Research Topics

Advancing reliable robot decision-making by coupling perception, reasoning, and action.

Safe Learning-Based Control

Preventing unconstrained CBF safety filters caused by incorrect relative degree assumptionsIEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC), 2026 Addressing relative degree issues in control barrier function synthesis with physics-informed neural networksarXiv Preprint, 2025 Advancing reproducibility, benchmarks, and education with remote sim2realIEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM), 2025 Practical considerations for discrete-time implementations of continuous-time control barrier function-based safety filtersProc. of the American Control Conference (ACC), 2024 Optimized control invariance conditions for uncertain input-constrained nonlinear control systemsIEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS), 2024 Is data all that matters? The role of control frequency for learning-based sampled-data control of uncertain systemsProc. of the American Control Conference (ACC), 2024 What is the impact of releasing code with publications? Statistics from the machine learning, robotics, and control communitiesIEEE Control Systems Magazine (CSM), 2024 Robust predictive output-feedback safety filter for uncertain nonlinear control systemsProc. of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2022 Barrier Bayesian linear regression: online learning of control barrier conditions for safety-critical control of uncertain systemsProc. of the Annual Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference (L4DC), 2022 Safe learning in robotics: from learning-based control to safe reinforcement learningAnnual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, 2022 safe-control-gym: a unified benchmark suite for safe learning-based control and reinforcement learningIEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2022 Bridging the model-reality gap with Lipschitz network adaptationIEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2022 RLO-MPC: Robust learning-based output feedback MPC for improving the performance of uncertain systems in iterative tasksProc. of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2021 Learning to fly: a Gym environment with pybullet physics for reinforcement learning of multi-agent quadcopter controlProc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021 Deep neural networks as add-on modules for enhancing robot performance in impromptu trajectory trackingInternational Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2020 An analysis of the expressiveness of deep neural network architectures based on their lipschitz constantsarXiv Preprint, 2020 Active training trajectory generation for inverse dynamics model learning with deep neural networksProc. of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2019 An inversion-based learning approach for improving impromptu trajectory tracking of robots with non-minimum phase dynamicsIEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2018 Design of deep neural networks as add-on blocks for improving impromptu trajectory trackingProc. of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2017 Deep neural networks as add-on modules for high-accuracy impromptu trajectory trackingProc. of the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2017 A comparison of probabilistic population code and sampling-based code in neural state estimationsProc. of the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN), 2017

Perceptive and Semantic Safety

Multiagent Coordination