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Ruan Viljoen

3 accepted papers

2025

From Instantaneous to Predictive Control: A More Intuitive and Tunable MPC Formulation for Robot Manipulators

RA-L 2025

Model predictive control (MPC) has become increasingly popular for the control of robot manipulators due to its improved performance compared to instantaneous control approaches. However, tuning these controllers remains a considerable hurdle. To address this hurdle, we propose a practical MPC formu

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2025

Learning Deformable Linear Object Dynamics From a Single Trajectory

RA-L 2025

The dynamic manipulation of deformable objects poses a significant challenge in robotics. While model-based approaches for controlling such objects hold significant potential, their effectiveness hinges on the availability of an accurate and computationally efficient dynamics model. This work focuse

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2024

Safe Imitation Learning of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Flexible Robots

IROS 2024poster

Flexible robots may overcome some of the industry’s major challenges, such as enabling intrinsically safe human-robot collaboration and achieving a higher payload-to-mass ratio. However, controlling flexible robots is complicated due to their complex dynamics, which include oscillatory behavior and…

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