6 papers
Distributed Motion Planning with Safety Guarantees for Self-Reconfiguring Robotic Boats
Alejandro Gonzalez-Garcia, Wei Wang, Wei Xiao +4
Aquatic self-reconfigurable robots must assemble into desired shapes while ensuring safe interactions among multiple agents. This paper proposes a hybrid framework that combines di…
Human Insights Driven Latent Space for Different Driving Perspectives: A Unified Encoder for Efficient Multi-Task Inference
Huy-Dung Nguyen, Anass Bairouk, Mirjana Maras +6
Autonomous driving systems require a comprehensive understanding of the environment, achieved by extracting visual features essential for perception, planning, and control. However…
A Closed-Form CLF-CBF Controller for Whole-Body Continuum Soft Robot Collision Avoidance
Kiwan Wong, Maximillian Stölzle, Wei Xiao +1
Safe operation is essential for deploying robots in human-centered 3D environments. Soft continuum manipulators provide passive safety through mechanical compliance, but still requ…
PoSafeNet: Safe Learning with Poset-Structured Neural Nets
Kiwan Wong, Wei Xiao, Daniela Rus
Safe learning is essential for deploying learningbased controllers in safety-critical robotic systems, yet existing approaches often enforce multiple safety constraints uniformly o…
Contact-Aware Safety in Soft Robots Using High-Order Control Barrier and Lyapunov Functions
Kiwan Wong, Maximilian Stölzle, Wei Xiao +3
Robots operating alongside people, particularly in sensitive scenarios such as aiding the elderly with daily tasks or collaborating with workers in manufacturing, must guarantee sa…
Safe Motion Planning and Control Using Predictive and Adaptive Barrier Methods for Autonomous Surface Vessels
Alejandro Gonzalez-Garcia, Wei Xiao, Wei Wang +5
Safe motion planning is essential for autonomous vessel operations, especially in challenging spaces such as narrow inland waterways. However, conventional motion planning approach…