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  •  Jha, D.K., Kolaric, P., Raghunathan, A., Lewis, F., Benosman, M., Romeres, D., Nikovski, D.N., "Local Policy Optimization for Trajectory-Centric Reinforcement Learning", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Ayanna Howard, Eds., May 2020, pp. 5094-5100.
    BibTeX TR2020-062 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Jha2020may,
    • author = {Jha, Devesh K. and Kolaric, Patrik and Raghunathan, Arvind and Lewis, Frank and Benosman, Mouhacine and Romeres, Diego and Nikovski, Daniel N.},
    • title = {{Local Policy Optimization for Trajectory-Centric Reinforcement Learning}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
    • year = 2020,
    • editor = {Ayanna Howard},
    • pages = {5094--5100},
    • month = may,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • isbn = {978-1-7281-7395-5},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-062}
    • }
  •  Onol, A.O., Corcodel, R., Long, P., Padir, T., "Tuning-Free Contact-Implicit Trajectory Optimization", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), DOI: 10.1109/​ICRA40945.2020.9196805, May 2020, pp. 1183-1189.
    BibTeX TR2020-065 PDF Video
    • @inproceedings{Onol2020may,
    • author = {Onol, Aykut O. and Corcodel, Radu and Long, Philip and Padir, Taskin},
    • title = {{Tuning-Free Contact-Implicit Trajectory Optimization}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
    • year = 2020,
    • pages = {1183--1189},
    • month = may,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9196805},
    • issn = {2577-087X},
    • isbn = {978-1-7281-7395-5},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-065}
    • }
  •  Romeres, D., Dalla Libera, A., Jha, D.K., Yerazunis, W.S., Nikovski, D.N., "Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Physical Systems Without Velocity and Acceleration Measurements", Robotics and Automation Letters, DOI: 10.1109/​LRA.2020.2977255, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 3548-3555, May 2020.
    BibTeX TR2020-063 PDF
    • @article{Romeres2020may,
    • author = {Romeres, Diego and Dalla Libera, Alberto and Jha, Devesh K. and Yerazunis, William S. and Nikovski, Daniel N.},
    • title = {{Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Physical Systems Without Velocity and Acceleration Measurements}},
    • journal = {Robotics and Automation Letters},
    • year = 2020,
    • volume = 5,
    • number = 2,
    • pages = {3548--3555},
    • month = may,
    • doi = {10.1109/LRA.2020.2977255},
    • issn = {2377-3766},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-063}
    • }
  •  Bortoff, S.A., "Modeling Contact and Collisions for Robotic Assembly Control", American Modelica Conference 2020, DOI: 10.3384/​ECP2016954, March 2020, pp. 54-63.
    BibTeX TR2020-032 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Bortoff2020mar,
    • author = {Bortoff, Scott A.},
    • title = {{Modeling Contact and Collisions for Robotic Assembly Control}},
    • booktitle = {American Modelica Conference 2020},
    • year = 2020,
    • pages = {54--63},
    • month = mar,
    • doi = {10.3384/ECP2016954},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-032}
    • }
  •  Caverly, R., Di Cairano, S., Weiss, A., "Control Allocation and Quantization of a GEO Satellite with 4DOF Gimbaled Thruster Booms", AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, DOI: 10.2514/​6.2020-1687, January 2020.
    BibTeX TR2020-008 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Caverly2020jan,
    • author = {Caverly, Ryan and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Weiss, Avishai},
    • title = {{Control Allocation and Quantization of a GEO Satellite with 4DOF Gimbaled Thruster Booms}},
    • booktitle = {AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting},
    • year = 2020,
    • month = jan,
    • doi = {10.2514/6.2020-1687},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-008}
    • }
  •  Muralidharan, V., Weiss, A., Kalabic, U., "Control Strategy for Long-Term Station-Keeping on Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbits", AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, DOI: 10.2514/​6.2020-1459, January 2020.
    BibTeX TR2020-006 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Muralidharan2020jan,
    • author = {Muralidharan, Vivek and Weiss, Avishai and Kalabic, Uros},
    • title = {{Control Strategy for Long-Term Station-Keeping on Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbits}},
    • booktitle = {AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting},
    • year = 2020,
    • month = jan,
    • doi = {10.2514/6.2020-1459},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-006}
    • }
  •  Jha, D.K., Kolaric, P., Romeres, D., Raghunathan, A., Benosman, M., Nikovski, D.N., "Robust Optimization for Trajectory-Centric Model-based Reinforcement Learning", NeurIPS Workshop on Safety and Robustness in Decision Making, December 2019.
