1 code implementation • 22 Apr 2022 • Thomas Fork, H. Eric Tseng, Francesco Borrelli
We leverage game theory and a new vehicle modeling approach to compute overtaking maneuvers for racecars on a nonplanar surface.
1 code implementation • 20 Apr 2022 • Thomas Fork, H. Eric Tseng, Francesco Borrelli
We present a 10 DoF dynamic vehicle model for model-based control on nonplanar road surfaces.
1 code implementation • 17 Apr 2022 • Xu Shen, Matthew Lacayo, Nidhir Guggilla, Francesco Borrelli
The problem of multimodal intent and trajectory prediction for human-driven vehicles in parking lots is addressed in this paper.
no code implementations • 13 Apr 2022 • Tim Brüdigam, Robert Jacumet, Dirk Wollherr, Marion Leibold, Francesco Borrelli
In this work, we propose a safety algorithm that is compatible with any stochastic Model Predictive Control method for linear systems with additive uncertainty and polytopic constraints.
1 code implementation • 30 Mar 2022 • Edward L. Zhu, Francesco Borrelli
Dynamic games can be an effective approach to modeling interactive behavior between multiple non-cooperative agents and they provide a theoretical framework for simultaneous prediction and control in such scenarios.
no code implementations • 20 Sep 2021 • Siddharth H. Nair, Vijay Govindarajan, Theresa Lin, Chris Meissen, H. Eric Tseng, Francesco Borrelli
The use of feedback policies for prediction is motivated by the need for reduced conservatism in handling multi-modal predictions of the surrounding vehicles, especially prevalent in traffic intersection scenarios.
no code implementations • 13 Sep 2021 • Eunhyek Joa, Francesco Borrelli
The result is a simple, real-time localization method using an image retrieval method whose performance is comparable to other monocular camera localization methods which use a map built with LiDARs.
no code implementations • 18 Aug 2021 • Yeojun Kim, Jacopo Guanetti, Francesco Borrelli
This paper studies the value of communicated motion predictions in the longitudinal control of connected automated vehicles (CAVs).
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2021 • Jeffrey Ichnowski, Paras Jain, Bartolomeo Stellato, Goran Banjac, Michael Luo, Francesco Borrelli, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Ion Stoica, Ken Goldberg
First-order methods for quadratic optimization such as OSQP are widely used for large-scale machine learning and embedded optimal control, where many related problems must be rapidly solved.
no code implementations • 13 May 2021 • Charlott Vallon, Francesco Borrelli
In addition to task-invariant system state and input constraints, a parameterized environment model generates task-specific state constraints, which are satisfied by the stored trajectories.
1 code implementation • 17 Apr 2021 • Thomas Fork, H. Eric Tseng, Francesco Borrelli
We present a simplified model of a vehicle driving on a nonplanar road.
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.
no code implementations • 20 Nov 2020 • Hotae Lee, Monimoy Bujarbaruah, Francesco Borrelli
"Bubble Ball" is a game built on a 2D physics engine, where a finite set of objects can modify the motion of a bubble-like ball.
1 code implementation • 19 Jul 2020 • Monimoy Bujarbaruah, Tony Zheng, Akhil Shetty, Martin Sehr, Francesco Borrelli
In this paper, we present a learning model based control strategy for the cup-and-ball game, where a Universal Robots UR5e manipulator arm learns to catch a ball in one of the cups on a Kendama.
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.
no code implementations • 9 Jun 2020 • Monimoy Bujarbaruah, Charlott Vallon, Francesco Borrelli
We propose a control design method for linear time-invariant systems that iteratively learns to satisfy unknown polyhedral state constraints.
no code implementations • 21 Apr 2020 • Xu Shen, Ivo Batkovic, Vijay Govindarajan, Paolo Falcone, Trevor Darrell, Francesco Borrelli
We investigate the problem of predicting driver behavior in parking lots, an environment which is less structured than typical road networks and features complex, interactive maneuvers in a compact space.
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.
1 code implementation • 22 Nov 2019 • Monimoy Bujarbaruah, Akhil Shetty, Kameshwar Poolla, Francesco Borrelli
We propose an approach to design a Model Predictive Controller (MPC) for constrained Linear Time Invariant systems performing an iterative task.
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 • 30 Sep 2019 • Monimoy Bujarbaruah, Xiaojing Zhang, Marko Tanaskovic, Francesco Borrelli
We consider a linear system, in presence of bounded time varying additive uncertainty.
1 code implementation • 19 Jun 2019 • Xiaojing Zhang, Monimoy Bujarbaruah, Francesco Borrelli
In contrast to most existing approaches, we not only learn the control policy, but also a "certificate policy", that allows us to estimate the sub-optimality of the learned control policy online, during execution-time.
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.
no code implementations • 16 Mar 2019 • Charlott Vallon, Francesco Borrelli
A task decomposition method for iterative learning model predictive control is presented.
no code implementations • 3 Mar 2017 • Y ang Zheng, Shengbo Eben Li, Keqiang Li, Francesco Borrelli
This paper presents a distributed model predictive control (DMPC) algorithm for heterogeneous vehicle platoons with unidirectional topologies and a p r i o r i unknown desired set point.
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.