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most citedA hierarchical adaptive nonlinear model predictive control approach for maximizing tire force usage in autonomous vehicles

12 citations · 13 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.RO2026

Spatio-Temporal Retrieval-based Priors for Adaptive Computational Teaching in Driving

Deepak Edakkattil Gopinath, Xiongyi Cui, Jonathan DeCastro +2

Learning-based automated coaching systems for complex motor tasks such as high-performance driving remain limited in the ability to be adaptive by their reliance only on local, con…

cs.LG2025

Learning to Plan, Planning to Learn: Adaptive Hierarchical RL-MPC for Sample-Efficient Decision Making

Toshiaki Hori, Jonathan DeCastro, Deepak Gopinath +2

We propose a new approach for solving planning problems with a hierarchical structure, fusing reinforcement learning and MPC planning. Our formulation tightly and elegantly couples…

cs.RO2025

SimCoachCorpus: A naturalistic dataset with language and trajectories for embodied teaching

Emily Sumner, Deepak E. Gopinath, Laporsha Dees +9

High-quality curated datasets are essential for training and evaluating AI approaches, but are often lacking in embodied interactive domains where language and physical action are…

cs.CV2025

A Simulator Dataset to Support the Study of Impaired Driving

John Gideon, Kimimasa Tamura, Emily Sumner +7

Despite recent advances in automated driving technology, impaired driving continues to incur a high cost to society. In this paper, we present a driving dataset designed to support…

cs.RO2024

Towards an Autonomous Test Driver: High-Performance Driver Modeling via Reinforcement Learning

John Subosits, Jenna Lee, Shawn Manuel +2

Success in racing requires a unique combination of vehicle setup, understanding of the racetrack, and human expertise. Since building and testing many different vehicle configurati…

cs.RO2024

Computational Teaching for Driving via Multi-Task Imitation Learning

Deepak Gopinath, Xiongyi Cui, Jonathan DeCastro +10

Learning motor skills for sports or performance driving is often done with professional instruction from expert human teachers, whose availability is limited. Our goal is to enable…

cs.HC2024

Personalizing Driver Safety Interfaces via Driver Cognitive Factors Inference

Emily S Sumner, Jonathan DeCastro, Jean Costa +14

Recent advances in AI and intelligent vehicle technology hold promise to revolutionize mobility and transportation, in the form of advanced driving assistance (ADAS) interfaces. Al…

eess.SY2023★ 1 cited

Autonomous Drifting with 3 Minutes of Data via Learned Tire Models

Franck Djeumou, Jonathan Y. M. Goh, Ufuk Topcu +1

Near the limits of adhesion, the forces generated by a tire are nonlinear and intricately coupled. Efficient and accurate modelling in this region could improve safety, especially…

cs.LG2023

NashFormer: Leveraging Local Nash Equilibria for Semantically Diverse Trajectory Prediction

Justin Lidard, Oswin So, Yanxia Zhang +8

Interactions between road agents present a significant challenge in trajectory prediction, especially in cases involving multiple agents. Because existing diversity-aware predictor…

eess.SY2023★ 12 cited

A hierarchical adaptive nonlinear model predictive control approach for maximizing tire force usage in autonomous vehicles

James Dallas, Michael Thompson, Jonathan Y. M. Goh +1

The ability to reliably maximize tire force usage would improve the safety of autonomous vehicles, especially in challenging edge cases. However, vehicle control near the limits of…