3 papers
cs.RO2025
Dual Control Reference Generation for Optimal Pick-and-Place Execution under Payload Uncertainty
Victor Vantilborgh, Hrishikesh Sathyanarayan, Guillaume Crevecoeur +2
This work addresses the problem of robot manipulation tasks under unknown dynamics, such as pick-and-place tasks under payload uncertainty, where active exploration and(/for) onlin…
cs.RO2025
Quality Over Quantity: Curating Contact-Based Robot Datasets Improves Learning
Hrishikesh Sathyanarayan, Victor Vantilborgh, Ian Abraham
In this paper, we investigate the utility of datasets and whether more data or the 'right' data is advantageous for robot learning. In particular, we are interested on quantifying…
cs.RO2024
Probabilistic Latent Variable Modeling for Dynamic Friction Identification and Estimation
Victor Vantilborgh, Sander De Witte, Frederik Ostyn +2
Precise identification of dynamic models in robotics is essential to support control design, friction compensation, output torque estimation, etc. A longstanding challenge remains…