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
Interpretable and Efficient Data-driven Discovery and Control of Distributed Systems
Florian Wolf, Nicolò Botteghi, Urban Fasel, Andrea Manzoni
Design and control of a robotic payload stabilization mechanism for rocket flights
Utkarsh Anand, Diya Parekh, Thakur Pranav G. Singh, Hrishikesh S. Yadav, Ramya S. Moorthy, Srinivas G
Coupled autoregressive active inference agents for control of multi-joint dynamical systems
Tim N. Nisslbeck, Wouter M. Kouw
Dreaming to Assist: Learning to Align with Human Objectives for Shared Control in High-Speed Racing
Jonathan DeCastro, Andrew Silva, Deepak Gopinath, Emily Sumner, Thomas M. Balch, Laporsha Dees, Guy Rosman
Make the Pertinent Salient: Task-Relevant Reconstruction for Visual Control with Distractions
Kyungmin Kim, JB Lanier, Pierre Baldi, Charless Fowlkes, Roy Fox
Control the GNN: Utilizing Neural Controller with Lyapunov Stability for Test-Time Feature Reconstruction
Jielong Yang, Rui Ding, Feng Ji, Hongbin Wang, Linbo Xie
Design and Control of an Omnidirectional Aerial Robot with a Miniaturized Haptic Joystick for Physical Interaction
Julien Mellet, Andrea Berra, Salvatore Marcellini, Miguel Ángel Trujillo Soto, Guillermo Heredia, Fabio Ruggiero, Vincenzo Lippiello
Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Control of Adaptive Cell Populations
Josiah C. Kratz, Jacob Adamczyk
Tree-Based Leakage Inspection and Control in Concept Bottleneck Models
Angelos Ragkousis, Sonali Parbhoo
Meta-Learning Augmented MPC for Disturbance-Aware Motion Planning and Control of Quadrotors
Dženan Lapandić, Fengze Xie, Christos K. Verginis, Soon-Jo Chung, Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Bo Wahlberg
Design, Localization, Perception, and Control for GPS-Denied Autonomous Aerial Grasping and Harvesting
Ashish Kumar, Laxmidhar Behera