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Manan Tayal
dblp:321/4243
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Motion planning and robot control · 60% Reinforcement learning · 40% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
constrained reinforcement learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | A Physics-Informed Machine Learning Framework for Safe and Optimal Control of Autonomous Systems · ICML 2025 |
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control › robot control › safe control
control barrier functions |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | A Physics-Informed Machine Learning Framework for Safe and Optimal Control of Autonomous Systems · ICML 2025 |
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control
reachability analysis |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | A Physics-Informed Machine Learning Framework for Safe and Optimal Control of Autonomous Systems · ICML 2025 |
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control › robot control
safe control |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | A Physics-Informed Machine Learning Framework for Safe and Optimal Control of Autonomous Systems · ICML 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
safe reinforcement learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | A Physics-Informed Machine Learning Framework for Safe and Optimal Control of Autonomous Systems · ICML 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
physics-informed machine learning · 0.9hamilton-jacobi-bellman equation · 0.9conformal prediction · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | A Physics-Informed Machine Learning Framework for Safe and Optimal Control of Autonomous SystemsabstractAs autonomous systems become more ubiquitous in daily life, ensuring high performance with guaranteed safety is crucial. However, safety and performance could be competing objectives, which makes their co-optimization difficult. Learning-based methods, such as Constrained Reinforcement Learning (CRL), achieve strong performance but lack formal safety guarantees due to safety being enforced as soft constraints, limiting their use in safety-critical settings. Conversely, formal methods such as Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) Reachability Analysis and Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) provide rigorous safety assurances but often neglect performance, resulting in overly conservative controllers. To bridge this gap, we formulate the co-optimization of safety and performance as a state-constrained optimal control problem, where performance objectives are encoded via a cost function and safety requirements are imposed as state constraints.
We demonstrate that the resultant value function satisfies a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation, which we approximate efficiently using a novel physics-informed machine learning framework. In addition, we introduce a conformal prediction-based verification strategy to quantify the learning errors, recovering a high-confidence safety value function, along with a probabilistic error bound on performance degradation. Through several case studies, we demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed framework in enabling scalable learning of safe and performant controllers for complex, high-dimensional autonomous systems. Manan Tayal, Shishir Kolathaya, Somil Bansal |
ICML | 1 |