    BibTeX TR2019-156 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Jha2019dec2,
    • author = {Jha, Devesh K. and Kolaric, Patrik and Romeres, Diego and Raghunathan, Arvind and Benosman, Mouhacine and Nikovski, Daniel N.},
    • title = {{Robust Optimization for Trajectory-Centric Model-based Reinforcement Learning}},
    • booktitle = {NeurIPS Workshop on Safety and Robustness in Decision Making},
    • year = 2019,
    • month = dec,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-156}
    • }
  •  Jha, D.K., Raghunathan, A., Romeres, D., "QNTRPO: Including Curvature in TRPO", Optimization Foundations for Reinforcement Learning Workshop at NeurIPS, December 2019.
    BibTeX TR2019-154 PDF Software
    • @inproceedings{Jha2019dec,
    • author = {Jha, Devesh K. and Raghunathan, Arvind and Romeres, Diego},
    • title = {{QNTRPO: Including Curvature in TRPO}},
    • booktitle = {Optimization Foundations for Reinforcement Learning Workshop at NeurIPS},
    • year = 2019,
    • month = dec,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-154}
    • }
  •  Ota, K., Jha, D.K., Oiki, T., Miura, M., Nammoto, T., Nikovski, D., Mariyama, T., "Trajectory Optimization for Unknown Constrained Systems using Reinforcement Learning", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), DOI: 10.1109/​IROS40897.2019.8968010, November 2019, pp. 3487-3494.
    BibTeX TR2019-129 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Ota2019nov,
    • author = {Ota, Kei and Jha, Devesh K. and Oiki, Tomohiro and Miura, Mamoru and Nammoto, Takashi and Nikovski, Daniel and Mariyama, Toshisada},
    • title = {{Trajectory Optimization for Unknown Constrained Systems using Reinforcement Learning}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
    • year = 2019,
    • pages = {3487--3494},
    • month = nov,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/IROS40897.2019.8968010},
    • issn = {2153-0866},
    • isbn = {978-1-7281-4004-9},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-129}
    • }
  •  Jha, D.K., Raghunathan, A., Romeres, D., "Quasi-Newton Trust Region Policy Optimization", Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Leslie Pack Kaelbling and Danica Kragic and Komei Sugiura, Eds., October 2019, pp. 945-954.
    BibTeX TR2019-120 PDF Software
    • @inproceedings{Jha2019oct,
    • author = {Jha, Devesh K. and Raghunathan, Arvind and Romeres, Diego},
    • title = {{Quasi-Newton Trust Region Policy Optimization}},
    • booktitle = {Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)},
    • year = 2019,
    • editor = {Leslie Pack Kaelbling and Danica Kragic and Komei Sugiura},
    • pages = {945--954},
    • month = oct,
    • publisher = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-120}
    • }
  •  Almeida, D., Ataer-Cansizoglu, E., Corcodel, R., "Detection, Tracking and 3D Modeling of Objects with Sparse RGB-D SLAM and Interactive Perception", IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, DOI: 10.1109/​Humanoids43949.2019.9035001, October 2019, pp. 1-8.
    BibTeX TR2019-119 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Almeida2019oct,
    • author = {Almeida, Diogo and Ataer-Cansizoglu, Esra and Corcodel, Radu},
    • title = {{Detection, Tracking and 3D Modeling of Objects with Sparse RGB-D SLAM and Interactive Perception}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots},
    • year = 2019,
    • pages = {1--8},
    • month = oct,
    • doi = {10.1109/Humanoids43949.2019.9035001},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-119}
    • }
  •  Takahashi, T., Sun, H., Tian, D., Wang, Y., "Learning Heuristic Functions for Mobile Robot Path Planning Using Deep Neural Networks", International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), July 2019, pp. 764-772.
    BibTeX TR2019-072 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Takahashi2019jul,
    • author = {Takahashi, Takeshi and Sun, He and Tian, Dong and Wang, Yebin},
    • title = {{Learning Heuristic Functions for Mobile Robot Path Planning Using Deep Neural Networks}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS)},
    • year = 2019,
    • pages = {764--772},
    • month = jul,
    • publisher = {AAAI},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-072}
    • }
  •  Berntorp, K., Inani, P., Quirynen, R., Di Cairano, S., "Motion Planning of Autonomous Road Vehicles by Particle Filtering: Implementation and Validation", American Control Conference (ACC), DOI: 10.23919/​ACC.2019.8815309, July 2019, pp. 1382-1387.
