no code implementations • 25 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.
no code implementations • 21 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.
no code implementations • 4 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.
no code implementations • 10 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
no code implementations • 26 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.
no code implementations • 5 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.
2 code implementations • 5 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.
1 code implementation • 3 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
no code implementations • 15 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.