Leveraging Environmental Dynamics for Planning and Control

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Relevant Papers

  • A. Mansfield, D. G. Macharet, and M. A. Hsieh. “Energy-efficient Orienteering Problem in the Presence of Ocean Currents,” submitted to the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2022), Kyoto, Japan, Oct 2022.
  • G. Knizhnik, P. Li, X. Yu, and M. A. Hsieh. “Flow-Based Control of Marine Robots in Gyre-Like Environments,” accepted to IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2022), May 2022, Philadelphia, PA USA, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.00796.
  • A. Mansfield, D. Kularatne, E. Steager, and M. A. Hsieh. “A Topological Approach to Path Planning for a Magnetic Millirobot,”in the Prof. of the 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2020), Oct 2020, Las Vegas, NV USA (Virtual).
  • T. Salam, D. Kularatne, E. Forgoston, and M. A. Hsieh. “Adaptive Sampling and Energy Efficient Navigation in Time-Varying Flows,” in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: Design and Practice, eds. F. Ehlers, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2020, eISBN: 978-1-78561-704-1.
  • D. Kularatne, M. A. Hsieh, and E. Forgoston. “Using Control to Shape Stochastic Escape and Switching Dynamics,” in Chaos, 29(5), May 2019, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5090113.
  • D. Kularatne, E. Forgoston, and M. A. Hsieh. “Exploiting Stochasticity for Navigation in Gyre Flows,” in the Proc. of the 2018 Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS 2018), Jun 2018, Pittsburgh, PA USA, https://doi.org/10.15607/RSS.2018.XIV.060.
  • D. Kularatne, H. Hajieghrary, and M. A. Hsieh. “Optimal Path Planning in Time-Varying Flows with Forecasting Uncertainties,” in the Proc. of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2018), May 2018, Brisbane, Australia.
  • D. Kularatne, S. Bhattacharya, and M. A. Hsieh. “Optimal Path Planning in Time-Varying Flows using Adaptive Discretization,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 3(1), Jan 2018, pp. 458 – 465.
  • S. Das, E. B. Steager, M. A. Hsieh, K. J. Stebe, and V. Kumar. “Modelling and Simultaneous Control of Multiple Catalytic Microrobots,” in J. of Micro-Bio Robotics, 14(1-2), pp. 25 – 34, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12213-018-0106-1.
  • J19. D. Kularatne, S. Bhattacharya, and M. A. Hsieh. “Going With The Flow: A Graph Based Approach to Optimal Path Planning in General Flows,” Autonomous Robots: RSS 2016 Special Issue, 42(7), Oct 2018, pp 1369 – 1387, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-018-9741-6.
  • D. Kularatne, S. Bhattacharya, M. A. Hsieh. “Time and Energy Optimal Path Planning on a Flow Field,” in the Proc. of the 2016 Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS2016), Jun 2016, Ann Arbor, MI USA.
  • M. A. Hsieh, H. Hajieghrary, D. Kularatne, C. R. Heckman, E. Forgoston, I. B. Schwartz, and P. A. Yecko. “Small and Adrift with Self-Control: Using the Environment to Improve Autonomy,” in the Proc. of the 2015 International Symposium on Robotics Research, Sep 2015, Sestri Levante, Italy.
  • C. Heckman, I. B. Schwartz, and M. A. Hsieh. “Toward Efficient Navigation in Uncertain Gyre-Like Flows,” International Journal of Robotics Research: Special Issue on ISER 2014, 34(13), pp. 1590 – 1603, Nov. 2015.
  • J30. C. Heckman, M. A. Hsieh, and I. B. Schwartz. “Going with the flow: enhancing stochastic switching rates in multi-gyre systems,” ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control: Special Issue on Stochastic Models, Control, and Algorithms in Robotics, 137(3), pp. 031006–031006–6, Oct 2014.
  • C. R. Heckman, M. A. Hsieh, and I. B. Schwartz. “Controlling Basin Breakout for Robots Operating in Uncertain Flow Environments”, in the Proc. of the 2014 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER 2014), Jun 2014, Marrkech/Essaouira, Morocco.
  • M. A. Hsieh, K. Mallory, E. Forgoston, and I. B. Schwartz. “Distributed Allocation of Mobile Sensing Agents in Geophysical Flows,” in the Proc. of the 2014 American Control Conference (ACC 2014), Jun 2014, Portland, Oregon USA.
  • K. Mallory, M. A. Hsieh, E. Forgoston, and I. B. Schwartz. “Distributed Allocation of Mobile Sensing Swarms in Gyre Flows,” Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 20(5), pp. 657 – 668, 2013.

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