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Optimal Solutions for the Moving Target Vehicle Routing Problem with Obstacles via Lazy Branch and Price

Anoop Bhat, Geordan Gutow, Surya Singh, Zhongqiang Ren, Sivakumar Rathinam, Howie Choset · 2026

The Moving Target Vehicle Routing Problem with Obstacles (MT-VRP-O) seeks trajectories for several agents that collectively intercept a set of moving targets. Each target has one or more time windows …

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Lazy-DaSH: Lazy Approach for Hypergraph-based Multi-robot Task and Motion Planning

Seongwon Lee, James Motes, Isaac Ngui, Marco Morales, Nancy M. Amato · 2025

We introduce Lazy-DaSH, an improvement over the recent state of the art multi-robot task and motion planning method DaSH, which scales to more than double the number of robots and objects compared to …

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Adaptive Finite State Projection with Quantile-Based Pruning for Solving the Chemical Master Equation

Aditya Dendukuri, Linda Petzold · 2025

We present an adaptive Finite State Projection (FSP) method for efficiently solving the Chemical Master Equation (CME) with rigorous error control. Our approach integrates time-stepping with dynamic s…

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A Generative Framework for Bidirectional Image-Report Understanding in Chest Radiography

Nicholas Evans, Stephen Baker, Miles Reed · 2025

The rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs) have unlocked their potential for multimodal tasks, where text and visual data are processed jointly. However, applying LLMs to medical imaging, …

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RobocupGym: A challenging continuous control benchmark in Robocup

Michael Beukman, Branden Ingram, Geraud Nangue Tasse, Benjamin Rosman, Pravesh Ranchod · 2024

Reinforcement learning (RL) has progressed substantially over the past decade, with much of this progress being driven by benchmarks. Many benchmarks are focused on video or board games, and a large n…

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C$^3$P-VoxelMap: Compact, Cumulative and Coalescible Probabilistic Voxel Mapping

Xu Yang, Wenhao Li, Qijie Ge, Lulu Suo, Weijie Tang, Zhengyu Wei, Longxiang Huang, Bo Wang · 2024

This work presents a compact, cumulative and coalescible probabilistic voxel mapping method to enhance performance, accuracy and memory efficiency in LiDAR odometry. Probabilistic voxel mapping requir…

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Learning Robot Manipulation from Cross-Morphology Demonstration

Gautam Salhotra, I-Chun Arthur Liu, Gaurav Sukhatme · 2023

Some Learning from Demonstrations (LfD) methods handle small mismatches in the action spaces of the teacher and student. Here we address the case where the teacher's morphology is substantially differ…

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Wireless Network Demands of Data Products from Small Uncrewed Aerial Systems at Hurricane Ian

Thomas Manzini, Robin Murphy, David Merrick, Justin Adams · 2023

Data collected at Hurricane Ian (2022) quantifies the demands that small uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), or drones, place on the network communication infrastructure and identifies gaps in the field. D…

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Continuous Implicit SDF Based Any-shape Robot Trajectory Optimization

Tingrui Zhang, Jingping Wang, Chao Xu, Alan Gao, Fei Gao · 2023

Optimization-based trajectory generation methods are widely used in whole-body planning for robots. However, existing work either oversimplifies the robot's geometry and environment representation, re…

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Policy-Guided Lazy Search with Feedback for Task and Motion Planning

Mohamed Khodeir, Atharv Sonwane, Ruthrash Hari, Florian Shkurti · 2022

PDDLStream solvers have recently emerged as viable solutions for Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) problems, extending PDDL to problems with continuous action spaces. Prior work has shown how PDDLStream…

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MICAL: Mutual Information-Based CNN-Aided Learned Factor Graphs for Seizure Detection from EEG Signals

Bahareh Salafian, Eyal Fishel Ben-Knaan, Nir Shlezinger, Sandrine de Ribaupierre, Nariman Farsad · 2022

We develop a hybrid model-based data-driven seizure detection algorithm called Mutual Information-based CNNAided Learned factor graphs (MICAL) for detection of eclectic seizures from EEG signals. Our …

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Lazy Rearrangement Planning in Confined Spaces

Rui Wang, Kai Gao, Jingjin Yu, Kostas Bekris · 2022

Object rearrangement is important for many applications but remains challenging, especially in confined spaces, such as shelves, where objects cannot be accessed from above and they block reachability…

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Leveraging Experience in Lazy Search

Mohak Bhardwaj, Sanjiban Choudhury, Byron Boots, Siddhartha Srinivasa · 2021

Lazy graph search algorithms are efficient at solving motion planning problems where edge evaluation is the computational bottleneck. These algorithms work by lazily computing the shortest potentially…

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A secure home automation prototype built on raspberry-pi

Arya Tanmay Gupta, Himani Gupta, Muskan Sharma, Priyanka Khanna · 2021

With the development of sensors, wireless mobile communication, embedded system, the technologies of the Internet of Things have been widely used in SmartMeter, public security, intelligent building a…

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Search-based Path Planning for a High Dimensional Manipulator in Cluttered Environments Using Optimization-based Primitives

Muhammad Suhail Saleem, Raghav Sood, Sho Onodera, Rohit Arora, Hiroyuki Kanazawa, Maxim Likhachev · 2021

In this work we tackle the path planning problem for a 21-dimensional snake robot-like manipulator, navigating a cluttered gas turbine for the purposes of inspection. Heuristic search based approaches…

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Lazy Lifelong Planning for Efficient Replanning in Graphs with Expensive Edge Evaluation

Jaein Lim, Siddhartha Srinivasa, Panagiotis Tsiotras · 2021

We present an incremental search algorithm, called Lifelong-GLS, which combines the vertex efficiency of Lifelong Planning A* (LPA*) and the edge efficiency of Generalized Lazy Search (GLS) for effici…

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Autonomous Vehicle Benchmarking using Unbiased Metrics

David Paz, Po-jung Lai, Nathan Chan, Yuqing Jiang, Henrik I. Christensen · 2020

With the recent development of autonomous vehicle technology, there have been active efforts on the deployment of this technology at different scales that include urban and highway driving. While many…

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Leveraging Experience in Lazy Search

Mohak Bhardwaj, Sanjiban Choudhury, Byron Boots, Siddhartha Srinivasa · 2019

Lazy graph search algorithms are efficient at solving motion planning problems where edge evaluation is the computational bottleneck. These algorithms work by lazily computing the shortest potentially…

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Development of a robotic system for automatic organic chemistry synthesis

Joyce Xin-Yan Lim, Dasheng Leow, Quang-Cuong Pham, Choon-Hong Tan · 2019

Automated chemical synthesis carries great promises of safety, efficiency and reproducibility for both research and industry laboratories. Current approaches are based on specifically-designed automat…

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Generalized Lazy Search for Robot Motion Planning: Interleaving Search and Edge Evaluation via Event-based Toggles

Aditya Mandalika, Sanjiban Choudhury, Oren Salzman, Siddhartha Srinivasa · 2019

Lazy search algorithms can efficiently solve problems where edge evaluation is the bottleneck in computation, as is the case for robotic motion planning. The optimal algorithm in this class, LazySP, l…

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