no code implementations • 6 Mar 2023 • Manan Gandhi, Hassan Almubarak, Evangelos Theodorou
We introduce the notion of importance sampling under embedded barrier state control, titled Safety Controlled Model Predictive Path Integral Control (SC-MPPI).
no code implementations • 1 Dec 2022 • Hassan Almubarak, Manan Gandhi, Yuichiro Aoyama, Nader Sadegh, Evangelos A. Theodorou
We derive the barrier state dynamics utilizing the GP posterior, which is used to construct a safety embedded Gaussian process dynamical model (GPDM).
no code implementations • 12 Apr 2022 • Manan Gandhi, Hassan Almubarak, Yuichiro Aoyama, Evangelos Theodorou
This work explores the nature of augmented importance sampling in safety-constrained model predictive control problems.
no code implementations • 4 Jun 2021 • Yikun Cheng, Pan Zhao, Manan Gandhi, Bo Li, Evangelos Theodorou, Naira Hovakimyan
A reinforcement learning (RL) policy trained in a nominal environment could fail in a new/perturbed environment due to the existence of dynamic variations.
no code implementations • 25 Jun 2018 • Manan Gandhi, Keuntaek Lee, Yunpeng Pan, Evangelos Theodorou
In this work, we contribute two new methods to propagate uncertainty through the tanh activation function and propose the Probabilistic Echo State Network (PESN), a method that is shown to have better average performance than deterministic Echo State Networks given the random initialization of reservoir states.