Abstract: This article introduces an innovative motion planning algorithm for autonomous mobile robots, specifically focusing on quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), utilizing a gradient descent ...

Abstract: The framework of integral quadratic constraints is used to perform an analysis of gradient descent with varying step sizes. Two performance metrics are considered: convergence rate and noise ...

This is a new engine for Descent 3, from the initial 1.5 source code release. It incorporates almost every change from InjectD3, among many more. At the moment, this includes the following features: ...

You heard it here first! The new Otis solver in Houdini 21 uses Vertex Block Descent! They made some nice improvements for stability, including several new hessian approximations. It also runs in ...