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Tairan He*, Wenli Xiao*, Toru Lin, Zhengyi Luo, Zhenjia Xu, Zhenyu Jiang, Jan Kautz, Changliu Liu, Guanya Shi, Xiaolong Wang, Linxi Fan†, Yuke Zhu† paper   website TL;DR: HOVER unifies many humanoid whole-body control modes to one policy that supports diverse control modes and outperforms each specialist. |
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Dvij Kalaria, Haoru Xue, Wenli Xiao, Tony Tao, Guanya Shi, John Dolan paper   website TL;DR: Meta-learn a vehicle dynamics model ensemble and use uncertainty-aware MPPI for control. |
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Guanqi He, Yogita Choudhary, Guanya Shi paper   website   code TL;DR: Pretrain a residual dynamics DNN using meta-learning and fine-tune the whole DNN online using adaptive control with stability guarantees. |
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Wenli Xiao*, Haoru Xue*, Tony Tao, Dvij Kalaria, John M. Dolan, Guanya Shi paper   website   code   IEEE Spectrum TL;DR: AnyCar is a transformer-based dynamics model that can adapt to various vehicles, environments, state estimators, and tasks. |
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Haoru Xue*, Chaoyi Pan*, Zeji Yi, Guannan Qu, Guanya Shi paper   website   code TL;DR: DIAL-MPC is the first training-free method achieving real-time whole-body torque control using full-order dynamics. |
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Yuxiang Yang, Guanya Shi, Changyi Lin, Xiangyun Meng, Rosario Scalise, Mateo Guaman Castro, Wenhao Yu, Tingnan Zhang, Ding Zhao, Jie Tan, Byron Boots paper   website   code TL;DR: Continuous, agile, and autonomous quadrupedal jumping via hierarchical model-free RL and model-based control. |
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Chaoyi Pan*, Zeji Yi*, Guanya Shi†, Guannan Qu† Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024 paper   website   code TL;DR: MBD is a diffusion-based traj optimization method that directly computes the score function using models without any external data. |
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Xiaofeng Guo*, Guanqi He*, Jiahe Xu, Mohammadreza Mousaei, Junyi Geng, Sebastian Scherer, Guanya Shi IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2024 paper   website   IEEE Spectrum TL;DR: Flying calligrapher enables precise hybrid motion and contact force control for an aerial manipulator in various drawing tasks. |
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Tairan He*, Zhengyi Luo*, Xialin He*, Wenli Xiao, Chong Zhang, Weinan Zhang, Kris Kitani, Changliu Liu, Guanya Shi Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2024 paper   website   dataset   code   IEEE Spectrum TL;DR: OmniH2O provides a universal whole-body humanoid control interface that enables diverse teleoperation and autonomy methods. |
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Chong Zhang*, Wenli Xiao*, Tairan He, Guanya Shi Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2024 (Oral Presentation) paper   website   IEEE SpectrumTL;DR: WoCoCo is a task-agnostic skill learning framework without any motion priors, by decomposing long-horizon tasks into contact sequences. |
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Tairan He*, Zhengyi Luo*, Wenli Xiao, Chong Zhang, Kris Kitani, Changliu Liu, Guanya Shi International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024 (Oral Presentation) paper   website   code   IEEE SpectrumTL;DR: H2O enables real-time whole-body teleoperation of a full-sized humanoid to perform tasks like pick and place, walking, kicking, boxing, etc. |
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Tairan He*, Chong Zhang*, Wenli Xiao, Guanqi He, Changliu Liu, Guanya Shi Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2024 (Outstanding Student Paper Award Finalist) paper   website   code   IEEE Spectrum   CMU NewsTL;DR: ABS enables fully onboard, agile (>3m/s), and collision-free locomotion for quadrupedal robots in cluttered environments. |
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Tyler Han, Alex Liu, Anqi Li, Alex Spitzer, Guanya Shi, Byron Boots Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2024 paper   website TL;DR: We design a terrain-aware MPC framework that enables agile driving over uneven offroad geometries such as hills, banks, and ditches. |
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Yu Chen, Yilin Cai, Jinyun Xu, Zhongqiang Ren, Guanya Shi, Howie Choset International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), 2024 paper TL;DR: We propose a fast and scalable method for high-dim constrained IK problems, based on propagative distance-based optimization. |
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Zeji Yi*, Chaoyi Pan*, Guanqi He, Guannan Qu†, Guanya Shi† Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC), 2024 paper   website   code TL;DR: We quantify the convergence rate of sampling-based MPC, and design a practical and effective algorithm CoVO-MPC with optimal rate. |
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Fengze Xie, Guanya Shi, Michael O'Connell, Yisong Yue, Soon-Jo Chung International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024 paper   website TL;DR: HMAC handles both manageable and latent disturbances with hierarchical iterative learning and smoothed streaming meta-learning. |
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Wenli Xiao*, Tairan He*, John Dolan, Guanya Shi International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024 paper   website   video TL;DR: SafeDPA jointly tackles the problems of policy adaptation and safe reinforcement learning, under unseen disturbances in the real world. |
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Jacob Sacks, Rwik Rana, Kevin Huang, Alex Spitzer, Guanya Shi, Byron Boots International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024 paper   website   code TL;DR: DMPO learns the inner-loop optimizer of sampling-based MPC directly via experience, outperforming MPC and end-to-end RL baselines. |
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Xiaofeng Guo, Guanqi He, Mohammadreza Mousaei, Junyi Geng, Guanya Shi, Sebastian Scherer International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024 paper   website TL;DR: We introduce a new aerial manipulation system that leverages tactile feedback for accurate contact force control and texture detection. |
