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most citedPractical limits on Nanosatellite Telescope Pointing: The Impact of Disturbances and Photon Noise

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cs.RO2023

Efficient Online Learning of Contact Force Models for Connector Insertion

Kevin Tracy, Zachary Manchester, Ajinkya Jain +4

Contact-rich manipulation tasks with stiff frictional elements like connector insertion are difficult to model with rigid-body simulators. In this work, we propose a new approach f…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

ReLU-QP: A GPU-Accelerated Quadratic Programming Solver for Model-Predictive Control

Arun L. Bishop, John Z. Zhang, Swaminathan Gurumurthy +2

We present ReLU-QP, a GPU-accelerated solver for quadratic programs (QPs) that is capable of solving high-dimensional control problems at real-time rates. ReLU-QP is derived by exa…

cs.RO2023

Data-Efficient Model Learning for Control with Jacobian-Regularized Dynamic-Mode Decomposition}

Brian E. Jackson, Jeong Hun Lee, Kevin Tracy +1

We present a data-efficient algorithm for learning models for model-predictive control (MPC). Our approach, Jacobian-Regularized Dynamic-Mode Decomposition (JDMD), offers improved…

cs.RO2022

Differentiable Collision Detection for a Set of Convex Primitives

Kevin Tracy, Taylor A. Howell, Zachary Manchester

Collision detection between objects is critical for simulation, control, and learning for robotic systems. However, existing collision detection routines are inherently non-differe…

cs.RO2022★ 5 cited

DiffPills: Differentiable Collision Detection for Capsules and Padded Polygons

Kevin Tracy, Taylor A. Howell, Zachary Manchester

Collision detection plays an important role in simulation, control, and learning for robotic systems. However, no existing method is differentiable with respect to the configuratio…

cs.RO2022★ 1 cited

CALIPSO: A Differentiable Solver for Trajectory Optimization with Conic and Complementarity Constraints

Taylor A. Howell, Simon Le Cleac'h, Kevin Tracy +1

We present a new solver for non-convex trajectory optimization problems that is specialized for robotics applications. CALIPSO, or the Conic Augmented Lagrangian Interior-Point SOl…