4 papers
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…
Safe Motion Planning and Control Using Predictive and Adaptive Barrier Methods for Autonomous Surface Vessels
Alejandro Gonzalez-Garcia, Wei Xiao, Wei Wang +5
Safe motion planning is essential for autonomous vessel operations, especially in challenging spaces such as narrow inland waterways. However, conventional motion planning approach…
Contact-Aware Safety in Soft Robots Using High-Order Control Barrier and Lyapunov Functions
Kiwan Wong, Maximilian Stölzle, Wei Xiao +3
Robots operating alongside people, particularly in sensitive scenarios such as aiding the elderly with daily tasks or collaborating with workers in manufacturing, must guarantee sa…
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…