Search Results for author: Ahmed H. Qureshi

Found 26 papers, 10 papers with code

Physics-informed Neural Motion Planning on Constraint Manifolds

no code implementations9 Mar 2024 Ruiqi Ni, Ahmed H. Qureshi

Constrained Motion Planning (CMP) aims to find a collision-free path between the given start and goal configurations on the kinematic constraint manifolds.

Imitation Learning Motion Planning

AnyPose: Anytime 3D Human Pose Forecasting via Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

no code implementations9 Sep 2023 Zixing Wang, Ahmed H. Qureshi

Anytime 3D human pose forecasting is crucial to synchronous real-world human-machine interaction, where the term ``anytime" corresponds to predicting human pose at any real-valued time step.

Human Pose Forecasting

Structural Concept Learning via Graph Attention for Multi-Level Rearrangement Planning

no code implementations5 Sep 2023 Manav Kulshrestha, Ahmed H. Qureshi

Robotic manipulation tasks, such as object rearrangement, play a crucial role in enabling robots to interact with complex and arbitrary environments.

Graph Attention Scene Understanding

SIMMF: Semantics-aware Interactive Multiagent Motion Forecasting for Autonomous Vehicle Driving

no code implementations26 Jun 2023 Vidyaa Krishnan Nivash, Ahmed H. Qureshi

These encodings along with agents' local information, are passed through an encoder to obtain time-dependent latent variables for a motion policy predicting the future trajectories.

Motion Forecasting motion prediction

MANER: Multi-Agent Neural Rearrangement Planning of Objects in Cluttered Environments

no code implementations10 Jun 2023 Vivek Gupta, Praphpreet Dhir, Jeegn Dani, Ahmed H. Qureshi

Object rearrangement is a fundamental problem in robotics with various practical applications ranging from managing warehouses to cleaning and organizing home kitchens.

Progressive Learning for Physics-informed Neural Motion Planning

1 code implementation1 Jun 2023 Ruiqi Ni, Ahmed H. Qureshi

Neural motion planners (NMPs) demonstrate fast computational speed in finding path solutions but require a huge amount of expert trajectories for learning, thus adding a significant training computational load.

Motion Planning

Merging Decision Transformers: Weight Averaging for Forming Multi-Task Policies

1 code implementation14 Mar 2023 Daniel Lawson, Ahmed H. Qureshi

Recent work has shown the promise of creating generalist, transformer-based, models for language, vision, and sequential decision-making problems.

Decision Making

Co-learning Planning and Control Policies Constrained by Differentiable Logic Specifications

no code implementations2 Mar 2023 Zikang Xiong, Daniel Lawson, Joe Eappen, Ahmed H. Qureshi, Suresh Jagannathan

Synthesizing planning and control policies in robotics is a fundamental task, further complicated by factors such as complex logic specifications and high-dimensional robot dynamics.

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning +2

CoGrasp: 6-DoF Grasp Generation for Human-Robot Collaboration

no code implementations6 Oct 2022 Abhinav K. Keshari, Hanwen Ren, Ahmed H. Qureshi

Furthermore, our user study with 10 independent participants indicated our approach enables a safe, natural, and socially-aware human-robot objects' co-grasping experience compared to a standard robot grasping technique.

Grasp Generation Object

NTFields: Neural Time Fields for Physics-Informed Robot Motion Planning

1 code implementation30 Sep 2022 Ruiqi Ni, Ahmed H. Qureshi

We evaluate our method in various cluttered 3D environments, including the Gibson dataset, and demonstrate its ability to solve motion planning problems for 4-DOF and 6-DOF robot manipulators where the traditional grid-based Eikonal planners often face the curse of dimensionality.

Motion Planning Robot Navigation

Robot Active Neural Sensing and Planning in Unknown Cluttered Environments

no code implementations23 Aug 2022 Hanwen Ren, Ahmed H. Qureshi

Active sensing and planning in unknown, cluttered environments is an open challenge for robots intending to provide home service, search and rescue, narrow-passage inspection, and medical assistance.

