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20222026
most citedAffordance-Driven Next-Best-View Planning for Robotic Grasping

6 citations · 7 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.RO2026

Static Timing Orchestration for Tree-Structured Robot Control Firmware

Wang Xi, Feiran Wei, Mo Deng +3

As robotic systems become increasingly complex, generating control firmware from structural description files has emerged as a promising paradigm for reducing development complexit…

cs.RO2026

BridgeFlow: Fast and Robust SE(2)-Equivariant Motion Planning with Flow Matching

Xinzhe Zhou, Xuyang Wang, Xiaoming Duan +1

In robotic motion planning, equivariance to rigid body transformations is crucial for robust spatial generalization. However, current learning-based planners face a critical dilemm…

eess.SY2026

Multiplayer Reach-Avoid Differential Games with Defender-Side Information Delay

Zehua Zhao, Rui Yan, Jianping He +1

We consider a class of pursuit-evasion games in which multiple defenders and attackers move in the plane with bounded speeds, while each defender observes the states of other agent…

cs.RO2026

Minimizing Worst-Case Weighted Latency for Multi-Robot Persistent Monitoring: Theory and RL-Based Solutions

Weizhen Wang, Ziheng Wang, Jianping He +2

We study multi-robot persistent monitoring on weighted graphs, where node weights encode monitoring priorities and edge weights encode travel distances. The goal is to design joint…

eess.SY2025

Optimal Unpredictable Control for Linear Systems

Chendi Qu, Jianping He, Jialun Li +1

In this paper, we investigate how to achieve the unpredictability against malicious inferences for linear systems. The key idea is to add stochastic control inputs, named as unpred…

eess.SY2025

Pursuit-Evasion Between a Velocity-Constrained Double-Integrator Pursuer and a Single-Integrator Evader

Zehua Zhao, Rui Yan, Jianping He +2

We study a pursuit-evasion game between a double integrator-driven pursuer with bounded velocity and bounded acceleration and a single integrator-driven evader with bounded velocit…

eess.SY2025

Formation Maneuver Control Based on the Augmented Laplacian Method

Xinzhe Zhou, Xuyang Wang, Xiaoming Duan +2

This paper proposes a novel formation maneuver control method for both 2-D and 3-D space, which enables the formation to translate, scale, and rotate with arbitrary orientation. Th…

cs.LG2025

Analysis of On-policy Policy Gradient Methods under the Distribution Mismatch

Weizhen Wang, Jianping He, Xinzhe Zhou +1

Policy gradient methods are among the most successful approaches for solving challenging reinforcement learning problems. Despite their empirical success, many state-of-the-art pol…

math.OC2024

3DIOC: Direct Data-Driven Inverse Optimal Control for LTI Systems

Chendi Qu, Jianping He, Xiaoming Duan

This paper addresses the Direct Data-Driven Inverse Optimal Control (3DIOC) problem for linear time-invariant (LTI) systems under the linear quadratic (LQ) control. Unlike traditio…

cs.RO2024

Stochastic Trajectory Optimization for Robotic Skill Acquisition From a Suboptimal Demonstration

Chenlin Ming, Zitong Wang, Boxuan Zhang +3

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) has emerged as a crucial method for robots to acquire new skills. However, when given suboptimal task trajectory demonstrations with shape charact…

eess.SY2023

Observation-based Optimal Control Law Learning with LQR Reconstruction

Chendi Qu, Jianping He, Xiaoming Duan

Designing controllers to generate various trajectories has been studied for years, while recently, recovering an optimal controller from trajectories receives increasing attention.…

cs.LG2023

Model Selection for Inverse Reinforcement Learning via Structural Risk Minimization

Chendi Qu, Jianping He, Xiaoming Duan +1

Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) usually assumes the reward function model is pre-specified as a weighted sum of features and estimates the weighting parameters only. However,…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

HiCRISP: An LLM-based Hierarchical Closed-Loop Robotic Intelligent Self-Correction Planner

Chenlin Ming, Jiacheng Lin, Pangkit Fong +3

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into robotics has revolutionized human-robot interactions and autonomous task planning. However, these systems are often unable to s…

cs.RO2023★ 6 cited

Affordance-Driven Next-Best-View Planning for Robotic Grasping

Xuechao Zhang, Dong Wang, Sun Han +7

Grasping occluded objects in cluttered environments is an essential component in complex robotic manipulation tasks. In this paper, we introduce an AffordanCE-driven Next-Best-View…

cs.RO2023

Control Input Inference of Mobile Agents under Unknown Objective

Chendi Qu, Jianping He, Xiaoming Duan +1

Trajectory and control secrecy is an important issue in robotics security. This paper proposes a novel algorithm for the control input inference of a mobile agent without knowing i…

cs.LG2023

Revisiting Estimation Bias in Policy Gradients for Deep Reinforcement Learning

Haoxuan Pan, Deheng Ye, Xiaoming Duan +4

We revisit the estimation bias in policy gradients for the discounted episodic Markov decision process (MDP) from Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) perspective. The objective is fo…

cs.RO2022

Learning-Based Motion Planning with Mixture Density Networks

Yinghan Wang, Xiaoming Duan, Jianping He

The trade-off between computation time and path optimality is a key consideration in motion planning algorithms. While classical sampling based algorithms fall short of computation…