Conformal decision theory: Safe autonomous decisions from imperfect predictions

J Lekeufack, AN Angelopoulos, A Bajcsy… - … on Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce Conformal Decision Theory, a framework for producing safe autonomous
decisions despite imperfect machine learning predictions. Examples of such decisions are …

Topology-driven parallel trajectory optimization in dynamic environments

O De Groot, L Ferranti, DM Gavrila… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ground robots navigating in complex, dynamic environments must compute collision-free
trajectories to avoid obstacles safely and efficiently. Nonconvex optimization is a popular …

Probabilistic motion planning and prediction via partitioned scenario replay

O De Groot, A Sridharan… - … on Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous mobile robots require predictions of human motion to plan a safe trajectory that
avoids them. Because human motion cannot be predicted exactly, future trajectories are …

Risk-aware control for robots with non-gaussian belief spaces

M Vahs, J Tumova - 2024 IEEE International Conference on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problem of safety-critical control of autonomous robots,
considering the ubiquitous uncertainties arising from un-modeled dynamics and noisy …

CC-VPSTO: Chance-Constrained Via-Point-based Stochastic Trajectory Optimisation for Safe and Efficient Online Robot Motion Planning

L Brudermüller, G Berger, J Jankowski… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Safety in the face of uncertainty is a key challenge in robotics. We introduce a real-time
capable framework to generate safe and task-efficient robot motions for stochastic control …

AVOCADO: Adaptive Optimal Collision Avoidance driven by Opinion

D Martinez-Baselga, E Sebastián, E Montijano… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present AVOCADO (AdaptiVe Optimal Collision Avoidance Driven by Opinion), a novel
navigation approach to address holonomic robot collision avoidance when the degree of …

Chains: chain-based fusion safety system framework for intelligent connected vehicle

S Yang, B Sun, H Guang, R Wang, B Zheng, W Gong… - Chain, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent connected vehicles, as the focus of the global automotive industry, are currently at
a critical stage of large-scale commercialization. However, during the development process …

Predictability Awareness for Efficient and Robust Multi-Agent Coordination

RC Gil, DJ Ornia, KA Mustafa, JA Mora - arxiv preprint arxiv:2411.06223, 2024 - arxiv.org
To safely and efficiently solve motion planning problems in multi-agent settings, most
approaches attempt to solve a joint optimization that explicitly accounts for the responses …

[HTML][HTML] Unconstrained model predictive control for robot navigation under uncertainty

SH Arul, JJ Park, V Prem, Y Zhang, D Manocha - 2024 - amazon.science
In this paper, we present a probabilistic and unconstrained model predictive control
formulation for robot navigation under uncertainty. We present (1) a closed-form …