Bio-inspired computation: Where we stand and what's next

J Del Ser, E Osaba, D Molina, XS Yang… - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2019 - Elsevier
In recent years, the research community has witnessed an explosion of literature dealing
with the mimicking of behavioral patterns and social phenomena observed in nature towards …

Probabilistic deep Q network for real-time path planning in censorious robotic procedures using force sensors

PN Srinivasu, AK Bhoi, RH Jhaveri, GT Reddy… - Journal of Real-Time …, 2021 - Springer
In recent years, enormous advancement has taken place in biomedical engineering, which
has paved the way for robot-assisted surgery in various complex surgical procedures. In …

Humanoid Locomotion and Manipulation: Current Progress and Challenges in Control, Planning, and Learning

Z Gu, J Li, W Shen, W Yu, Z **e, S McCrory… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Humanoid robots have great potential to perform various human-level skills. These skills
involve locomotion, manipulation, and cognitive capabilities. Driven by advances in machine …

PANTHER: Perception-aware trajectory planner in dynamic environments

J Tordesillas, JP How - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents PANTHER, a real-time perception-aware (PA) trajectory planner for
multirotor-UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) in dynamic environments. PANTHER plans …

Non-gaussian risk bounded trajectory optimization for stochastic nonlinear systems in uncertain environments

W Han, A Jasour, B Williams - 2022 International Conference …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We address the risk bounded trajectory optimization problem of stochastic nonlinear robotic
systems. More precisely, we consider the motion planning problem in which the robot has …

Chance-constrained sequential convex programming for robust trajectory optimization

T Lew, R Bonalli, M Pavone - 2020 European Control …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Planning safe trajectories for nonlinear dynamical systems subject to model uncertainty and
disturbances is challenging. In this work, we present a novel approach to tackle chance …

Conventional, Heuristic and Learning-Based Robot Motion Planning: Reviewing Frameworks of Current Practical Significance

F Noroozi, M Daneshmand, P Fiorini - Machines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Motion planning algorithms have seen considerable progress and expansion across various
domains of science and technology during the last few decades, where rapid advancements …

Rigorous agent evaluation: An adversarial approach to uncover catastrophic failures

J Uesato, A Kumar, C Szepesvari, T Erez… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating learning systems in safety critical domains
such as autonomous driving, where failures can have catastrophic consequences. We focus …

Risk-averse trajectory optimization via sample average approximation

T Lew, R Bonalli, M Pavone - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Trajectory optimization under uncertainty underpins a wide range of applications in robotics.
However, existing methods are limited in terms of reasoning about sources of epistemic and …

Data-driven chance constrained control using kernel distribution embeddings

A Thorpe, T Lew, M Oishi… - Learning for Dynamics …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
We present a data-driven algorithm for efficiently computing stochastic control policies for
general joint chance constrained optimal control problems. Our approach leverages the …