11 papers
CSymPlan: Certified Symbolic Planning and Control for High-DOF Manipulators
Aditya Narendra, Ashok Kumar Saini, Mahathi Anand +3
Robot manipulators are commonly engineered around a decoupled motion-generation stack: a planner computes a collision-free path and a lower-level controller tracks the resulting re…
A Unified Multi-Dynamics Framework for Perception-Oriented Modeling in Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots
Ibrahim Alsarraj, Yuhao Wang, Abdalla Swikir +4
Tendon-driven continuum robots offer intrinsically safe and contact-rich interactions owing to their kinematic redundancy and structural compliance. However, their perception often…
Density Matrix-based Dynamics for Quantum Robotic Swarms
Maria Mannone, Mahathi Anand, Peppino Fazio +1
In a robotic swarm, parameters such as position and proximity to the target can be described in terms of probability amplitudes. This idea led to recent studies on a quantum approa…
Learning-Based Robust Control: Unifying Exploration and Distributional Robustness for Reliable Robotics via Free Energy
Hozefa Jesawada, Giovanni Russo, Abdalla Swikir +1
A key challenge towards reliable robotic control is devising computational models that can both learn policies and guarantee robustness when deployed in the field. Inspired by the…
UNCLE-Grasp: A Task-Adapted Framework for Uncertainty-Aware Grasping of Leaf-Occluded Strawberries
Malak Mansour, Ali Abouzeid, Zezhou Sun +3
Robotic strawberry harvesting remains challenging under partial occlusion, where leaves obscure fruit geometry and make grasp decisions based on a single shape estimate unreliable.…
Safe and Stable Neural Network Dynamical Systems for Robot Motion Planning
Allen Emmanuel Binny, Mahathi Anand, Hugo T. M. Kussaba +4
Learning safe and stable robot motions from demonstrations remains a challenge, especially in complex, nonlinear tasks involving dynamic, obstacle-rich environments. In this paper,…