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20202026
most citedTransformer-based Model Predictive Control: Trajectory Optimization via Sequence Modeling

44 citations · 59 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

cs.RO2026

GGraph: A GPU-Accelerated Library for Graph-Based Robot Deployment and Learning

Yash Rampuria, Rohan Garg, Daniele Gammelli +1

Autonomous mobile robots require spatial representations that capture geometry and semantics while staying sparse enough for planning in large, unknown environments. Graphs provide…

math.OC2026

PLUTO: An Agentic AI Tool for Interactive Spacecraft Rendezvous Trajectory Design

Eleanor Brosius, Yuji Takubo, Daniele Gammelli +2

Modern space missions require trajectory design methods capable of efficiently adapting to diverse mission objectives and operational constraints. Despite the maturity of non-conve…

cs.RO2026

Filter-Aware Fine-Tuning for Safe Humanoid Whole-Body Tracking

Pranit Mohnot, Christian Helten, Daniele Gammelli +1

Safe whole-body motion is essential for deploying humanoid robots in unstructured environments. Modern humanoid control commonly separates reference specification from execution, w…

cs.RO2026

OrbitTAMP: Grounding Language Models for Task and Motion Planning in Spacecraft Rendezvous

Yuji Takubo, Daniele Gammelli, Marco Pavone +1

Spacecraft rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) are currently planned through an expertise-intensive process in which engineers translate high-level operational intent into sa…

cs.RO2026

Principles of Robot Autonomy

Daniele Gammelli, Joseph Lorenzetti, Katie Luo +2

Autonomous robots are moving rapidly from research labs into everyday life - on roads, in the air, in warehouses, and in space. Robot autonomy is no longer solely an academic pursu…

cs.RO2026

Do Vision-Language-Action Models Mean What They Say? On the Role of Faithfulness in Embodied Reasoning

Matthew Foutter, Matteo Cercola, Lena Wild +4

Embodied Chain-of-Thought has emerged as a promising mechanism to enhance robot decision-making and interpretability in black-box Vision-Language Action (VLA) models. However, whet…

math.OC2026

Semantic Constraint Synthesis for Adaptive Trajectory Optimization via Large Language Models

Eleanor Brosius, Yuji Takubo, Daniele Gammelli +2

Trajectory optimization is a critical component for enabling safe and reliable autonomous operations in space exploration. As space missions increase in frequency, complexity, and…

cs.RO2026

Graph Neural Model Predictive Control for High-Dimensional Systems

Patrick Benito Eberhard, Luis Pabon, Daniele Gammelli +5

The control of high-dimensional systems, such as soft robots, requires models that faithfully capture complex dynamics while remaining computationally tractable. This work presents…

cs.LG2026

Competitive Multi-Operator Reinforcement Learning for Joint Pricing and Fleet Rebalancing in AMoD Systems

Emil Kragh Toft, Carolin Schmidt, Daniele Gammelli +1

Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand (AMoD) systems promise to revolutionize urban transportation by providing affordable on-demand services to meet growing travel demand. However, realis…

cs.RO2025

Language-Conditioned Safe Trajectory Generation for Spacecraft Rendezvous

Yuji Takubo, Arpit Dwivedi, Sukeerth Ramkumar +4

Reliable real-time trajectory generation is essential for future autonomous spacecraft. While recent progress in nonconvex guidance and control is paving the way for onboard autono…

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

GRAND: Guidance, Rebalancing, and Assignment for Networked Dispatch in Multi-Agent Path Finding

Johannes Gaber, Meshal Alharbi, Daniele Gammelli +1

Large robot fleets are now common in warehouses and other logistics settings, where small control gains translate into large operational impacts. In this article, we address task s…

eess.SY2025

Multi-Timescale Model Predictive Control for Slow-Fast Systems

Lukas Schroth, Daniel Morton, Amon Lahr +3

Model Predictive Control (MPC) has established itself as the primary methodology for constrained control, enabling autonomy across diverse applications. While model fidelity is cru…

math.OC2025

Agile Tradespace Exploration for Space Rendezvous Mission Design via Transformers

