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From: reschivon Differentiable Particle Optimization fo
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Abstract
Video
Abstract
Unlike hierarchical approaches, SPaSM jointly optimizes object placements and robot trajectories to handle scenarios where motion feasibility constrains placement options. - Experimental evaluation on challenging benchmarks demonstrates solution times in the realm of milliseconds with a 100% success rate; a 4000x speedup compared to existing approaches. + Experimental evaluation on challenging benchmarks demonstrates solution times in the realm of milliseconds with a 100% success rate; a 4000x speedup compared to existing approaches.
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@article{chen2025spasm,
- author={Lucas Chen and Shrutheesh Raman Iyer and Zachary Kingston},
+ author={Lucas Chen and Shrutheesh R. Iyer and Zachary Kingston},
title={Differentiable Particle Optimization for Fast Sequential Manipulation},
year={2025},
eprint={2510.07674},
From 466159a085e36c7a07db890dcf524988cb6ee96d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: reschivon
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 06:33:08 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 4/7] Update lucas's website link
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_members/lucas.md | 10 +++++++---
papers/spasm/index.html | 2 +-
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diff --git a/_members/lucas.md b/_members/lucas.md
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github: "reschivon"
email: "chen4007@purdue.edu"
linkedin: "i-make-robots"
+wesbite: "xclucas.github.io"
google_scholar: "1nU-etIAAAAJ"
image: "lucas.jpg"
group: Master's Students
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group_rank: 3
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-I am a Master's student at the CoMMA lab in the [Computer Science Department](https://www.cs.purdue.edu/) of [Purdue University](https://www.purdue.edu/).
-Though it's too early to say for sure, my research interests include vision for robotics, physics informed networks, and motion planning, especially in wacky and unusual situations. In the past, I have worked with RL, language-controlled robots, and planning with PDEs.
-I am also interested in how we can make proof-of-concept methods from literature reliable and explainable enough to deploy to commercial robots.
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+I am a Masters student in the CoMMA lab in the [Computer Science Department](https://www.cs.purdue.edu/) of [Purdue University](https://www.purdue.edu/). I am currently working on learning-based motion planning and trajectory optimization for realtime (millisecond!) planning.
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+I'm still sorting out my research interests, which broadly involve designing robotic systems and algorithms that can make informed adaptations to unseen and ever-changing conditions in the real world. Sometimes, this involves distilling high level semantic information into executable trajectories and motions.
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+In the past, I have worked on projects spanning kinodynamic motion planning for wacky situations, distributed multiagent RL, open language querying, and human-robot interaction/intent modelling. I am also interested in how we can make proof-of-concept methods from literature reliable and explainable enough to deploy to commercial robots.
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Differentiable Particle Optimization for Fast Sequential Manipulation