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Javier Borquez

3 accepted papers

2026

DualGuard MPPI: Safe and Performant Optimal Control by Combining Sampling-Based MPC and Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability

ICRA 2026poster

Designing controllers that are both safe and performant is inherently challenging. This co-optimization can be formulated as a constrained optimal control problem, where the cost function represents the performance criterion and safety is specified as a constraint. While sampling-based methods, such…

2024

Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability Analysis for Hybrid Systems with Controlled and Forced Transitions

RSS 2024poster

Hybrid dynamical systems with nonlinear dynamics are one of the most general modeling tools for representing robotic systems, especially contact-rich systems. However, providing guarantees regarding the safety or performance of nonlinear hybrid systems remains a challenging problem because it requir…

2023

Parameter-Conditioned Reachable Sets for Updating Safety Assurances Online

ICRA 2023poster

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis is a powerful tool for analyzing the safety of autonomous systems. However, the provided safety assurances are often predicated on the assumption that once deployed, the system or its environment does not evolve. Online, however, an autonomous system might…

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