Safe reinforcement learning on the constraint manifold: Theory and applications

P Liu, H Bou-Ammar, J Peters, D Tateo - arxiv preprint arxiv:2404.09080, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Integrating learning-based techniques, especially reinforcement learning, into robotics is
promising for solving complex problems in unstructured environments. However, most …

Sampling constrained trajectories using composable diffusion models

T Power, R Soltani-Zarrin, S Iba… - IROS 2023 Workshop on …, 2023‏ - openreview.net
Trajectory optimization and optimal control are powerful tools for synthesizing complex robot
behavior using appropriate cost functions and constraints. However, methods for solving the …

Motion planning diffusion: Learning and adapting robot motion planning with diffusion models

J Carvalho, A Le, P Kicki, D Koert, J Peters - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
The performance of optimization-based robot motion planning algorithms is highly
dependent on the initial solutions, commonly obtained by running a sampling-based planner …

Pinsat: Parallelized interleaving of graph search and trajectory optimization for kinodynamic motion planning

R Natarajan, S Mukherjee, H Choset… - 2024 IEEE/RSJ …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Trajectory optimization is a widely used technique in robot motion planning for letting the
dynamics of the system shape and synthesize complex behaviors. Several previous works …

Physics-informed neural motion planning on constraint manifolds

R Ni, AH Qureshi - 2024 IEEE International Conference on …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Constrained Motion Planning (CMP) aims to find a collision-free path between the given
start and goal configurations on the kinematic constraint manifolds. These problems appear …

Bridging the gap between learning-to-plan, motion primitives and safe reinforcement learning

P Kicki, D Tateo, P Liu, J Guenster, J Peters… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Trajectory planning under kinodynamic constraints is fundamental for advanced robotics
applications that require dexterous, reactive, and rapid skills in complex environments …

A Retrospective on the Robot Air Hockey Challenge: Benchmarking Robust, Reliable, and Safe Learning Techniques for Real-world Robotics

P Liu, J Günster, N Funk, S Gröger… - Advances in …, 2025‏ - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Machine learning methods have a groundbreaking impact in many application
domains, but their application on real robotic platforms is still limited. Despite the many …

Trajectory manifold optimization for fast and adaptive kinodynamic motion planning

Y Lee - arxiv preprint arxiv:2410.12193, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Fast kinodynamic motion planning is crucial for systems to effectively adapt to dynamically
changing environments. Despite some efforts, existing approaches still struggle with rapid …

Neural randomized planning for whole body robot motion

Y Lu, Y Ma, D Hsu, P Cai - arxiv preprint arxiv:2405.11317, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Robot motion planning has made vast advances over the past decades, but the challenge
remains: robot mobile manipulators struggle to plan long-range whole-body motion in …

Energy-based Contact Planning under Uncertainty for Robot Air Hockey

J Jankowski, A Marić, P Liu, D Tateo, J Peters… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Planning robot contact often requires reasoning over a horizon to anticipate outcomes,
making such planning problems computationally expensive. In this letter, we propose a …