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Maximilian Adang
dblp:395/5389
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 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 |
Robot manipulation · 44% Reinforcement learning · 44% Legged, aerial and field robots · 13% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Robotics › Robot manipulation
robot safety |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Learning Robot Safety From Sparse Human Feedback Using Conformal Prediction · IEEE Trans. Robotics 2026 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › safe reinforcement learning
safe policy learning |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Learning Robot Safety From Sparse Human Feedback Using Conformal Prediction · IEEE Trans. Robotics 2026 |
Robotics › Legged, aerial and field robots › aerial robots › UAV navigation
quadcopter navigation |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Learning Robot Safety From Sparse Human Feedback Using Conformal Prediction · IEEE Trans. Robotics 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
nearest neighbor classification · 1.0model predictive control · 1.0conformal prediction · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Learning Robot Safety From Sparse Human Feedback Using Conformal PredictionabstractEnsuring robot safety can be challenging; user-defined constraints can miss edge cases, policies can become unsafe even when trained from safe data, and safety can be subjective. Thus, we learn about robot safety by showing policy trajectories to a human who flags unsafe behavior. From this binary feedback, we use the statistical method of conformal prediction to identify a region of states, potentially in learned latent space, guaranteed to contain a user-specified fraction of future policy errors. Our method is sample-efficient, as it builds on nearest neighbor classification and avoids withholding data as is common with conformal prediction. By alerting if the robot reaches the suspected unsafe region, we obtain a warning system that mimics the human's safety preferences with guaranteed miss rate. From video labeling, our system can detect when a quadcopter visuomotor policy will fail to steer through a designated gate. We present an approach for policy improvement by avoiding the suspected unsafe region. With it we improve a model predictive controller's safety, as shown in experimental testing with 30 quadcopter flights across 6 navigation tasks. Code and videos are provided. Aaron O. Feldman, Joseph A. Vincent, Maximilian Adang, Mac Schwager |
IEEE Trans. Robotics | 3 |