Learning-aware safety for interactive autonomy

H Hu, Z Zhang, K Nakamura, A Bajcsy… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
One of the outstanding challenges for the widespread deployment of robotic systems like
autonomous vehicles is ensuring safe interaction with humans without sacrificing efficiency …

Deception game: Closing the safety-learning loop in interactive robot autonomy

H Hu, Z Zhang, K Nakamura, A Bajcsy… - 7th Annual Conference …, 2023 - openreview.net
An outstanding challenge for the widespread deployment of robotic systems like
autonomous vehicles is ensuring safe interaction with humans without sacrificing …

Mixed-Strategy Nash Equilibrium for Crowd Navigation

M Sun, F Baldini, P Trautman, T Murphey - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We address the problem of finding mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium for crowd navigation.
Mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium provides a rigorous model for the robot to anticipate …

Risk-Calibrated Human-Robot Interaction via Set-Valued Intent Prediction

J Lidard, H Pham, A Bachman, B Boateng… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Tasks where robots must cooperate with humans, such as navigating around a cluttered
home or sorting everyday items, are challenging because they exhibit a wide range of valid …

RACP: Risk-Aware Contingency Planning with Multi-Modal Predictions

KA Mustafa, DJ Ornia, J Kober… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
For an autonomous vehicle to operate reliably within real-world traffic scenarios, it is
imperative to assess the repercussions of its prospective actions by anticipating the …

Blending Data-Driven Priors in Dynamic Games

J Lidard, H Hu, A Hancock, Z Zhang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
As intelligent robots like autonomous vehicles become increasingly deployed in the
presence of people, the extent to which these systems should leverage model-based game …

A Sequential Quadratic Programming Approach to the Solution of Open-Loop Generalized Nash Equilibria for Autonomous Racing

EL Zhu, F Borrelli - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.00186, 2024 - arxiv.org
Dynamic games can be an effective approach for modeling interactive behavior between
multiple competitive agents in autonomous racing and they provide a theoretical framework …

Auto-Encoding Bayesian Inverse Games

X Liu, L Peters, J Alonso-Mora, U Topcu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
When multiple agents interact in a common environment, each agent's actions impact others'
future decisions, and noncooperative dynamic games naturally capture this coupling. In …

Scalable Multi-modal Model Predictive Control via Duality-based Interaction Predictions

H Kim, SH Nair, F Borrelli - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.01116, 2024 - arxiv.org
We propose a hierarchical architecture designed for scalable real-time Model Predictive
Control (MPC) in complex, multi-modal traffic scenarios. This architecture comprises two key …

Intent Demonstration in General-Sum Dynamic Games via Iterative Linear-Quadratic Approximations

J Li, A Siththaranjan, S Sojoudi, C Tomlin… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Autonomous agents should be able to coordinate with other agents without knowing their
intents ahead of time. While prior work has studied how agents can gather information about …