Robust Motion Planning

Traditional motion planning methods often fail to provide formal robust safety and performance guarantees. My research leverages Hamilton-Jacobi reachability analysis and differential games to compute provably safe motion plans in time-varying and adversarial environments under parametric uncertainty. This work also addresses stochastic trajectory optimization for handling uncertainties in contact interactions.

Related Publications

    1. Gazar22 icon
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      A. Gazar, M. Khadiv, Sébastien Kleff, A. D. Prete, L. Righetti, "Nonlinear stochastic trajectory optimization for centroidal momentum motion generation of legged robots", The International Symposium of Robotics Research, ISR 2022, 2022.
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    2. KleffRobotica20 icon
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      Sébastien Kleff, N. Li, "Robust Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments Based on Sampled-Data Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability", Robotica, 2020.
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    3. KleffCCDC2018 icon
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      Sébastien Kleff, N. Li, "A sampled-data Hamilton-Jacobi reachability approach to safe and robust motion planning", Chinese Control And Decision Conference (CCDC), 2018.
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