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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

Cited by 6SourcecodeScholar
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

Cited by 4SourceScholar
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…

Cited by 2SourcecodeScholar