Search Results for author: Manan Gandhi

Found 5 papers, 0 papers with code

Safe Importance Sampling in Model Predictive Path Integral Control

no code implementations6 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).

Gaussian Process Barrier States for Safe Trajectory Optimization and Control

no code implementations1 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).

Gaussian Processes

Safety in Augmented Importance Sampling: Performance Bounds for Robust MPPI

no code implementations12 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.

Model Predictive Control Motion Planning

Robustifying Reinforcement Learning Policies with $\mathcal{L}_1$ Adaptive Control

no code implementations4 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.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Propagating Uncertainty through the tanh Function with Application to Reservoir Computing

no code implementations25 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.

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