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Yikai Wang, Mengdi Xu, Guanya Shi, Ding Zhao IEEE International Automated Vehicle Validation Conference (IAVVC), 2024 (Best Paper Award - Innovation) paper   website   code   videoTL;DR: GYF is a safe falling and recovery framework that can actively tumble and recover to stable modes to reduce damage. |
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Andrew Wagenmaker, Guanya Shi, Kevin Jamieson Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023 (Spotlight, 3.1%) paperTL;DR: Not all model parameters are equally important. We develop an instance-optimal exploration algorithm for MBRL in nonlinear systems. |
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Yifang Chen, Yingbing Huang, Simon S. Du, Kevin Jamieson, Guanya Shi Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023 paper TL;DR: Inspired by robotics applications, we study algorithms for active representation learning with continuous task parametrization. |
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Kevin Huang, Rwik Rana, Alexander Spitzer, Guanya Shi, Byron Boots Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2023 (Oral presentation, 6.6%) paper   website   codeTL;DR: DATT can precisely track arbitrary, potentially infeasible trajectories in the presence of large disturbances. |
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Yuxiang Yang, Guanya Shi, Xiangyun Meng, Wenhao Yu, Tingnan Zhang, Jie Tan, Byron Boots Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2023 paper   video   website   code TL;DR: CAJun is a hierarchical learning and control framework that enables legged robots to jump continuously with adaptive distances. |
Wenqi Cui, Guanya Shi, Yuanyuan Shi, Baosen Zhang IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2023 paper TL;DR: We combine adaptive nonlinear control and neural control for frequency restoration in power systems. |
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Michael O'Connell*, Guanya Shi*, Xichen Shi, Kamyar Azizzadenesheli, Animashree Anandkumar, Yisong Yue, Soon-Jo Chung Science Robotics paper   video   Caltech news   Reuters   CNN   code TL;DR: Neural-Fly uses adaptive control to online fine-tune a meta-pretrained DNN representation, enabling rapid adaptation in strong winds. |
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Weici Pan, Guanya Shi, Yiheng Lin, Adam Wierman Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems (SIGMETRICS) paper TL;DR: We propose a new online optimization setting with delay and nonlinear switching cost, and provide compeititve algorithms. |
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Tongxin Li*, Ruixiao Yang*, Guannan Qu, Guanya Shi, Chenkai Yu, Adam Wierman, Steven Low Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems (SIGMETRICS) paper TL;DR: For online control with noisy predictions, we design an algorithm to optimally balance robustness and consistency (performance if no noise). |
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Chenkai Yu, Guanya Shi, Soon-Jo Chung, Yisong Yue, Adam Wierman American Control Conference (ACC), 2022 paper   blog TL;DR: We study MPC's dynamic regret and competitive ratio in the presence of prediction inaccuracy and feedback delay. |
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Yiheng Lin*, Yang Hu*, Guanya Shi*, Haoyuan Sun*, Guannan Qu*, Adam Wierman Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021 (Spotlight, 2.9%) paper   blogTL;DR: We prove MPC's dynamic regret and competitive ratio exponentially improve as its prediction gets longer, in LTV systems. |
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Guanya Shi, Kamyar Azizzadenesheli, Michael O'Connell, Soon-Jo Chung, Yisong Yue Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021 paper   code TL;DR: We present an online multi-task learning approach for adaptive nonlinear control with non-asymptotic guarantees. |
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Guanya Shi, Yifeng Zhu, Jonathan Tremblay, Stan Birchfield, Fabio Ramos, Animashree Anandkumar, Yuke Zhu International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021 paper   website   blog   code TL;DR: We develop a simple and efficient UQ method for 6-DoF pose estimation, and apply it in real-world grasping tasks. |
Guanya Shi, Wolfgang Hönig, Xichen Shi, Yisong Yue, Soon-Jo Chung IEEE Transactions on Robotics paper   video   Caltech news   Yahoo! news   code TL;DR: Neural-Swarm is a learning-based controller and planner for close-proximity flight of heterogeneous multirotor swarms. |
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Yashwanth Kumar Nakka, Anqi Liu, Guanya Shi, Animashree Anandkumar, Yisong Yue, Soon-Jo Chung IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) paper   blog TL;DR: We derive an iterative algorithm to solve information-cost stochastic nonlinear optimal control problems for safe episodic learning. |
Anqi Liu, Guanya Shi, Soon-Jo Chung, Animashree Anandkumar, Yisong Yue Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC), 2020 paper TL;DR: We derive generalization bounds under domain shift and connect them with safety bounds in control, for end-to-end safe explorations. |
Chenkai Yu, Guanya Shi, Soon-Jo Chung, Yisong Yue, Adam Wierman Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020 paper   video   blog TL;DR: We give the first non-asymptotic guarantee for MPC. MPC's dynamic regret exponentially decreases as its prediction gets longer. |
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Guanya Shi*, Yiheng Lin*, Soon-Jo Chung, Yisong Yue, Adam Wierman Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020 paper TL;DR: We show competitive algorithms for a new class of online optimization problems, with applications in online competitive control. |
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Guanya Shi, Wolfgang Hönig, Yisong Yue, Soon-Jo Chung International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020 paper   video   TL;DR: We deploy Deep Sets to learn complex interactions between multirotors, for decentralized close-proximity control. |
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Guanya Shi*, Xichen Shi*, Michael O'Connell*, Rose Yu, Kamyar Azizzadenesheli, Animashree Anandkumar, Yisong Yue, Soon-Jo Chung International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019 paper   video   Caltech homepage news   code TL;DR: Spectrally normalized deep learning and nonlinear control enable provably stable agile drone landing. |
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Hongbo Gao, Guanya Shi, Guotao Xie, Bo Cheng International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems paper TL;DR: We use inverse RL to learn reward models for human-like autonomous car following. |