{"687582":{"#nid":"687582","#data":{"type":"event","title":" Sandia-Georgia Tech Seminar Series - Christian Llanes ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELearning-based techniques have become increasingly popular as a tool for improving autonomy of aerial robotics platforms. These methods typically lack safety guarantees using formal verification. We contribute to autonomy for aerial robotics by using learning-based techniques and a safe verification method for supervising unverified controllers. Specifically, we propose a navigation framework for urban air mobility and aerial robotics that uses real-time motion planning with continuous-time learning, adapting an actor-critic model predictive control approach for urban air mobility, and using reachability with control barrier functions for verifying these learning-based methods. Leveraging mixed monotonicity to quickly overapproximate reachable sets for aerial drone dynamics in real time. Additionally, we explore multi-agent reinforcement learning to teach drone swarms to cooperate in a multi-agent pursuit evasion problem. Finally, we contribute software tools for the aerial robotics community for simulating hardware code for the Crazyflie nano quadrotor.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoin us for a presentation by Georgia Tech PhD Candidate and Sandia student intern Christian Llanes who will be speaking on his research in Reinforcement Learning-based Control and Safety Verification for Aerial Robotics\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Join us for a presentation by Georgia Tech PhD Candidate and Sandia student intern Christian Llanes who will be speaking on his research in Reinforcement Learning-based Control and Safety Verification for Aerial Robotics "}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2026-01-22 14:33:26","changed_gmt":"2026-01-22 14:35:20","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2026-02-04T13:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2026-02-04T14:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2026-02-04T14:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2026-02-04 18:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2026-02-04 19:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2026-02-04 19:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Online","extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/l\/meetup-join\/19%3ameeting_MjZkNjM0MmEtZGFhNi00ZTM5LThmMjUtYWEwZmU2MWEyN2Mz%40thread.v2\/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%227ccb5a20-a303-498c-b0c1-29007381b574%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228915c310-6508-42a4-bf6b-93c78751e18e%22%7d","title":"Join on Teams"}],"groups":[{"id":"1182","name":"General"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003ERon Briggs\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rb74@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Erb74@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}