…
Non-asymptotic Error Bounds For Constant Stepsize Stochastic Approximation For Tracking Mobile Agents
Bhumesh Kumar, Vivek Borkar, Akhil Shetty
This work revisits the constant stepsize stochastic approximation algorithm for tracking a slowly moving target and obtains a bound for the tracking error that is valid for the ent…