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Spencer Folk

3 accepted papers

2025

Towards Safe and Energy-Efficient Real-Time Motion Planning in Windy Urban Environments

ICRA 2025

Urban winds are a serious hazard for low-altitude autonomous aerial operations in urban airspaces. Previous methods for motion planning in urban winds require global knowledge of the obstacles and flow field and do not lend themselves to real-time application. In this paper, a planning and control f

Cited by 2SourceScholar
2024

Learning Local Urban Wind Flow Fields From Range Sensing

RA-L 2024

Obtaining accurate and timely predictions of the wind through an urban environment is a challenging task, but has wide-ranging implications for the safety and efficiency of autonomous aerial vehicles in future urban airspaces. Prior work relies strongly on global information about the environment, s

Cited by 8SourceScholar
2024

OCCAM: Online Continuous Controller Adaptation with Meta-Learned Models

CoRL 2024poster

Control tuning and adaptation present a significant challenge to the usage of robots in diverse environments. It is often nontrivial to find a single set of control parameters by hand that work well across the broad array of environments and conditions that a robot might encounter. Automated adaptat…

Cited by 2SourceScholar