SDPRLayers: Certifiable Backpropagation Through Polynomial Optimization Problems in Robotics

C Holmes, F Dümbgen, TD Barfoot - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.19309, 2024 - arxiv.org
Differentiable optimization is a powerful new paradigm capable of reconciling model-based
and learning-based approaches in robotics. However, the majority of robotics optimization …

Learning covariances for estimation with constrained bilevel optimization

M Qadri, Z Manchester, M Kaess - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the problem of learning error covariance matrices for robotic state estimation.
The convergence of a state estimator to the correct belief over the robot state is dependent …