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5 papers

cs.RO2026

Uncertainty Guided Exploratory Trajectory Optimization for Sampling-Based Model Predictive Control

O. Goktug Poyrazoglu, Yukang Cao, Rahul Moorthy +1

Trajectory optimization depends heavily on initialization. In particular, sampling-based approaches are highly sensitive to initial solutions, and limited exploration frequently le…

cs.RO2025

Fast Navigation Through Occluded Spaces via Language-Conditioned Map Prediction

Rahul Moorthy Mahesh, Oguzhan Goktug Poyrazoglu, Yukang Cao +1

In cluttered environments, motion planners often face a trade-off between safety and speed due to uncertainty caused by occlusions and limited sensor range. In this work, we invest…

cs.RO2025

C-Free-Uniform: A Map-Conditioned Trajectory Sampler for Model Predictive Path Integral Control

Yukang Cao, Rahul Moorthy, O. Goktug Poyrazoglu +1

Trajectory sampling is a key component of sampling-based control mechanisms. Trajectory samplers rely on control input samplers, which generate control inputs u from a distribution…

eess.SY2025

An Unsupervised C-Uniform Trajectory Sampler with Applications to Model Predictive Path Integral Control

O. Goktug Poyrazoglu, Rahul Moorthy, Yukang Cao +2

Sampling-based model predictive controllers generate trajectories by sampling control inputs from a fixed, simple distribution such as the normal or uniform distributions. This sam…

cs.RO2024

C-Uniform Trajectory Sampling For Fast Motion Planning

O. Goktug Poyrazoglu, Yukang Cao, Volkan Isler

We study the problem of sampling robot trajectories and introduce the notion of C-Uniformity. As opposed to the standard method of uniformly sampling control inputs (which lead to…