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20202026
most citedCACTO: Continuous Actor-Critic with Trajectory Optimization -- Towards global optimality

21 citations · 21 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.RO2026

Embedding Physics Priors in Robot Learning: A Survey

Mattia Piccinini, Lucas Schulze, Alice Plebe +10

The rapid progress of artificial intelligence is reshaping robotics and accelerating the adoption of learning-based approaches. While purely data-driven methods have achieved remar…

cs.RO2025

Model-Structured Neural Networks to Control the Steering Dynamics of Autonomous Race Cars

Mattia Piccinini, Aniello Mungiello, Georg Jank +3

Autonomous racing has gained increasing attention in recent years, as a safe environment to accelerate the development of motion planning and control methods for autonomous driving…

cs.RO2023

CACTO-SL: Using Sobolev Learning to improve Continuous Actor-Critic with Trajectory Optimization

Elisa Alboni, Gianluigi Grandesso, Gastone Pietro Rosati Papini +2

Trajectory Optimization (TO) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) are powerful and complementary tools to solve optimal control problems. On the one hand, TO can efficiently compute loc…

cs.RO2022★ 21 cited

CACTO: Continuous Actor-Critic with Trajectory Optimization -- Towards global optimality

Gianluigi Grandesso, Elisa Alboni, Gastone P. Rosati Papini +2

This paper presents a novel algorithm for the continuous control of dynamical systems that combines Trajectory Optimization (TO) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) in a single framewo…

cs.RO2020

Generating Reliable and Efficient Predictions of Human Motion: A Promising Encounter between Physics and Neural Networks

Alessandro Antonucci, Gastone Pietro Rosati Papini, Luigi Palopoli +1

Generating accurate and efficient predictions for the motion of the humans present in the scene is key to the development of effective motion planning algorithms for robots moving…