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
Safe Hybrid-Action Reinforcement Learning-Based Decision and Control for Discretionary Lane Change
Ruichen Xu, Xiao Liu, Jinming Xu, Yuan Lin
Model-Based Planning and Control for Terrestrial-Aerial Bimodal Vehicles with Passive Wheels
Ruibin Zhang, Junxiao Lin, Yuze Wu, Yuman Gao, Chi Wang, Chao Xu, Yanjun Cao, Fei Gao
Navigation and Control of Unconventional VTOL UAVs in Forward-Flight with Explicit Wind Velocity Estimation
Mitchell Cohen, James Richard Forbes
TEXterity -- Tactile Extrinsic deXterity: Simultaneous Tactile Estimation and Control for Extrinsic Dexterity
Sangwoon Kim, Antonia Bronars, Parag Patre, Alberto Rodriguez
Scalable Interactive Machine Learning for Future Command and Control
Anna Madison, Ellen Novoseller, Vinicius G. Goecks, Benjamin T. Files, Nicholas Waytowich, Alfred Yu, Vernon J. Lawhern, Steven Thurman, Christopher Kelshaw, Kaleb McDowell
Re-Envisioning Command and Control
Kaleb McDowell, Ellen Novoseller, Anna Madison, Vinicius G. Goecks, Christopher Kelshaw
ControlUDA: Controllable Diffusion-assisted Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Cross-Weather Semantic Segmentation
Fengyi Shen, Li Zhou, Kagan Kucukaytekin, Ziyuan Liu, He Wang, Alois Knoll
Machine learning for industrial sensing and control: A survey and practical perspective
Nathan P. Lawrence, Seshu Kumar Damarla, Jong Woo Kim, Aditya Tulsyan, Faraz Amjad, Kai Wang, Benoit Chachuat, Jong Min Lee, Biao Huang, R. Bhushan Gopaluni
DittoGym: Learning to Control Soft Shape-Shifting Robots
Suning Huang, Boyuan Chen, Huazhe Xu, Vincent Sitzmann