Soft robotics as an enabling technology for agroforestry practice and research

G Chowdhary, M Gazzola, G Krishnan, C Soman… - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
The shortage of qualified human labor is a key challenge facing farmers, limiting profit
margins and preventing the adoption of sustainable and diversified agroecosystems, such …

[PDF][PDF] Automorphing Kernels for Nonstationarity in Mapping Unstructured Environments.

R Senanayake, A Tompkins, F Ramos - CoRL, 2018 - researchgate.net
In order to deploy robots in previously unseen and unstructured environments, the robots
should have the capacity to learn on their own and adapt to the changes in the …

Agbots 3.0: Adaptive weed growth prediction for mechanical weeding agbots

W McAllister, J Whitman, J Varghese… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents advances in predictive modeling of weed growth, as well as an improved
planning index to be used in conjunction with these techniques, for the purpose of improving …

Estimation of spatially-correlated ocean currents from ensemble forecasts and online measurements

KYC To, FH Kong, KMB Lee, C Yoo… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a method to estimate two-dimensional, time-invariant oceanic flow fields based
on data from both ensemble forecasts and online measurements. Our method produces a …

Multi-agent planning for coordinated robotic weed killing

W McAllister, D Osipychev… - 2018 IEEE/RSJ …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a strategy for coordinated multi-agent weeding under conditions of
partial environmental information. The goal of this work is to demonstrate the feasibility of …

Laplacian regularized motion tomography for underwater vehicle flow mapping with sporadic localization measurements

O Meriam, H Mengxue, Z Fumin - Autonomous Robots, 2024 - Springer
Localization measurements for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) are often difficult
to obtain. In many cases, localization measurements are only available sporadically after the …

Evolving gaussian processes and kernel observers for learning and control in spatiotemporally varying domains: With applications in agriculture, weather monitoring …

JE Whitman, H Maske, HA Kingravi… - IEEE Control Systems …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Monitoring and modeling large-scale stochastic phenomena with both spatial and temporal
(spatiotemporal) evolution by using a network of distributed sensors is a critical problem in …

Informative planning for worst-case error minimisation in sparse gaussian process regression

J Wakulicz, KMB Lee, C Yoo… - … on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a planning framework for min-imising the deterministic worst-case error in
sparse Gaus-sian process (GP) regression. We first derive a univer-sal worst-case error …

Learning dynamics across similar spatiotemporally-evolving physical systems

J Whitman, G Chowdhary - Conference on Robot Learning, 2017 - proceedings.mlr.press
We present a differentially-constrained machine learning model that can generalize over
similar spatiotemporally evolving dynamical systems. It is shown that not only can an E-GP …

On sparse identification of complex dynamical systems: A study on discovering influential reactions in chemical reaction networks

F Harirchi, D Kim, O Khalil, S Liu, P Elvati, M Baranwal… - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
A wide variety of real life complex networks are prohibitively large for modeling, analysis and
control. Understanding the structure and dynamics of such networks entails creating a …