Yuji Takubo, Daniele Gammelli, Marco Pavone +1

Spacecraft rendezvous enables on-orbit servicing, debris removal, and crewed docking, forming the foundation for a scalable space economy. Designing such missions requires rapid ex…

cs.RO2025

Reproducibility in the Control of Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Systems

Xinling Li, Meshal Alharbi, Daniele Gammelli +7

Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand (AMoD) systems, powered by advances in robotics, control, and Machine Learning (ML), offer a promising paradigm for future urban transportation. AMoD…

cs.LG2025

Learning traffic flows: Graph Neural Networks for Metamodelling Traffic Assignment

Oskar Bohn Lassen, Serio Agriesti, Mohamed Eldafrawi +4

The Traffic Assignment Problem is a fundamental, yet computationally expensive, task in transportation modeling, especially for large-scale networks. Traditional methods require it…

cs.CV2025

Vision Foundation Model Embedding-Based Semantic Anomaly Detection

Max Peter Ronecker, Matthew Foutter, Amine Elhafsi +4

Semantic anomalies are contextually invalid or unusual combinations of familiar visual elements that can cause undefined behavior and failures in system-level reasoning for autonom…

math.OC2025

Robo-Taxi Fleet Coordination with Accelerated High-Capacity Ridepooling

Xinling Li, Daniele Gammelli, Alex Wallar +2

Rapid urbanization has led to a surge of customizable mobility demand in urban areas, which makes on-demand services increasingly popular. On-demand services are flexible while red…

cs.LG2025

Robo-taxi Fleet Coordination at Scale via Reinforcement Learning

Luigi Tresca, Carolin Schmidt, James Harrison +4

Fleets of robo-taxis offering on-demand transportation services, commonly known as Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand (AMoD) systems, hold significant promise for societal benefits, suc…

cs.RO2024★ 44 cited

Transformer-based Model Predictive Control: Trajectory Optimization via Sequence Modeling

Davide Celestini, Daniele Gammelli, Tommaso Guffanti +3

Model predictive control (MPC) has established itself as the primary methodology for constrained control, enabling general-purpose robot autonomy in diverse real-world scenarios. H…

cs.RO2024

Generalizable Spacecraft Trajectory Generation via Multimodal Learning with Transformers

Davide Celestini, Amirhossein Afsharrad, Daniele Gammelli +6

Effective trajectory generation is essential for reliable on-board spacecraft autonomy. Among other approaches, learning-based warm-starting represents an appealing paradigm for so…

cs.LG2024

Offline Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning via Inverse Optimization

Carolin Schmidt, Daniele Gammelli, James Harrison +2

Hierarchical policies enable strong performance in many sequential decision-making problems, such as those with high-dimensional action spaces, those requiring long-horizon plannin…

math.OC2024

Towards Robust Spacecraft Trajectory Optimization via Transformers

Yuji Takubo, Tommaso Guffanti, Daniele Gammelli +2

Future multi-spacecraft missions require robust autonomous trajectory optimization capabilities to ensure safe and efficient rendezvous operations. This capability hinges on solvin…

cs.RO2024★ 2 cited

Space-LLaVA: a Vision-Language Model Adapted to Extraterrestrial Applications

Matthew Foutter, Daniele Gammelli, Justin Kruger +5

Foundation Models (FMs), e.g., large language models, possess attributes of intelligence which offer promise to endow a robot with the contextual understanding necessary to navigat…

eess.SY2023★ 3 cited

Real-time Control of Electric Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Systems via Graph Reinforcement Learning

Aaryan Singhal, Daniele Gammelli, Justin Luke +3

Operators of Electric Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand (E-AMoD) fleets need to make several real-time decisions such as matching available vehicles to ride requests, rebalancing idle…