Search Results for author: David D. Fan

Found 9 papers, 2 papers with code

Learning Risk-aware Costmaps for Traversability in Challenging Environments

no code implementations25 Jul 2021 David D. Fan, Sharmita Dey, Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi, Evangelos A. Theodorou

One of the main challenges in autonomous robotic exploration and navigation in unknown and unstructured environments is determining where the robot can or cannot safely move.

NeBula: Quest for Robotic Autonomy in Challenging Environments; TEAM CoSTAR at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge

no code implementations21 Mar 2021 Ali Agha, Kyohei Otsu, Benjamin Morrell, David D. Fan, Rohan Thakker, Angel Santamaria-Navarro, Sung-Kyun Kim, Amanda Bouman, Xianmei Lei, Jeffrey Edlund, Muhammad Fadhil Ginting, Kamak Ebadi, Matthew Anderson, Torkom Pailevanian, Edward Terry, Michael Wolf, Andrea Tagliabue, Tiago Stegun Vaquero, Matteo Palieri, Scott Tepsuporn, Yun Chang, Arash Kalantari, Fernando Chavez, Brett Lopez, Nobuhiro Funabiki, Gregory Miles, Thomas Touma, Alessandro Buscicchio, Jesus Tordesillas, Nikhilesh Alatur, Jeremy Nash, William Walsh, Sunggoo Jung, Hanseob Lee, Christoforos Kanellakis, John Mayo, Scott Harper, Marcel Kaufmann, Anushri Dixit, Gustavo Correa, Carlyn Lee, Jay Gao, Gene Merewether, Jairo Maldonado-Contreras, Gautam Salhotra, Maira Saboia Da Silva, Benjamin Ramtoula, Yuki Kubo, Seyed Fakoorian, Alexander Hatteland, Taeyeon Kim, Tara Bartlett, Alex Stephens, Leon Kim, Chuck Bergh, Eric Heiden, Thomas Lew, Abhishek Cauligi, Tristan Heywood, Andrew Kramer, Henry A. Leopold, Chris Choi, Shreyansh Daftry, Olivier Toupet, Inhwan Wee, Abhishek Thakur, Micah Feras, Giovanni Beltrame, George Nikolakopoulos, David Shim, Luca Carlone, Joel Burdick

This paper presents and discusses algorithms, hardware, and software architecture developed by the TEAM CoSTAR (Collaborative SubTerranean Autonomous Robots), competing in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge.

Decision Making Motion Planning

STEP: Stochastic Traversability Evaluation and Planning for Risk-Aware Off-road Navigation

no code implementations4 Mar 2021 David D. Fan, Kyohei Otsu, Yuki Kubo, Anushri Dixit, Joel Burdick, Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi

Although ground robotic autonomy has gained widespread usage in structured and controlled environments, autonomy in unknown and off-road terrain remains a difficult problem.

Autonomous Navigation Model Predictive Control +1

PLGRIM: Hierarchical Value Learning for Large-scale Exploration in Unknown Environments

no code implementations10 Feb 2021 Sung-Kyun Kim, Amanda Bouman, Gautam Salhotra, David D. Fan, Kyohei Otsu, Joel Burdick, Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi

In order for an autonomous robot to efficiently explore an unknown environment, it must account for uncertainty in sensor measurements, hazard assessment, localization, and motion execution.

Robotics

Autonomous Off-road Navigation over Extreme Terrains with Perceptually-challenging Conditions

no code implementations26 Jan 2021 Rohan Thakker, Nikhilesh Alatur, David D. Fan, Jesus Tordesillas, Michael Paton, Kyohei Otsu, Olivier Toupet, Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi

We propose a framework for resilient autonomous navigation in perceptually challenging unknown environments with mobility-stressing elements such as uneven surfaces with rocks and boulders, steep slopes, negative obstacles like cliffs and holes, and narrow passages.

Autonomous Navigation

Deep Learning Tubes for Tube MPC

no code implementations5 Feb 2020 David D. Fan, Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi, Evangelos A. Theodorou

This uncertainty may come from errors in learning (due to a lack of data, for example), or may be inherent to the system.

Model-based Reinforcement Learning Model Predictive Control

Bayesian Learning-Based Adaptive Control for Safety Critical Systems

2 code implementations5 Oct 2019 David D. Fan, Jennifer Nguyen, Rohan Thakker, Nikhilesh Alatur, Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi, Evangelos A. Theodorou

We propose a framework which satisfies these constraints while allowing the use of deep neural networks for learning model uncertainties.

Autonomous Vehicles Bayesian Inference +2

Model-Based Stochastic Search for Large Scale Optimization of Multi-Agent UAV Swarms

1 code implementation3 Mar 2018 David D. Fan, Evangelos Theodorou, John Reeder

Recent work from the reinforcement learning community has shown that Evolution Strategies are a fast and scalable alternative to other reinforcement learning methods.

Multiagent Systems

MPC-Inspired Neural Network Policies for Sequential Decision Making

no code implementations15 Feb 2018 Marcus Pereira, David D. Fan, Gabriel Nakajima An, Evangelos Theodorou

In this paper we investigate the use of MPC-inspired neural network policies for sequential decision making.

Decision Making

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