8 papers
Designing Rewards for Rewarding Designs: Demonstrating the Impact of Rewards on the Creative Design Process
Surabhi S Nath, Vindula Jayawardana, Monica Van +2
The creative design process involves transforming abstract goals into concrete outcomes through a series of decisions made under constraints. While such processes are commonly shap…
Noise-Aware Generative Microscopic Traffic Simulation
Vindula Jayawardana, Catherine Tang, Junyi Ji +3
Accurately modeling individual vehicle behavior in microscopic traffic simulation remains a key challenge in intelligent transportation systems, as it requires vehicles to realisti…
A Roadmap for Climate-Relevant Robotics Research
Alan Papalia, Charles Dawson, Laurentiu L. Anton +25
Climate change is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century, and many in the robotics community are looking for ways to contribute. This paper presents a roadmap for clima…
Multi-residual Mixture of Experts Learning for Cooperative Control in Multi-vehicle Systems
Vindula Jayawardana, Sirui Li, Yashar Farid +1
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are becoming increasingly popular, with their applications now extending beyond just a mode of transportation to serving as mobile actuators of a traffic…
Mitigating Metropolitan Carbon Emissions with Dynamic Eco-driving at Scale
Vindula Jayawardana, Baptiste Freydt, Ao Qu +6
The sheer scale and diversity of transportation make it a formidable sector to decarbonize. Here, we consider an emerging opportunity to reduce carbon emissions: the growing adopti…
NeuralMOVES: A lightweight and microscopic vehicle emission estimation model based on reverse engineering and surrogate learning
Edgar Ramirez-Sanchez, Catherine Tang, Yaosheng Xu +4
The transportation sector significantly contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, necessitating accurate emission models to guide mitigation strategies. Despite its field validation…