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most citedVP-STO: Via-point-based Stochastic Trajectory Optimization for Reactive Robot Behavior

2 citations · 2 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.RO2026

Diffusion-based Inverse Model of a Distributed Tactile Sensor for Object Pose Estimation

Ante Marić, Giammarco Caroleo, Alessandro Albini +3

Tactile sensing provides a promising sensing modality for object pose estimation in manipulation settings where visual information is limited due to occlusion or environmental effe…

cs.RO2025

Diffusion-based Inverse Observation Model for Artificial Skin

Ante Maric, Julius Jankowski, Giammarco Caroleo +3

Contact-based estimation of object pose is challenging due to discontinuities and ambiguous observations that can correspond to multiple possible system states. This multimodality…

cs.RO2024

A Retrospective on the Robot Air Hockey Challenge: Benchmarking Robust, Reliable, and Safe Learning Techniques for Real-world Robotics

Puze Liu, Jonas Günster, Niklas Funk +17

Machine learning methods have a groundbreaking impact in many application domains, but their application on real robotic platforms is still limited. Despite the many challenges ass…

cs.RO2024

Distilling Contact Planning for Fast Trajectory Optimization in Robot Air Hockey

Julius Jankowski, Ante Marić, Puze Liu +3

Robot control through contact is challenging as it requires reasoning over long horizons and discontinuous system dynamics. Highly dynamic tasks such as Air Hockey additionally req…

cs.RO2024

Robust Pushing: Exploiting Quasi-static Belief Dynamics and Contact-informed Optimization

Julius Jankowski, Lara Brudermüller, Nick Hawes +1

Non-prehensile manipulation such as pushing is typically subject to uncertain, non-smooth dynamics. However, modeling the uncertainty of the dynamics typically results in intractab…

cs.RO2024

CC-VPSTO: Chance-Constrained Via-Point-Based Stochastic Trajectory Optimisation for Online Robot Motion Planning under Uncertainty

Lara Brudermüller, Guillaume Berger, Julius Jankowski +3

Reliable robot autonomy hinges on decision-making systems that account for uncertainty without imposing overly conservative restrictions on the robot's action space. We introduce C…

cs.RO2024

AiRLIHockey: Highly Reactive Contact Control and Stochastic Optimal Shooting

Julius Jankowski, Ante Marić, Sylvain Calinon

Air hockey is a highly reactive game which requires the player to quickly reason over stochastic puck and contact dynamics. We implement a hierarchical framework which combines sto…

cs.RO2022★ 2 cited

VP-STO: Via-point-based Stochastic Trajectory Optimization for Reactive Robot Behavior

Julius Jankowski, Lara Brudermüller, Nick Hawes +1

Achieving reactive robot behavior in complex dynamic environments is still challenging as it relies on being able to solve trajectory optimization problems quickly enough, such tha…

cs.RO2022

Reactive Anticipatory Robot Skills with Memory

Hakan Girgin, Julius Jankowski, Sylvain Calinon

Optimal control in robotics has been increasingly popular in recent years and has been applied in many applications involving complex dynamical systems. Closed-loop optimal control…

cs.RO2020

Learning Constrained Distributions of Robot Configurations with Generative Adversarial Network

Teguh Santoso Lembono, Emmanuel Pignat, Julius Jankowski +1

In high dimensional robotic system, the manifold of the valid configuration space often has a complex shape, especially under constraints such as end-effector orientation or static…