PhD Thesis Defense
PhD Student
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Differentiable Convex Modeling for Robotic Planning and Control

NSH 4305

Abstract: Robotic simulation, planning, estimation, and control, have all been built on top of numerical optimization. In this same time, modern convex optimization has matured into a robust technology delivering globally optimal solutions in polynomial time. With advances in differentiable optimization and custom solvers capable of producing smooth derivatives, convex modeling has become fast, reliable, [...]