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most citedSample-efficient Cross-Entropy Method for Real-time Planning

25 citations · 30 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

eess.SY2026

Horizon Selection in Physics-Enhanced Neural ODEs: Theoretical Insights and Flux Linkage Application

Giulio Montecchio, Benjamin Hartmann, Sven Reimann +3

The integration horizon during the training plays a critical role in Physics-Enhanced Neural Ordinary Differential Equations. We draw conclusions about horizon extension in the tra…

eess.SY2026

Joint identification of permanent magnet synchronous machine and inverter

Giulio Montecchio, Sven Reimann, Benjamin Hartmann +3

In electric drive modeling, identifying the magnetic flux maps is essential for predicting accurately the torque, parameterizing a controller for tracking the torque or creating a…

cs.RO2024

Learning a Terrain- and Robot-Aware Dynamics Model for Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation

Jan Achterhold, Suresh Guttikonda, Jens U. Kreber +2

Mobile robots should be capable of planning cost-efficient paths for autonomous navigation. Typically, the terrain and robot properties are subject to variations. For instance, pro…

cs.CV2024

Attention Normalization Impacts Cardinality Generalization in Slot Attention

Markus Krimmel, Jan Achterhold, Joerg Stueckler

Object-centric scene decompositions are important representations for downstream tasks in fields such as computer vision and robotics. The recently proposed Slot Attention module,…

cs.RO2023

Context-Conditional Navigation with a Learning-Based Terrain- and Robot-Aware Dynamics Model

Suresh Guttikonda, Jan Achterhold, Haolong Li +2

In autonomous navigation settings, several quantities can be subject to variations. Terrain properties such as friction coefficients may vary over time depending on the location of…

cs.RO2023★ 2 cited

Black-Box vs. Gray-Box: A Case Study on Learning Table Tennis Ball Trajectory Prediction with Spin and Impacts

Jan Achterhold, Philip Tobuschat, Hao Ma +3

In this paper, we present a method for table tennis ball trajectory filtering and prediction. Our gray-box approach builds on a physical model. At the same time, we use data to lea…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Learning Temporally Extended Skills in Continuous Domains as Symbolic Actions for Planning

Jan Achterhold, Markus Krimmel, Joerg Stueckler

Problems which require both long-horizon planning and continuous control capabilities pose significant challenges to existing reinforcement learning agents. In this paper we introd…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Explore the Context: Optimal Data Collection for Context-Conditional Dynamics Models

Jan Achterhold, Joerg Stueckler

In this paper, we learn dynamics models for parametrized families of dynamical systems with varying properties. The dynamics models are formulated as stochastic processes condition…

cs.CV2020

Learning to Identify Physical Parameters from Video Using Differentiable Physics

Rama Krishna Kandukuri, Jan Achterhold, Michael Möller +1

Video representation learning has recently attracted attention in computer vision due to its applications for activity and scene forecasting or vision-based planning and control. V…

cs.LG2020★ 25 cited

Sample-efficient Cross-Entropy Method for Real-time Planning

Cristina Pinneri, Shambhuraj Sawant, Sebastian Blaes +4

Trajectory optimizers for model-based reinforcement learning, such as the Cross-Entropy Method (CEM), can yield compelling results even in high-dimensional control tasks and sparse…

cs.LG2020

Planning from Images with Deep Latent Gaussian Process Dynamics

Nathanael Bosch, Jan Achterhold, Laura Leal-Taixé +1

Planning is a powerful approach to control problems with known environment dynamics. In unknown environments the agent needs to learn a model of the system dynamics to make plannin…