no code implementations • 11 May 2021 • Fanfei Chen, Paul Szenher, Yewei Huang, Jinkun Wang, Tixiao Shan, Shi Bai, Brendan Englot
An agent can use domain knowledge provided by human experts to learn efficiently.
no code implementations • 5 Apr 2021 • Sanjai Narain, Emily Mak, Dana Chee, Brendan Englot, Kishore Pochiraju, Niraj K. Jha, Karthik Narayan
This paper presents a new method of solving the inverse design problem namely, given requirements or constraints on output, find an input that also optimizes an objective function.
1 code implementation • 3 Mar 2021 • Tixiao Shan, Brendan Englot, Fabio Duarte, Carlo Ratti, Daniela Rus
We propose a methodology for robust, real-time place recognition using an imaging lidar, which yields image-quality high-resolution 3D point clouds.
no code implementations • 19 Oct 2020 • Sanjai Narain, Emily Mak, Dana Chee, Todd Huster, Jeremy Cohen, Kishore Pochiraju, Brendan Englot, Niraj K. Jha, Karthik Narayan
Central to the design of many robot systems and their controllers is solving a constrained blackbox optimization problem.
no code implementations • 2 Aug 2020 • John D. Martin, Kevin Doherty, Caralyn Cyr, Brendan Englot, John Leonard
The ability to infer map variables and estimate pose is crucial to the operation of autonomous mobile robots.
1 code implementation • 24 Jul 2020 • Fanfei Chen, John D. Martin, Yewei Huang, Jinkun Wang, Brendan Englot
We consider an autonomous exploration problem in which a range-sensing mobile robot is tasked with accurately mapping the landmarks in an a priori unknown environment efficiently in real-time; it must choose sensing actions that both curb localization uncertainty and achieve information gain.
1 code implementation • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2020 • Tixiao Shan, Brendan Englot, Drew Meyers, Wei Wang, Carlo Ratti, Daniela Rus
We propose a framework for tightly-coupled lidar inertial odometry via smoothing and mapping, LIO-SAM, that achieves highly accurate, real-time mobile robot trajectory estimation and map-building.
Robotics
1 code implementation • arXiv 2020 • Tixiao Shan, Jinkun Wang, Fanfei Chen, Paul Szenher, Brendan Englot
We propose a methodology for lidar super-resolution with ground vehicles driving on roadways, which relies completely on a driving simulator to enhance, via deep learning, the apparent resolution of a physical lidar.
Robotics Image and Video Processing
no code implementations • ICML 2020 • John D. Martin, Michal Lyskawinski, Xiaohu Li, Brendan Englot
We describe a new approach for managing aleatoric uncertainty in the Reinforcement Learning (RL) paradigm.
Distributional Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning +1
1 code implementation • 6 Jan 2019 • Fanfei Chen, Shi Bai, Tixiao Shan, Brendan Englot
Mapping and exploration of a priori unknown environments is a crucial capability for mobile robot autonomy.
no code implementations • 17 Nov 2018 • John Martin, Brendan Englot
The class of Gaussian Process (GP) methods for Temporal Difference learning has shown promise for data-efficient model-free Reinforcement Learning.
no code implementations • 2 Oct 2018 • John Martin, Jinkun Wang, Brendan Englot
Our results show SPGP-SARSA can outperform the state-of-the-art sparse method, replicate the prediction quality of its exact counterpart, and be applied to solve underwater navigation tasks.
1 code implementation • 1 Oct 2018 • Tixiao Shan, Brendan Englot
We propose a lightweight and ground-optimized lidar odometry and mapping method, LeGO-LOAM, for realtime six degree-of-freedom pose estimation with ground vehicles.