← Search

Joe Eappen

5 accepted papers

2025

FLoRA: A Framework for Learning Scoring Rules in Autonomous Driving Planning Systems

RA-L 2025

In autonomous driving systems, motion planning is commonly implemented as a two-stage process: first, a trajectory proposer generates multiple candidate trajectories, then a scoring mechanism selects the most suitable trajectory for execution. For this critical selection stage, rule-based scoring me

Cited by 1Source ↗Scholar ↗
2024

Co-learning Planning and Control Policies Constrained by Differentiable Logic Specifications

ICRA 2024poster

Synthesizing planning and control policies in robotics is a fundamental task, further complicated by factors such as complex logic specifications and high-dimensional robot dynamics. This paper presents a novel reinforcement learning approach to solving high-dimensional robot navigation tasks with c…

Cited by 1Source ↗Scholar ↗
2024

Information-Directed Pessimism for Offline Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2024poster

Policy optimization from batch data, i.e., offline reinforcement learning (RL) is important when collecting data from a current policy is not possible. This setting incurs distribution mismatch between batch training data and trajectories from the current policy. Pessimistic offsets estimate mismatc…

Cited by 1Source ↗PDF ↗Scholar ↗
2024

Scaling Safe Multi-Agent Control for Signal Temporal Logic Specifications

CoRL 2024poster

Existing methods for safe multi-agent control using logic specifications like Signal Temporal Logic (STL) often face scalability issues. This is because they rely either on single-agent perspectives or on Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP)-based planners, which are complex to optimize. These me…

Cited by 1Source ↗code ↗Scholar ↗
2022

Model-free Neural Lyapunov Control for Safe Robot Navigation

IROS 2022poster

Model-free Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) controllers have demonstrated promising results on various challenging non-linear control tasks. While a model-free DRL algorithm can solve unknown dynamics and high-dimensional problems, it lacks safety assurance. Although safety constraints can be encod…

Cited by 8Source ↗code ↗Scholar ↗