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Alan Papalia

Publications 3

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Sim-to-Real RL for ASVs using SysID

Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs) operating in dynamic marine environments require robust control policies for tasks such as path following and station keeping, making reinforcement learning (RL) a promising alternative to classical controllers. However, existing ASV simulators rarely support parallel environments for …

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SPARSER: Sparse Variable Projection by Exploiting Separable Structure in Robotic Perception

Robotic perception often requires solving large nonlinear least-squares (NLS) problems. While sparsity has been widely exploited to scale solvers, a complementary and underused structure is \emph{separability}: some variables, such as visual landmarks, appear linearly in the residuals and admit a closed-form solution o …

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