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Álvaro Serra-Gómez

6 accepted papers

2026

A KL-regularization framework for learning to plan with adaptive priors

ICML 2026poster

Effective exploration remains a key challenge in model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL), especially in high-dimensional continuous control tasks where sample efficiency is critical. Recent work addresses this by using learned policies as proposal distributions for Model-Predictive Path Integral (…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Evaluating Dynamic Environment Difficulty for Obstacle Avoidance Benchmarking

IROS 2024

Dynamic obstacle avoidance is a popular research topic for autonomous systems, such as micro aerial vehicles and service robots. Accurately evaluating the performance of dynamic obstacle avoidance methods necessitates the establishment of a metric to quantify the environment’s difficulty, a crucial

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2023

A Framework for Fast Prototyping of Photo-realistic Environments with Multiple Pedestrians

ICRA 2023poster

Robotic applications involving people often require advanced perception systems to better understand complex real-world scenarios. To address this challenge, photo-realistic and physics simulators are gaining popularity as a means of generating accurate data labeling and designing scenarios for eval…

Cited by 2SourceScholar
2023

Active Classification of Moving Targets With Learned Control Policies

RA-L 2023

In this paper, we consider the problem where a drone has to collect semantic information to classify multiple moving targets. In particular, we address the challenge of computing control inputs that move the drone to informative viewpoints, position and orientation, when the information is extracted

Cited by 4SourceScholar
2022

Where to Look Next: Learning Viewpoint Recommendations for Informative Trajectory Planning

ICRA 2022poster

Search missions require motion planning and navigation methods for information gathering that continuously replan based on new observations of the robot's surroundings. Current methods for information gathering, such as Monte Carlo Tree Search, are capable of reasoning over long horizons, but they a…

Cited by 40SourceScholar
2020

With Whom to Communicate: Learning Efficient Communication for Multi-Robot Collision Avoidance

IROS 2020poster

Decentralized multi-robot systems typically perform coordinated motion planning by constantly broadcasting their intentions as a means to cope with the lack of a central system coordinating the efforts of all robots. Especially in complex dynamic environments, the coordination boost allowed by commu…

Cited by 22SourceScholar