Search Results for author: Patrick M. Wensing

Found 4 papers, 1 papers with code

Coriolis Factorizations and their Connections to Riemannian Geometry

no code implementations22 Dec 2023 Patrick M. Wensing, Johannes Englsberger, Jean-Jacques E. Slotine

Many energy-based control strategies for mechanical systems require the choice of a Coriolis factorization satisfying a skew-symmetry property.

CACTO: Continuous Actor-Critic with Trajectory Optimization -- Towards global optimality

no code implementations12 Nov 2022 Gianluigi Grandesso, Elisa Alboni, Gastone P. Rosati Papini, Patrick M. Wensing, Andrea Del Prete

Thus, our algorithm learns a "good" control policy via TO-guided RL policy search that, when used as initial guess provider for TO, makes the trajectory optimization process less prone to converge to poor local optima.

Continuous Control Reinforcement Learning (RL)

A Geometric Characterization of Observability in Inertial Parameter Identification

3 code implementations10 Nov 2017 Patrick M. Wensing, Günter Niemeyer, Jean-Jacques E. Slotine

This paper presents an algorithm to geometrically characterize inertial parameter identifiability for an articulated robot.

Robotics

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