Driving Reconfigurable Unmanned Vehicle Design for Mobility Performance

Abstract: Unmanned ground vehicles are being deployed in increasingly diverse and complex environments. Advances in the field of robotics, including perception technology, computing power, and machine learning, have brought robots from the lab to the real world. Remote and autonomous vehicles are now used to explore volcanoes, caves, pipes, war zones, disaster sites, and even [...]

Max-Affine Spline Insights into Deep Learning

Abstract:  We build a rigorous bridge between deep networks (DNs) and approximation theory via spline functions and operators. Our key result is that a large class of DNs can be written as a composition of max-affine spline operators (MASOs) that provide a powerful portal through which we view and analyze their inner workings. For instance, [...]