6 accepted papers
Modern autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), such as self-driving cars, face increasingly complex demands, and yet are expected to act reliably. The black-box nature often characterizing such systems, especially those relying on neural components, makes it impossible to fully verify the system b…
Long-horizon task planning is important for robot autonomy, especially as a subroutine for frameworks such as Integrated Task and Motion Planning. However, task planning is computationally challenging and struggles to scale to realistic problem settings. We propose to accelerate task planning over a…
Robotic task planning is computationally challenging. To reduce planning cost and support life-long operation, we must leverage prior planning experience. To this end, we address the problem of extracting reusable and generalizable abstract skills from successful plan executions. In previous work, w…
In probabilistic state inference, we seek to estimate the state of an (autonomous) agent from noisy observations. It can be shown that, under certain assumptions, finding the estimate is equivalent to solving a linear least squares problem. Solving such a problem is done by calculating the upper tri
In this paper we introduce a novel approach for efficient decision making under uncertainty and belief space planning, in high dimensional state spaces. While recently developed methods focus on sparsifying the inference process, the sparsification here is done in the context of efficient decision m…
In this paper we introduce a novel sparsification method for efficient decision making under uncertainty and belief space planning in high dimensional state spaces. By using a sparse version of the state's information matrix, we are able to improve the high computational cost of examination of all c…