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Russ Tedrake

Russ Tedrake

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
74
Citations
19112
World Ranking
724
National Ranking
321

Overview

Russ Tedrake is affiliated with MIT in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with significant contributions to several subfields such as Control and Systems Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Engineering, and Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design.

The scientist's main topics of research include:

  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
  • Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics
  • Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation
  • Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
  • Robotic Locomotion and Control

Russ Tedrake has published extensively in well-known venues, including a large number of papers on arXiv (Cornell University) as well as contributions to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, The International Journal of Robotics Research, Science Robotics, and IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Tedrake include:

  • Diffusion policy: Visuomotor policy learning via action diffusion (2024) - The International Journal of Robotics Research
  • Motion planning around obstacles with convex optimization (2023) - Science Robotics
  • Global Planning for Contact-Rich Manipulation via Local Smoothing of Quasi-Dynamic Contact Models (2023) - IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • kPAM 2.0: Feedback Control for Category-Level Robotic Manipulation (2021) - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Shortest Paths in Graphs of Convex Sets (2024) - SIAM Journal on Optimization

Frequent collaborators who have co-authored multiple publications with Russ Tedrake include Alexandre Amice, Tobia Marcucci, H. J. Terry Suh, Hongkai Dai, and Max Simchowitz.

Russ Tedrake's work covers broad aspects of robotics, combining advanced mathematical methods with system-level control and learning techniques. Their research outputs reflect interplay between theoretical developments and applications in robotic manipulation, path planning, and optimization under complex constraints.

Best Publications

  • Efficient bipedal robots based on passive-dynamic walkers.

    Steve Collins;Andy Ruina;Russ Tedrake;Martijn Wisse

  • Optimization-based locomotion planning, estimation, and control design for the atlas humanoid robot

    Scott Kuindersma;Robin Deits;Maurice Fallon;Andrés Valenzuela

  • A direct method for trajectory optimization of rigid bodies through contact

    Michael Posa;Cecilia Cantu;Russ Tedrake

  • LQR-trees: Feedback Motion Planning via Sums-of-Squares Verification

    Russ Tedrake;Ian R. Manchester;Mark Tobenkin;John W. Roberts

  • Evaluating Robustness of Neural Networks with Mixed Integer Programming

    Vincent Tjeng;Kai Yuanqing Xiao;Russ Tedrake

  • Whole-body motion planning with centroidal dynamics and full kinematics

    Hongkai Dai;Andres Valenzuela;Russ Tedrake

  • Belief space planning assuming maximum likelihood observations

    Robert Platt;Russell Louis Tedrake;Leslie P. Kaelbling;Tomas Lozano-Perez

  • Stochastic policy gradient reinforcement learning on a simple 3D biped

    R. Tedrake;T.W. Zhang;H.S. Seung

  • Funnel libraries for real-time robust feedback motion planning:

    Anirudha Majumdar;Russell L Tedrake

  • Footstep planning on uneven terrain with mixed-integer convex optimization

    Robin Deits;Russ Tedrake

  • Dynamics and trajectory optimization for a soft spatial fluidic elastomer manipulator

    Andrew D. Marchese;Russ Tedrake;Daniela Rus

  • Actuating a simple 3D passive dynamic walker

    R. Tedrake;T.W. Zhang;Ming-fai Fong;H.S. Seung

  • Velocity-Based Stability Margins for Fast Bipedal Walking

    J.E. Pratt;R. Tedrake

  • Stable dynamic walking over uneven terrain

    Ian R Manchester;Uwe Mettin;Fumiya Iida;Russ Tedrake

  • An efficiently solvable quadratic program for stabilizing dynamic locomotion

    Scott Kuindersma;Frank Noble Permenter;Russell Louis Tedrake

  • Computing Large Convex Regions of Obstacle-Free Space Through Semidefinite Programming

    Robin Deits;Russ Tedrake

  • LQR-Trees: Feedback motion planning on sparse randomized trees

    Russell Louis Tedrake

  • Efficient mixed-integer planning for UAVs in cluttered environments

    Robin Deits;Russ Tedrake

  • Experiments in Fixed-Wing UAV Perching

    Rick Cory;Russ Tedrake

  • kPAM: KeyPoint Affordances for Category-Level Robotic Manipulation.

    Lucas Manuelli;Wei Gao;Peter R. Florence;Russ Tedrake

  • Learning Particle Dynamics for Manipulating Rigid Bodies, Deformable Objects, and Fluids

    Yunzhu Li;Jiajun Wu;Russ Tedrake;Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Frequent Co-Authors

Fumiya Iida
Fumiya Iida University of Cambridge
Jun-Yan Zhu
Jun-Yan Zhu Carnegie Mellon University
Jiajun Wu
Jiajun Wu Stanford University
Christopher G. Atkeson
Christopher G. Atkeson Carnegie Mellon University
Ludovic Righetti
Ludovic Righetti New York University
Ambarish Goswami
Ambarish Goswami Intuitive Surgical (United States)

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