External Control
External control research focuses on developing methods to precisely manipulate and regulate the behavior of complex systems, ranging from robots and large language models to physical processes and biological systems. Current research emphasizes the development of robust and efficient control algorithms, often leveraging deep reinforcement learning, model predictive control, and generative models, alongside novel architectures like hybrid systems and multi-agent approaches. These advancements are crucial for improving the performance, safety, and adaptability of autonomous systems across diverse applications, from robotics and manufacturing to healthcare and environmental monitoring. The development of more efficient and generalizable control methods remains a key focus.
Papers
Addressing Discontinuous Root-Finding for Subsequent Differentiability in Machine Learning, Inverse Problems, and Control
Daniel Johnson, Ronald Fedkiw
Static-Equilibrium Oriented Interaction Force Modeling and Control of Aerial Manipulation with Uni-Directional Thrust Multirotors
Tong Hui, Matteo Fumagalli
Modeling and Control of a Novel Variable Stiffness Three DoFs Wrist
Giuseppe Milazzo, Manuel Giuseppe Catalano, Antonio Bicchi, Giorgio Grioli
MTCue: Learning Zero-Shot Control of Extra-Textual Attributes by Leveraging Unstructured Context in Neural Machine Translation
Sebastian Vincent, Robert Flynn, Carolina Scarton
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Control for Stomach Coverage Scanning of Wireless Capsule Endoscopy
Yameng Zhang, Long Bai, Li Liu, Hongliang Ren, Max Q. -H. Meng
Actor-Critic Methods using Physics-Informed Neural Networks: Control of a 1D PDE Model for Fluid-Cooled Battery Packs
Amartya Mukherjee, Jun Liu
A Generalist Dynamics Model for Control
Ingmar Schubert, Jingwei Zhang, Jake Bruce, Sarah Bechtle, Emilio Parisotto, Martin Riedmiller, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Arunkumar Byravan, Leonard Hasenclever, Nicolas Heess