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most citedCombining Parameter Identification and Trajectory Optimization: Real-time Planning for Information Gain

3 citations · 5 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.RO2023

The ReSWARM Microgravity Flight Experiments: Planning, Control, and Model Estimation for On-Orbit Close Proximity Operations

Bryce Doerr, Keenan Albee, Monica Ekal +2

On-orbit close proximity operations involve robotic spacecraft maneuvering and making decisions for a growing number of mission scenarios demanding autonomy, including on-orbit ass…

cs.RO2022

The RATTLE Motion Planning Algorithm for Robust Online Parametric Model Improvement with On-Orbit Validation

Keenan Albee, Monica Ekal, Brian Coltin +3

Certain forms of uncertainty that robotic systems encounter can be explicitly learned within the context of a known model, like parametric model uncertainties such as mass and mome…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Symplectic Momentum Neural Networks -- Using Discrete Variational Mechanics as a prior in Deep Learning

Saul Santos, Monica Ekal, Rodrigo Ventura

With deep learning gaining attention from the research community for prediction and control of real physical systems, learning important representations is becoming now more than e…

cs.RO2021

Online Information-Aware Motion Planning with Inertial Parameter Learning for Robotic Free-Flyers

Monica Ekal, Keenan Albee, Brian Coltin +3

Space free-flyers like the Astrobee robots currently operating aboard the International Space Station must operate with inherent system uncertainties. Parametric uncertainties like…

cs.RO2021★ 1 cited

Safe and Uncertainty-Aware Robotic Motion Planning Techniques for Agile On-Orbit Assembly

Bryce Doerr, Keenan Albee, Monica Ekal +2

As access to space and robotic autonomy capabilities move forward, there is simultaneously a growing interest in deploying large, complex space structures to provide new on-orbit c…

cs.RO2019★ 3 cited

Combining Parameter Identification and Trajectory Optimization: Real-time Planning for Information Gain

Keenan Albee, Monica Ekal, Rodrigo Ventura +1

Robotic systems often operate with uncertainties in their dynamics, for example, unknown inertial properties. Broadly, there are two approaches for controlling uncertain systems: d…

cs.RO2018

An Energy Balance Based Method for Parameter Identification of a Free-Flying Robot Grasping An Unknown Object

Monica Ekal, Rodrigo Ventura

The estimation of inertial parameters of a robotic system is crucial for better trajectory tracking performance, specially when model-based controllers are used for carrying out pr…