8 papers
Safe Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation via Combined Model and Learning-based Control
Alexander Schperberg, Yeping Wang, Stefano Di Cairano
Simultaneous locomotion and manipulation enables robots to interact with their environment beyond the constraints of a fixed base. However, coordinating legged locomotion with arm…
Set-based Optimal, Robust, and Resilient Control with Applications to Autonomous Precision Landing
Abhinav G. Kamath, Abraham P. Vinod, Purnanand Elango +2
We present a real-time-capable set-based framework for closed-loop predictive control of autonomous systems using tools from computational geometry, dynamic programming, and convex…
Successive Convexification for Passively-Safe Spacecraft Rendezvous on Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit
Purnanand Elango, Abraham P. Vinod, Kenji Kitamura +3
We present an optimization-based approach for fuel-efficient spacecraft rendezvous to the Gateway, a space station that will be deployed on a near rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) aro…
Simultaneous Collision Detection and Force Estimation for Dynamic Quadrupedal Locomotion
Ziyi Zhou, Stefano Di Cairano, Yebin Wang +1
In this paper we address the simultaneous collision detection and force estimation problem for quadrupedal locomotion using joint encoder information and the robot dynamics only. W…
Data-driven Spatial Classification using Multi-Arm Bandits for Monitoring with Energy-Constrained Mobile Robots
Xiaoshan Lin, Siddharth Nayak, Stefano Di Cairano +1
We consider the spatial classification problem for monitoring using data collected by a coordinated team of mobile robots. Such classification problems arise in several application…
Mobility, Communication and Computation Aware Federated Learning for Internet of Vehicles
Md Ferdous Pervej, Jianlin Guo, Kyeong Jin Kim +7
While privacy concerns entice connected and automated vehicles to incorporate on-board federated learning (FL) solutions, an integrated vehicle-to-everything communication with het…
Autonomous Vehicle Parking in Dynamic Environments: An Integrated System with Prediction and Motion Planning
Jessica Leu, Yebin Wang, Masayoshi Tomizuka +1
This paper presents an integrated motion planning system for autonomous vehicle (AV) parking in the presence of other moving vehicles. The proposed system includes 1) a hybrid envi…
PRESAS: Block-Structured Preconditioning of Iterative Solvers within a Primal Active-Set Method for fast MPC
Rien Quirynen, Stefano Di Cairano
Model predictive control (MPC) for linear dynamical systems requires solving an optimal control structured quadratic program (QP) at each sampling instant. This paper proposes a pr…