    BibTeX TR2019-062 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Berntorp2019jul2,
    • author = {Berntorp, Karl and Inani, Pranav and Quirynen, Rien and {Di Cairano}, Stefano},
    • title = {{Motion Planning of Autonomous Road Vehicles by Particle Filtering: Implementation and Validation}},
    • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
    • year = 2019,
    • pages = {1382--1387},
    • month = jul,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.23919/ACC.2019.8815309},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-062}
    • }
  •  Romeres, D., Jha, D.K., Dau, H., Yerazunis, W.S., Nikovski, D.N., "Anomaly Detection for Insertion Tasks in Robotic Assembly Using Gaussian Process Models", European Control Conference (ECC), DOI: 10.23919/​ECC.2019.8795698, June 2019, pp. 1017-1022.
    BibTeX TR2019-055 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Romeres2019jun,
    • author = {Romeres, Diego and Jha, Devesh K. and Dau, Hoang and Yerazunis, William S. and Nikovski, Daniel N.},
    • title = {{Anomaly Detection for Insertion Tasks in Robotic Assembly Using Gaussian Process Models}},
    • booktitle = {European Control Conference (ECC)},
    • year = 2019,
    • pages = {1017--1022},
    • month = jun,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.23919/ECC.2019.8795698},
    • isbn = {978-3-907144-00-8},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-055}
    • }
  •  Romeres, D., Jha, D.K., Dalla Libera, A., Yerazunis, W.S., Nikovski, D.N., "Semiparametrical Gaussian Processes Learning of Forward Dynamical Models for Navigating in a Circular Maze", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), DOI: 10.1109/​ICRA.2019.8794229, May 2019, pp. 3195-3202.
    BibTeX TR2019-028 PDF Video Software
    • @inproceedings{Romeres2019may,
    • author = {Romeres, Diego and Jha, Devesh K. and Dalla Libera, Alberto and Yerazunis, William S. and Nikovski, Daniel N.},
    • title = {{Semiparametrical Gaussian Processes Learning of Forward Dynamical Models for Navigating in a Circular Maze}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
    • year = 2019,
    • pages = {3195--3202},
    • month = may,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ICRA.2019.8794229},
    • issn = {2577-087X},
    • isbn = {978-1-5386-6027-0},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-028}
    • }
  •  Romeres, D.., Jha, D.K., Dalla Libera, A., Chiuso, A., Nikovski, D.N., "Derivative-Free Semiparametric Bayesian Models for Robot Learning", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), December 2018.
    BibTeX TR2018-165 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Romeres2018dec,
    • author = {Romeres, Diego and Jha, Devesh K. and Dalla Libera, Alberto and Chiuso, Alessandro and Nikovski, Daniel N.},
    • title = {{Derivative-Free Semiparametric Bayesian Models for Robot Learning}},
    • booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)},
    • year = 2018,
    • month = dec,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2018-165}
    • }
  •  Paul, S., van Baar, J., "Trajectory-based Learning for Ball-in-Maze Games", NIPS Workshop on Imitation Learning and its Challenges in Robotics, December 2018.
    BibTeX TR2018-158 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Paul2018dec,
    • author = {Paul, Sujoy and {van Baar}, Jeroen},
    • title = {{Trajectory-based Learning for Ball-in-Maze Games}},
    • booktitle = {NIPS Workshop on Imitation Learning and its Challenges in Robotics},
    • year = 2018,
    • month = dec,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2018-158}
    • }
  •  Jha, D.K., Romeres, D., van Baar, J., Sullivan, A., Nikovski, D.N., "Learning Tasks in a Complex Circular Maze Environment", NIPS Workshop on Modeling the Physical World: Perception, Learning, and Control, December 2018.
    BibTeX TR2018-169 PDF
    • @inproceedings{vanBaar2018dec,
    • author = {Jha, Devesh K. and Romeres, Diego and {van Baar}, Jeroen and Sullivan, Alan and Nikovski, Daniel N.},
    • title = {{Learning Tasks in a Complex Circular Maze Environment}},
    • booktitle = {NIPS Workshop on Modeling the Physical World: Perception, Learning, and Control},
    • year = 2018,
    • month = dec,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2018-169}
    • }
  •  Jha, D.K., Yerazunis, W.S., Nikovski, D.N., Farahmand, A.-M., "Learning to Regulate Rolling Ball Motion", IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Engineering Solutions, DOI: 10.1109/​SSCI.2017.8285376, November 2017.
