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20222026
most citedActive Learning-based Model Predictive Coverage Control

17 citations · 37 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.RO2026

VIGOR-MPC: Vision-Guided Objective Regulation MPC

Jelena Trisovic, Rahel Rickenbach, Marek Landert +2

Controlling an agent in an environment solely perceived through onboard vision is challenging: perception yields noisy, variable-length, and partially occluded context, while onboa…

cs.RO2026

MOSAIC: Mode- and Support-Aware Inference-Time Control of Robot Diffusion Models

Sabrina Bodmer, Rahel Rickenbach, René Zurbrügg +2

Generative policies such as diffusion models provide expressive data-driven priors for robot behavior, yet the situations a robot faces at execution time rarely match its training…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Eigenvalues as a Metric for Memory Dynamics in Sequence Models

Rahel Rickenbach, Jelena Trisovic, Alexandre Didier +2

While softmax attention drives state-of-the-art performance in sequence modeling, its quadratic complexity motivates linear alternatives such as state space models (SSMs). Structur…

cs.LG2025

Physics-informed learning under mixing: How physical knowledge speeds up learning

Anna Scampicchio, Leonardo F. Toso, Rahel Rickenbach +2

A major challenge in physics-informed machine learning is to understand how the incorporation of prior domain knowledge affects learning rates when data are dependent. Focusing on…

cs.RO2025

ZipMPC: Compressed Context-Dependent MPC Cost via Imitation Learning

Rahel Rickenbach, Alan A. Lahoud, Erik Schaffernicht +2

The computational burden of model predictive control (MPC) limits its application on real-time systems, such as robots, and often requires the use of short prediction horizons. Thi…

cs.RO2025

DEMONSTRATE: Zero-shot Language to Robotic Control via Multi-task Demonstration Learning

Rahel Rickenbach, Bruce Lee, René Zurbrügg +2

The integration of large language models (LLMs) with control systems has demonstrated significant potential in various settings, such as task completion with a robotic manipulator.…

eess.SY2025★ 2 cited

Inverse Optimal Control with Constraint Relaxation

Rahel Rickenbach, Amon Lahr, Melanie N. Zeilinger

Inverse optimal control (IOC) is a promising paradigm for learning and mimicking optimal control strategies from capable demonstrators, or gaining a deeper understanding of their i…

eess.SY2023

Inverse Optimal Control as an Errors-in-Variables Problem

Rahel Rickenbach, Anna Scampicchio, Melanie N. Zeilinger

Inverse optimal control (IOC) is about estimating an unknown objective of interest given its optimal control sequence. However, truly optimal demonstrations are often difficult to…

eess.SY2023

Time Dependent Inverse Optimal Control using Trigonometric Basis Functions

Rahel Rickenbach, Elena Arcari, Melanie N. Zeilinger

The choice of objective is critical for the performance of an optimal controller. When control requirements vary during operation, e.g. due to changes in the environment with which…

eess.SY2023★ 17 cited

Active Learning-based Model Predictive Coverage Control

Rahel Rickenbach, Johannes Köhler, Anna Scampicchio +2

The problem of coverage control, i.e., of coordinating multiple agents to optimally cover an area, arises in various applications. However, coverage applications face two major cha…

cs.RO2022★ 17 cited

Chronos and CRS: Design of a miniature car-like robot and a software framework for single and multi-agent robotics and control

Andrea Carron, Sabrina Bodmer, Lukas Vogel +6

From both an educational and research point of view, experiments on hardware are a key aspect of robotics and control. In the last decade, many open-source hardware and software fr…