RESEARCH SELECTED ALL PAPERS SOFTWARE PEOPLE LAB CLASSES

REVIEWS

Optimal control theory (2006)
Optimality principles in sensorimotor control (2004)

LINEARLY-SOLVABLE OPTIMAL CONTROL

A unifying framework for linearly-solvable control (2011)
Finding the most likely trajectories of optimally-controlled stochastic systems (2011)
Policy gradients in linearly-solvable MDPs (2010)
Inverse optimal control with linearly-solvable MDPs (2010)
Compositionality of optimal control laws (2009)
Efficient computation of optimal actions (2009)
General duality between optimal control and estimation (2008)
Eigenfunction approximations methods for linearly-solvable optimal control problems (2008)
Linearly-solvable Markov decision problems (2006)

CONTROL OF (SIMULATED AND REAL) ROBOTS

First-exit model predictive control of fast discontinuous dynamics: Application to ball bouncing (2010)
Fast model-predictive control for complex motor behavior (2010)
Identification and control of a pneumatic robot (2010)
movies: Ball bouncing; Interactive swimmers; Full-body tracking; Gallery of runs

CONTACT DYNAMICS

A convex, smooth and invertible contact model for trajectory optimization (2010)
Implicit nonlinear complementarity: A new approach to contact dynamics (2010)
Stochastic complementarity for local control of discontinuous dynamics (2010)
movies: Ellipse spinning; Accidental dancing; 3D walking

HIERARCHICAL CONTROL

Compositionality of optimal control laws (2009)
A hierarchical framework for approximately-optimal control of redundant manipulators (2005)
Unsupervised learning of sensory-motor primitives (2003)
movies: Pneumatic robot arm; Simulated human arm

MOVIES

EXTENDED LINEAR-QUADRATIC-GAUSSIAN METHODS

Optimal trade-off between exploration and exploitation (2008)
Probabilistic inference of multi-joint movements, skeletal parameters and marker attachments from diverse sensor data (2007)
A generalized iterative LQG method for locally-optimal feedback control of constrained nonlinear stochastic systems (2005)
Stochastic optimal control and estimation methods adapted to the noise characteristics of the sensorimotor system (2005)

NEURAL CONTROL OF MOVEMENT

Parallels between sensory and motor information processing (2008)
Evidence for the flexible sesorimotor strategies predicted by optimal feedback control (2007)
Optimal feedback control as a theory of motor coordination (2002)
Cosine tuning minimized motor errors (2002)
Direct cortical control of muscle activation (2000)

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