3 papers
cs.RO2026
Asymptotically Optimal Ergodic Coverage on Generalized Motion Fields
Christian Hughes, Yilang Liu, Yanis Lahrach +6
Autonomous robotic exploration in remote and extreme environments allows scientists to model complex transport phenomena and collective behaviors described by continuously deformin…
cs.RO2025
Deformable Cluster Manipulation via Whole-Arm Policy Learning
Jayadeep Jacob, Wenzheng Zhang, Houston Warren +3
Manipulating clusters of deformable objects presents a substantial challenge with widespread applicability, but requires contact-rich whole-arm interactions. A potential solution m…
cs.RO2025
Ergodic Trajectory Optimization on Generalized Domains Using Maximum Mean Discrepancy
Christian Hughes, Houston Warren, Darrick Lee +2
We present a novel formulation of ergodic trajectory optimization that can be specified over general domains using kernel maximum mean discrepancy. Ergodic trajectory optimization…