University of Washington, Seattle
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The Autonomous Controls Lab (ACL) develops methodologies and algorithms based on convex optimization for trajectory planning, robust control, and optimal recursive decision-making across various autonomous dynamical systems.
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Research Highlight
DLCvx: Lossless Convexification to discrete-time optimal control problems.
We optimize location, timing, magnitude and direction of a finite number of impulses to maximize loitering time around a given target, while satisfying state path constraints continuously over the full time-horizon.
QOCO, a C-based solver for second-order cone programs with quadratic objectives using a primal-dual interior point method, and QOCOGEN, a code generator that creates faster and library-free custom solvers for specific problem families.
A smooth, sound and complete robustness measure (D-GMSR) to integrate temporal and logical specifications into optimization problems.
Successive convexification, a real-time solution for nonconvex trajectory optimization that ensures continuous-time constraint satisfaction, guaranteed convergence, and robust performance.
Constrained Visibility Guidance (CVG) presents a novel approach to modeling terrain scanning constraints for powered landing maneuvers using a theory of constrained conic intersections.
HALO presents a combined perception (HALSS) and trajectory planning (Adaptive-DDTO) solution towards contingency planning for landing maneuvers with multiple candidate landing sites.
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Principal Investigator
Prof. Behçet Açıkmeşe
Professor in Aerospace Optimization and Control
Aeronautics & Astronautics
behcet@uw.edu