no code implementations • 20 Feb 2023 • Konstantinos Benidis, Ugo Rosolia, Syama Rangapuram, George Iosifidis, Georgios Paschos
We propose an ML-based model that automates and expedites the solution of MIPs by predicting the values of variables.
1 code implementation • 1 Apr 2022 • Noel Csomay-Shanklin, Andrew J. Taylor, Ugo Rosolia, Aaron D. Ames
Modern control systems must operate in increasingly complex environments subject to safety constraints and input limits, and are often implemented in a hierarchical fashion with different controllers running at multiple time scales.
no code implementations • 9 Mar 2022 • Shreyansh Daftry, Neil Abcouwer, Tyler del Sesto, Siddarth Venkatraman, Jialin Song, Lucas Igel, Amos Byon, Ugo Rosolia, Yisong Yue, Masahiro Ono
We present MLNav, a learning-enhanced path planning framework for safety-critical and resource-limited systems operating in complex environments, such as rovers navigating on Mars.
1 code implementation • 14 Dec 2021 • Kevin Huang, Sahin Lale, Ugo Rosolia, Yuanyuan Shi, Anima Anandkumar
It then uses the top trajectories as initialization for gradient descent and applies gradient updates to each of these trajectories to find the optimal action sequence.
1 code implementation • 10 Sep 2021 • Yuxiao Chen, Ugo Rosolia, Wyatt Ubellacker, Noel Csomay-Shanklin, Aaron D. Ames
Motion planning for autonomous robots and vehicles in presence of uncontrolled agents remains a challenging problem as the reactive behaviors of the uncontrolled agents must be considered.
no code implementations • 9 Sep 2021 • Prithvi Akella, Ugo Rosolia, Aaron D. Ames
As a result, the test and evaluation ideal would be to verify the efficacy of a system simulator and use this verification result to make a statement on true system performance.
no code implementations • 9 Sep 2021 • Mohamadreza Ahmadi, Ugo Rosolia, Michel D. Ingham, Richard M. Murray, Aaron D. Ames
In this paper, we consider the problem of designing policies for MDPs and POMDPs with objectives and constraints in terms of dynamic coherent risk measures, which we refer to as the constrained risk-averse problem.
no code implementations • 16 Apr 2021 • Ugo Rosolia, Aaron D. Ames
First, we present an algorithm that leverages a feasible trajectory that completes the task to construct a control policy which guarantees that state and input constraints are recursively satisfied and that the closed-loop system reaches the goal state in finite time.
1 code implementation • 23 Mar 2021 • Monimoy Bujarbaruah, Ugo Rosolia, Yvonne R. Stürz, Francesco Borrelli
We propose a simple and computationally efficient approach for designing a robust Model Predictive Controller (MPC) for constrained uncertain linear systems.
1 code implementation • 8 Mar 2021 • Ivan D. Jimenez Rodriguez, Ugo Rosolia, Aaron D. Ames, Yisong Yue
We present a straightforward and efficient way to control unstable robotic systems using an estimated dynamics model.
1 code implementation • 11 Dec 2020 • Ugo Rosolia, Andrew Singletary, Aaron D. Ames
In this paper we present a hierarchical multi-rate control architecture for nonlinear autonomous systems operating in partially observable environments.
no code implementations • 4 Dec 2020 • Mohamadreza Ahmadi, Ugo Rosolia, Michel D. Ingham, Richard M. Murray, Aaron D. Ames
We consider the problem of designing policies for Markov decision processes (MDPs) with dynamic coherent risk objectives and constraints.
no code implementations • 6 Nov 2020 • Yuxiao Chen, Ugo Rosolia, Chuchu Fan, Aaron D. Ames, Richard Murray
Motion planning in environments with multiple agents is critical to many important autonomous applications such as autonomous vehicles and assistive robots.
2 code implementations • 2 Jul 2020 • Monimoy Bujarbaruah, Ugo Rosolia, Yvonne R Stürz, Xiaojing Zhang, Francesco Borrelli
We propose a novel approach to design a robust Model Predictive Controller (MPC) for constrained uncertain linear systems.
1 code implementation • 2 Apr 2020 • Edward L. Zhu, Yvonne R. Stürz, Ugo Rosolia, Francesco Borrelli
We present a decentralized minimum-time trajectory optimization scheme based on learning model predictive control for multi-agent systems with nonlinear decoupled dynamics and coupled state constraints.
no code implementations • 3 Mar 2020 • Brijen Thananjeyan, Ashwin Balakrishna, Ugo Rosolia, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Aaron Ames, Ken Goldberg
Sample-based learning model predictive control (LMPC) strategies have recently attracted attention due to their desirable theoretical properties and their good empirical performance on robotic tasks.
no code implementations • 21 Nov 2019 • Ugo Rosolia, Xiaojing Zhang, Francesco Borrelli
At each iteration of the control task the closed-loop state, input and cost are stored and used in the controller design.
no code implementations • 31 May 2019 • Brijen Thananjeyan, Ashwin Balakrishna, Ugo Rosolia, Felix Li, Rowan Mcallister, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Sergey Levine, Francesco Borrelli, Ken Goldberg
Reinforcement learning (RL) for robotics is challenging due to the difficulty in hand-engineering a dense cost function, which can lead to unintended behavior, and dynamical uncertainty, which makes exploration and constraint satisfaction challenging.
Model-based Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning +1
no code implementations • 23 Feb 2017 • Ugo Rosolia, Francesco Borrelli
The control scheme is reference-free and is able to improve its performance by learning from previous iterations.
no code implementations • 20 Oct 2016 • Ugo Rosolia, Ashwin Carvalho, Francesco Borrelli
A novel learning Model Predictive Control technique is applied to the autonomous racing problem.
no code implementations • 6 Sep 2016 • Ugo Rosolia, Francesco Borrelli
The controller is reference-free and is able to improve its performance by learning from previous iterations.