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Alejandro Astudillo

4 accepted papers

2025

Safe Motion Planning and Control Using Predictive and Adaptive Barrier Methods for Autonomous Surface Vessels

IROS 2025

Safe motion planning is essential for autonomous vessel operations, especially in challenging spaces such as narrow inland waterways. However, conventional motion planning approaches are often computationally intensive or overly conservative. This paper proposes a safe motion planning strategy combi

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2023

An Optimal Open-Loop Strategy for Handling a Flexible Beam with a Robot Manipulator

ICRA 2023poster

Fast and safe manipulation of flexible objects with a robot manipulator necessitates measures to cope with vibrations. Existing approaches either increase the task execution time or require complex models and/or additional instrumentation to measure vibrations. This paper develops a model-based meth…

Cited by 2SourcecodeScholar
2022

Position and Orientation Tunnel-Following NMPC of Robot Manipulators Based on Symbolic Linearization in Sequential Convex Quadratic Programming

RA-L 2022

The tunnel-following nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) scheme allows to exploit acceptable deviations around a path reference. This is done by using convex-over-nonlinear functions as objective and constraints in the underlying optimal control problem (OCP). The convex-over-nonlinear structu

Cited by 18SourceScholar
2022

Tasho: A Python Toolbox for Rapid Prototyping and Deployment of Optimal Control Problem-Based Complex Robot Motion Skills

IROS 2022poster

We present Tasho (Task specification for receding horizon control), an open-source Python toolbox that facilitates systematic programming of optimal control problem (OCP)-based robot motion skills. Separation-of-concerns is followed while designing the components of a motion skill, which promotes th…

Cited by 4SourceScholar