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VICAR: Video Imitation with Contact-Aware Retargeting for Humanoid Interactive Skills
Dvij Kalaria, Bike Zhang, S. Shankar Sastry
Third-person human videos offer a scalable alternative to task-specific reward engineering, teleoperation, and manually scripted demonstrations for humanoid loco-manipulation. Rece…
DreamControl-v2: Simpler and Scalable Autonomous Humanoid Skills via Trainable Guided Diffusion Priors
Sudarshan Harithas, Sangkyung Kwak, Pushkal Katara +6
Developing robust autonomous loco-manipulation skills for humanoids remains an open problem in robotics. While RL has been applied successfully to legged locomotion, applying it to…
DreamControl: Human-Inspired Whole-Body Humanoid Control for Scene Interaction via Guided Diffusion
Dvij Kalaria, Sudarshan S Harithas, Pushkal Katara +7
We introduce DreamControl, a novel methodology for learning autonomous whole-body humanoid skills. DreamControl leverages the strengths of diffusion models and Reinforcement Learni…
α-RACER: Real-Time Algorithm for Game-Theoretic Motion Planning and Control in Autonomous Racing using Near-Potential Function
Dvij Kalaria, Chinmay Maheshwari, Shankar Sastry
Autonomous racing extends beyond the challenge of controlling a racecar at its physical limits. Professional racers employ strategic maneuvers to outwit other competing opponents t…
Disturbance Observer-based Control Barrier Functions with Residual Model Learning for Safe Reinforcement Learning
Dvij Kalaria, Qin Lin, John M. Dolan
Reinforcement learning (RL) agents need to explore their environment to learn optimal behaviors and achieve maximum rewards. However, exploration can be risky when training RL dire…
Agile Mobility with Rapid Online Adaptation via Meta-learning and Uncertainty-aware MPPI
Dvij Kalaria, Haoru Xue, Wenli Xiao +3
Modern non-linear model-based controllers require an accurate physics model and model parameters to be able to control mobile robots at their limits. Also, due to surface slipping…
AnyCar to Anywhere: Learning Universal Dynamics Model for Agile and Adaptive Mobility
Wenli Xiao, Haoru Xue, Tony Tao +3
Recent works in the robot learning community have successfully introduced generalist models capable of controlling various robot embodiments across a wide range of tasks, such as n…
WROOM: An Autonomous Driving Approach for Off-Road Navigation
Dvij Kalaria, Shreya Sharma, Sarthak Bhagat +2
Off-road navigation is a challenging problem both at the planning level to get a smooth trajectory and at the control level to avoid flipping over, hitting obstacles, or getting st…
Towards Optimal Head-to-head Autonomous Racing with Curriculum Reinforcement Learning
Dvij Kalaria, Qin Lin, John M. Dolan
Head-to-head autonomous racing is a challenging problem, as the vehicle needs to operate at the friction or handling limits in order to achieve minimum lap times while also activel…
Adaptive Planning and Control with Time-Varying Tire Models for Autonomous Racing Using Extreme Learning Machine
Dvij Kalaria, Qin Lin, John M. Dolan
Autonomous racing is a challenging problem, as the vehicle needs to operate at the friction or handling limits in order to achieve minimum lap times. Autonomous race cars require h…
Towards Safety Assured End-to-End Vision-Based Control for Autonomous Racing
Dvij Kalaria, Qin Lin, John M. Dolan
Autonomous car racing is a challenging task, as it requires precise applications of control while the vehicle is operating at cornering speeds. Traditional autonomous pipelines req…
Delay-aware Robust Control for Safe Autonomous Driving and Racing
Dvij Kalaria, Qin Lin, John M. Dolan
Delays endanger safety of autonomous systems operating in a rapidly changing environment, such as nondeterministic surrounding traffic participants in autonomous driving and high-s…
Local NMPC on Global Optimised Path for Autonomous Racing
Dvij Kalaria, Parv Maheshwari, Animesh Jha +4
The paper presents a strategy for the control of anautonomous racing car on a pre-mapped track. Using a dynamic model of the vehicle, the optimal racing line is computed, taking tr…
Delay-aware Robust Control for Safe Autonomous Driving
Dvij Kalaria, Qin Lin, John M. Dolan
With the advancement of affordable self-driving vehicles using complicated nonlinear optimization but limited computation resources, computation time becomes a matter of concern. O…