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FlowDrone: Wind Estimation and Gust Rejection on UAVs Using Fast-Response Hot-Wire Flow Sensors
Nathaniel Simon, Allen Z. Ren, Alexander Piqué +4
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are finding use in applications that place increasing emphasis on robustness to external disturbances including extreme wind. However, traditional m…
Leveraging Language for Accelerated Learning of Tool Manipulation
Allen Z. Ren, Bharat Govil, Tsung-Yen Yang +2
Robust and generalized tool manipulation requires an understanding of the properties and affordances of different tools. We investigate whether linguistic information about a tool…
Failure Prediction with Statistical Guarantees for Vision-Based Robot Control
Alec Farid, David Snyder, Allen Z. Ren +1
We are motivated by the problem of performing failure prediction for safety-critical robotic systems with high-dimensional sensor observations (e.g., vision). Given access to a bla…
Sim-to-Lab-to-Real: Safe Reinforcement Learning with Shielding and Generalization Guarantees
Kai-Chieh Hsu, Allen Z. Ren, Duy Phuong Nguyen +2
Safety is a critical component of autonomous systems and remains a challenge for learning-based policies to be utilized in the real world. In particular, policies learned using rei…