Ashkan Jasour
Robotics Technologist @ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91101
jasour at jpl dot nasa dot gov
jasour at jpl dot caltech dot edu
jasour at mit dot edu
Research Interests: Probabilistic (Risk-Aware) Control, Planning, and Optimization for Robotic Systems
Links: MITCourse, Google Scholar, GitHub, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin
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Research Scientist
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) -
Postdoctoral Associate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) -
PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
PhD-Minor in Mathematics
The Pennsylvania State University
Toyota Research Institute (TRI)
News
Oct-2021 CDC 2021: paper on Real-Time Risk-Bounded Tube-Based Trajectory Safety Verification
July-2021 IROS 2021: paper on Risk Conditioned Neural Motion Planning
May-2021 I will serve as an Guest Editor for AIJ Special Issue on Risk-Aware Autonomous Systems: Theory and Practice.
May-2021 RSS 2021: paper on Risk Bounded Continuous-Time Trajectory Planning, https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05489
Feb-2021 Journal Submission: paper on Fast Nonlinear Risk Assessment for Autonomous Vehicles Using Learned Conditional Probabilistic Models of Agent Futures
Jan-2021 Journal Submission: paper on “Moment-Based Exact Uncertainty Propagation Through Nonlinear Stochastic Autonomous Systems".
Oct-2020 INFORMS 2020: *Talk1: Risk Aware Nonlinear Planning And Control *Talk2: Large-scale Semidefinite Programming For Certifiably Correct Machine Perception
Jul-2020 IROS 2020 and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) papers on Non-Gaussian Chance-Constrained Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Vehicles in the Presence of Uncertain Agents.
Jul-2020 IROS 2020: paper on Chance-Constrained Trajectory Planning for Manipulation
May-2020 RSS 2020: paper on intention-aware real-time nonlinear risk estimation
Apr-2020 Talk: My recent talk on chance constriend optimization @MIT-LIDS https://www.mit.edu/~parrilo/vsopt/, *Slides *Talk Video
Dec-2019 CDC 2019: I will present my recent work on control of probabilistic nonlinear autonomous systems at IEEE Conference on Decision and Control @ France. "Sequential Convex Chance Optimization for Flow-Tube based Control of Probabilistic Nonlinear Systems".
Jul-2019 Teaching: I will teach "MIT 16.S498: Risk Aware and Robust Nonlinear Planning" this Fall at MIT. For more information: http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/16/fa19/16.S498/ rarnop.mit.edu
Jul-2019 Talk: I will give a talk on "Risk Bounded Nonlinear Planning" at the 3rd Summer School on Cognitive Robotics @USC.https://sites.usc.edu/cognitive-robotics/schedule My talk at the 2nd Summer School @MIT: https://youtu.be/1alNrOMoQLA
Jun-2019 RSS 2019: I will be presenting my recent work on risk bounded planning at Robotics: Science and Systems-2019 on "Risk Contours Map for Risk Bounded Motion Planning under Perception Uncertainties".