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Amith Manoharan

3 accepted papers

2025

$\pi$-MPPI: A Projection-Based Model Predictive Path Integral Scheme for Smooth Optimal Control of Fixed-Wing Aerial Vehicles

RA-L 2025

Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) is a popular sampling-based Model Predictive Control (MPC) algorithm for nonlinear systems. It optimizes trajectories by sampling control sequences and averaging them. However, a key issue with MPPI is the non-smoothness of the optimal control sequence, leading

Cited by 6SourceScholar
2024

Bi-level Trajectory Optimization on Uneven Terrains with Differentiable Wheel-Terrain Interaction Model

IROS 2024poster

Navigation of wheeled vehicles on uneven terrain necessitates going beyond the 2D approaches for trajectory planning. Specifically, it is essential to incorporate the full 6dof variation of vehicle pose and its associated stability cost in the planning process. To this end, most recent works aim to…

Cited by 3SourceScholar