Co-design of Embodied Neural Intelligence via Constrained Evolution

no code implementations21 May 2022 Zhiquan Wang, Bedrich Benes, Ahmed H. Qureshi, Christos Mousas

The agent is then randomly modified within the allowed ranges creating a new generation of several hundred agents.

Model-free Neural Lyapunov Control for Safe Robot Navigation

1 code implementation2 Mar 2022 Zikang Xiong, Joe Eappen, Ahmed H. Qureshi, Suresh Jagannathan

Model-free Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) controllers have demonstrated promising results on various challenging non-linear control tasks.

Robot Navigation

Motion Planning Transformers: A Motion Planning Framework for Mobile Robots

1 code implementation5 Jun 2021 Jacob J. Johnson, Uday S. Kalra, Ankit Bhatia, Linjun Li, Ahmed H. Qureshi, Michael C. Yip

A popular technique to improve the efficiency of these planners is to restrict search space in the planning domain.

Motion Planning valid

NeRP: Neural Rearrangement Planning for Unknown Objects

no code implementations2 Jun 2021 Ahmed H. Qureshi, Arsalan Mousavian, Chris Paxton, Michael C. Yip, Dieter Fox

We propose NeRP (Neural Rearrangement Planning), a deep learning based approach for multi-step neural object rearrangement planning which works with never-before-seen objects, that is trained on simulation data, and generalizes to the real world.

Constrained Motion Planning Networks X

no code implementations17 Oct 2020 Ahmed H. Qureshi, Jiangeng Dong, Asfiya Baig, Michael C. Yip

However, few solutions to constrained motion planning are available, and those that exist struggle with high computational time complexity in finding a path solution on the manifolds.

Motion Planning Robot Manipulation

Neural Manipulation Planning on Constraint Manifolds

no code implementations9 Aug 2020 Ahmed H. Qureshi, Jiangeng Dong, Austin Choe, Michael C. Yip

The presence of task constraints imposes a significant challenge to motion planning.

Motion Planning

Motion Planning Networks: Bridging the Gap Between Learning-based and Classical Motion Planners

1 code implementation13 Jul 2019 Ahmed H. Qureshi, Yinglong Miao, Anthony Simeonov, Michael C. Yip

We validate MPNet against gold-standard and state-of-the-art planning methods in a variety of problems from 2D to 7D robot configuration spaces in challenging and cluttered environments, with results showing significant and consistently stronger performance metrics, and motivating neural planning in general as a modern strategy for solving motion planning problems efficiently.

Continual Learning Motion Planning

Composing Task-Agnostic Policies with Deep Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations ICLR 2020 Ahmed H. Qureshi, Jacob J. Johnson, Yuzhe Qin, Taylor Henderson, Byron Boots, Michael C. Yip

The composition of elementary behaviors to solve challenging transfer learning problems is one of the key elements in building intelligent machines.

Decision Making Motion Planning +3

Neural Path Planning: Fixed Time, Near-Optimal Path Generation via Oracle Imitation

1 code implementation25 Apr 2019 Mayur J. Bency, Ahmed H. Qureshi, Michael C. Yip

In this work, we introduce a novel way of producing fast and optimal motion plans for static environments by using a stepping neural network approach, called OracleNet.

Motion Planning

Deeply Informed Neural Sampling for Robot Motion Planning

1 code implementation26 Sep 2018 Ahmed H. Qureshi, Michael C. Yip

In this paper, we present a neural network-based adaptive sampler for motion planning called Deep Sampling-based Motion Planner (DeepSMP).

Motion Planning

Potentially Guided Bidirectionalized RRT* for Fast Optimal Path Planning in Cluttered Environments

no code implementations22 Jul 2018 Zaid Tahir, Ahmed H. Qureshi, Yasar Ayaz, Raheel Nawaz

The proposed algorithms greatly improve the convergence rate and have a more efficient memory utilization.

Motion Planning

Motion Planning Networks

1 code implementation14 Jun 2018 Ahmed H. Qureshi, Anthony Simeonov, Mayur J. Bency, Michael C. Yip

Fast and efficient motion planning algorithms are crucial for many state-of-the-art robotics applications such as self-driving cars.

Motion Planning Self-Driving Cars +1

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