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The Minkowski Wrap: A Relativistic Speed Limiter
Nicoletta Prencipe, Başak Sakçak, Steven M. LaValle
In special relativity, a particle can experience constant acceleration, but at the same time, its motion is constrained by the velocity limit imposed by the speed of light . Ins…
An Information-Space Perspective to Scene Graph Sufficiency for Robotic Task Planning
Başak Sakçak, Francesco Verdoja
Planning in complex environments requires task specifications grounded in representations that capture objects, relations, and affordances; scene graphs meet this need, but their s…
Planning Smooth and Safe Control Laws for a Unicycle Robot Among Obstacles
Aref Amiri, Basak Sakcak, Steven M. LaValle
This paper presents a framework for safe navigation of a unicycle point robot to a goal position in an environment populated with obstacles from almost any admissible state, consid…
Relating Reinforcement Learning to Dynamic Programming-Based Planning
Filip V. Georgiev, Kalle G. Timperi, Başak Sakçak +1
This paper bridges some of the gap between optimal planning and reinforcement learning (RL), both of which share roots in dynamic programming applied to sequential decision making…
Mobile Robot Localization Using a Novel Whisker-Like Sensor
Prasanna K. Routray, Basak Sakcak, Steven M. LaValle +1
Whisker-like touch sensors offer unique advantages for short-range perception in environments where visual and long-range sensing are unreliable, such as confined, cluttered, or lo…