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PoSafeNet: Safe Learning with Poset-Structured Neural Nets
Kiwan Wong, Wei Xiao, Daniela Rus
Safe learning is essential for deploying learningbased controllers in safety-critical robotic systems, yet existing approaches often enforce multiple safety constraints uniformly o…
Holistic Surgical Phase Recognition with Hierarchical Input Dependent State Space Models
Haoyang Wu, Tsun-Hsuan Wang, Mathias Lechner +7
Surgical workflow analysis is essential in robot-assisted surgeries, yet the long duration of such procedures poses significant challenges for comprehensive video analysis. Recent…
DataS^3: Dataset Subset Selection for Specialization
Neha Hulkund, Alaa Maalouf, Levi Cai +15
In many real-world machine learning (ML) applications (e.g. detecting broken bones in x-ray images, detecting species in camera traps), in practice models need to perform well on s…
Flex: End-to-End Text-Instructed Visual Navigation from Foundation Model Features
Makram Chahine, Alex Quach, Alaa Maalouf +2
End-to-end learning directly maps sensory inputs to actions, creating highly integrated and efficient policies for complex robotics tasks. However, such models often struggle to ge…
Optical Flow Matters: an Empirical Comparative Study on Fusing Monocular Extracted Modalities for Better Steering
Fouad Makiyeh, Mark Bastourous, Anass Bairouk +7
Autonomous vehicle navigation is a key challenge in artificial intelligence, requiring robust and accurate decision-making processes. This research introduces a new end-to-end meth…
Human Insights Driven Latent Space for Different Driving Perspectives: A Unified Encoder for Efficient Multi-Task Inference
Huy-Dung Nguyen, Anass Bairouk, Mirjana Maras +6
Autonomous driving systems require a comprehensive understanding of the environment, achieved by extracting visual features essential for perception, planning, and control. However…
ABNet: Attention BarrierNet for Safe and Scalable Robot Learning
Wei Xiao, Tsun-Hsuan Wang, Daniela Rus
Safe learning is central to AI-enabled robots where a single failure may lead to catastrophic results. Barrier-based method is one of the dominant approaches for safe robot learnin…
DiffuseBot: Breeding Soft Robots With Physics-Augmented Generative Diffusion Models
Tsun-Hsuan Wang, Juntian Zheng, Pingchuan Ma +6
Nature evolves creatures with a high complexity of morphological and behavioral intelligence, meanwhile computational methods lag in approaching that diversity and efficacy. Co-opt…
Uncertainty-aware Language Modeling for Selective Question Answering
Qi Yang, Shreya Ravikumar, Fynn Schmitt-Ulms +9
We present an automatic large language model (LLM) conversion approach that produces uncertainty-aware LLMs capable of estimating uncertainty with every prediction. Our approach is…
Safe Control for Soft-Rigid Robots with Self-Contact using Control Barrier Functions
Zach J. Patterson, Wei Xiao, Emily Sologuren +1
Incorporating both flexible and rigid components in robot designs offers a unique solution to the limitations of traditional rigid robotics by enabling both compliance and strength…
Drive Anywhere: Generalizable End-to-end Autonomous Driving with Multi-modal Foundation Models
Tsun-Hsuan Wang, Alaa Maalouf, Wei Xiao +5
As autonomous driving technology matures, end-to-end methodologies have emerged as a leading strategy, promising seamless integration from perception to control via deep learning.…
Local Non-Cooperative Games with Principled Player Selection for Scalable Motion Planning
Makram Chahine, Roya Firoozi, Wei Xiao +2
Game-theoretic motion planners are a powerful tool for the control of interactive multi-agent robot systems. Indeed, contrary to predict-then-plan paradigms, game-theoretic planner…
Safe Neural Control for Non-Affine Control Systems with Differentiable Control Barrier Functions
Wei Xiao, Ross Allen, Daniela Rus
This paper addresses the problem of safety-critical control for non-affine control systems. It has been shown that optimizing quadratic costs subject to state and control constrain…