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John Irvin Alora

3 accepted papers

2026

Learning Actuator-Aware Spectral Submanifolds for Precise Control of Continuum Robots

ICRA 2026poster

Continuum robots exhibit high-dimensional, nonlinear dynamics which are often coupled with their actuation mechanism. Spectral submanifold (SSM) reduction has emerged as a leading method for reducing high-dimensional nonlinear dynamical systems to low-dimensional invariant manifolds. Our proposed co…

2024

Perfecting Periodic Trajectory Tracking: Model Predictive Control with a Periodic Observer (Π-MPC)

IROS 2024poster

In Model Predictive Control (MPC), discrepancies between the actual system and the predictive model can lead to substantial tracking errors and significantly degrade performance and reliability. While such discrepancies can be alleviated with more complex models, this often complicates controller de…

Cited by 2SourcecodeScholar
2023

Data-Driven Spectral Submanifold Reduction for Nonlinear Optimal Control of High-Dimensional Robots

ICRA 2023poster

Modeling and control of high-dimensional, nonlinear robotic systems remains a challenging task. While various model- and learning-based approaches have been proposed to address these challenges, they broadly lack generalizability to different control tasks and rarely preserve the structure of the dy…

Cited by 40SourceScholar