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Murad Dawood

6 accepted papers

2025

Context-Based Meta Reinforcement Learning for Robust and Adaptable Peg-in-Hole Assembly Tasks

IROS 2025

Autonomous assembly is an essential capability for industrial and service robots, with Peg-in-Hole (PiH) insertion being one of the core tasks. However, PiH assembly in unknown environments is still challenging due to uncertainty in task parameters, such as the hole position and orientation, resulti

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Physically-Consistent Parameter Identification of Robots in Contact

ICRA 2025

Accurate inertial parameter identification is crucial for the simulation and control of robots encountering intermittent contacts with the environment. Classically, robots' inertial parameters are obtained from CAD models that are not precise (and sometimes not available, e.g., Spot from Boston Dyna

Cited by 5SourceScholar
2025

Safe Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Behavior-Based Cooperative Navigation

RA-L 2025

In this paper, we address the problem of behavior-based cooperative navigation of mobile robots using safe multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Our work is the first to focus on cooperative navigation without individual reference targets for the robots, using a single target for the formation'

Cited by 14SourceScholar
2024

Centroidal State Estimation Based on the Koopman Embedding for Dynamic Legged Locomotion

IROS 2024poster

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to centroidal state estimation, which plays a crucial role in predictive model-based control strategies for dynamic legged locomotion. Our approach uses the Koopman operator theory to transform the robot’s complex nonlinear dynamics into a linear system,…

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2023

Handling Sparse Rewards in Reinforcement Learning Using Model Predictive Control

ICRA 2023poster

Reinforcement learning (RL) has recently proven great success in various domains. Yet, the design of the reward function requires detailed domain expertise and tedious fine-tuning to ensure that agents are able to learn the desired behaviour. Using a sparse reward conveniently mitigates these challe…

Cited by 14SourceScholar
2023

Viewpoint Push Planning for Mapping of Unknown Confined Spaces

IROS 2023poster

Viewpoint planning is an important task in any application where objects or scenes need to be viewed from different angles to achieve sufficient coverage. The mapping of confined spaces such as shelves is an especially challenging task since objects occlude each other and the scene can only be obser…

Cited by 8SourcecodeScholar