Motion planning around obstacles with convex optimization

T Marcucci, M Petersen, D von Wrangel, R Tedrake - Science robotics, 2023 - science.org
From quadrotors delivering packages in urban areas to robot arms moving in confined
warehouses, motion planning around obstacles is a core challenge in modern robotics …

Fast path planning through large collections of safe boxes

T Marcucci, P Nobel, R Tedrake, S Boyd - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.01072, 2023 - arxiv.org
We present a fast algorithm for the design of smooth paths (or trajectories) that are
constrained to lie in a collection of axis-aligned boxes. We consider the case where the …

Towards tight convex relaxations for contact-rich manipulation

BP Graesdal, SYC Chia, T Marcucci, S Morozov… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present a method for global motion planning of robotic systems that interact with the
environment through contacts. Our method directly handles the hybrid nature of such tasks …

A computational framework towards the tele-rehabilitation of balance control skills

K Akbas, C Mummolo - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Mobility has been one of the most impacted aspects of human life due to the spread of the
COVID-19 pandemic. Home confinement, the lack of access to physical rehabilitation, and …

Automatic gait pattern selection for legged robots

J Wang, I Chatzinikolaidis, C Mastalli… - 2020 IEEE/RSJ …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An important issue when synthesizing legged locomotion plans is the combinatorial
complexity that arises from gait pattern selection. Though it can be defined manually, the gait …

Whole body motion generation with centroidal dynamics of legged robots using sequential bounds tightening of mccormick envelopes

JC Rojas-Rodriguez, AY Aguilar-Bustos… - Robotics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper we introduce a Sequential Convex Programming (SCP) algorithm for the
motion generation with the centroidal dynamics of legged robots using a sequential bounds …

An Algorithm for the Computation of the Centroidal Dynamics with Application in the Postural Balance of a Humanoid Robot Using Whole Body Control

JC Rojas-Rodriguez, AY Aguilar-Bustos… - International Journal of …, 2021 - World Scientific
In this paper, we introduce an O (N) algorithm for the computation of the centroidal
momentum matrix (CMM) and its time derivative using spatial algebra and expressed with …

Variational Inference Data-driven Gait Model for Biped Trajectory Generation

B Singh, S Patel, A Vijayvargiya… - 2022 IEEE IAS Global …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Biped robot trajectory generation is a very complex task for real-world uneven terrain. This
work presents the gait model based on data-driven to address the issue of traipse ground …