    BibTeX TR2017-176 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Jha2017nov,
    • author = {Jha, Devesh K. and Yerazunis, William S. and Nikovski, Daniel N. and Farahmand, Amir-massoud},
    • title = {{Learning to Regulate Rolling Ball Motion}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Engineering Solutions},
    • year = 2017,
    • month = nov,
    • doi = {10.1109/SSCI.2017.8285376},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2017-176}
    • }
  •  Abbeloos, W., Ataer-Cansizoglu, E., Caccamo, S., Taguchi, Y., Domae, Y., "3D Object Discovery and Modeling Using Single RGB-D Images Containing Multiple Object Instances", International Conference on 3D Vision, October 2017.
    BibTeX TR2017-148 PDF Video
    • @inproceedings{Abbeloos2017oct,
    • author = {Abbeloos, Wim and Ataer-Cansizoglu, Esra and Caccamo, Sergio and Taguchi, Yuichi and Domae, Yukiyasu},
    • title = {{3D Object Discovery and Modeling Using Single RGB-D Images Containing Multiple Object Instances}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on 3D Vision},
    • year = 2017,
    • month = oct,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2017-148}
    • }
  •  Caccamo, S., Ataer-Cansizoglu, E., Taguchi, Y., "Joint 3D Reconstruction of a Static Scene and Moving Objects", International Conference on 3D Vision, October 2017.
    BibTeX TR2017-147 PDF Video
    • @inproceedings{Caccamo2017oct,
    • author = {Caccamo, Sergio and Ataer-Cansizoglu, Esra and Taguchi, Yuichi},
    • title = {{Joint 3D Reconstruction of a Static Scene and Moving Objects}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on 3D Vision},
    • year = 2017,
    • month = oct,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2017-147}
    • }
  •  Dai, J., Wang, Y., Bortoff, S.A., Burns, D.J., "From Reeds-Shepp's paths to continuous curvature path - Part I: transition schemes & algorithms", IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, DOI: 10.1109/​CCTA.2017.8062488, August 2017.
    BibTeX TR2017-122 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Dai2017aug,
    • author = {Dai, Jin and Wang, Yebin and Bortoff, Scott A. and Burns, Daniel J.},
    • title = {{From Reeds-Shepp's paths to continuous curvature path- Part I: transition schemes \& algorithms}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications},
    • year = 2017,
    • month = aug,
    • doi = {10.1109/CCTA.2017.8062488},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2017-122}
    • }
  •  Dai, J., Wang, Y., "Existence Conditions of A Class of Continuous Curvature Paths", Chinese Control Conference (CCC), DOI: 10.23919/​ChiCC.2017.8028426, July 2017.
    BibTeX TR2017-102 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Dai2017jul,
    • author = {Dai, Jin and Wang, Yebin},
    • title = {{Existence Conditions of A Class of Continuous Curvature Paths}},
    • booktitle = {Chinese Control Conference (CCC)},
    • year = 2017,
    • month = jul,
    • doi = {10.23919/ChiCC.2017.8028426},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2017-102}
    • }
  •  Abbeloos, W., Caccamo, S., Ataer-Cansizoglu, E., Taguchi, Y., Feng, C., Lee, T.-Y., "Detecting and Grouping Identical Objects for Region Proposal and Classification", CVPR Workshop on Deep Learning for Robotic Vision, DOI: 10.1109/​CVPRW.2017.76, July 2017.
    BibTeX TR2017-099 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Abbeloos2017jul,
    • author = {Abbeloos, Wim and Caccamo, Sergio and Ataer-Cansizoglu, Esra and Taguchi, Yuichi and Feng, Chen and Lee, Teng-Yok},
    • title = {{Detecting and Grouping Identical Objects for Region Proposal and Classification}},
    • booktitle = {CVPR Workshop on Deep Learning for Robotic Vision},
    • year = 2017,
    • month = jul,
    • doi = {10.1109/CVPRW.2017.76},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2017-099}
    • }
  •  Halder, U., Kalabić, U., "Time-Optimal Solution for a Unicycle Path on SE(2) with a Penalty on Curvature", World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), DOI: 10.1016/​j.ifacol.2017.08.916, July 2017, vol. 50, pp. 6320-6325.
    BibTeX TR2017-092 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Halder2017jul,
    • author = {Halder, Udit and Kalabić, Uroš},
    • title = {{Time-Optimal Solution for a Unicycle Path on SE(2) with a Penalty on Curvature}},
    • booktitle = {World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)},
    • year = 2017,
    • volume = 50,
    • number = 1,
    • pages = {6320--6325},
    • month = jul,
    • publisher = {Elsevier},
    • doi = {10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.916},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2017-092}
    • }