4 papers
Trajectory-Level Redirection Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models
Gokul Puthumanaillam, Vardhan Dongre, Pranay Thangeda +3
Vision-language-action (VLA) policies bring natural language into closed-loop robot control, enabling robots to execute manipulation tasks directly from text instructions. The same…
Optimizing Agricultural Order Fulfillment Systems: A Hybrid Tree Search Approach
Pranay Thangeda, Hoda Helmi, Melkior Ornik
Efficient order fulfillment is vital in the agricultural industry, particularly due to the seasonal nature of seed supply chains. This paper addresses the challenge of optimizing s…
TRACE: A Self-Improving Framework for Robot Behavior Forecasting with Vision-Language Models
Gokul Puthumanaillam, Paulo Padrao, Jose Fuentes +6
Predicting the near-term behavior of a reactive agent is crucial in many robotic scenarios, yet remains challenging when observations of that agent are sparse or intermittent. Visi…
InfraLib: Enabling Reinforcement Learning and Decision-Making for Large-Scale Infrastructure Management
Pranay Thangeda, Trevor S. Betz, Michael N. Grussing +1
Efficient management of infrastructure systems is crucial for economic stability, sustainability, and public safety. However, infrastructure sustainment is challenging due to the v…