The 10th seminar in our CSIE Student Seminar Series featured an insightful presentation on Risk-Aware Model Predictive Control (MPC) by CSIE research intern Anna Beklaryan. The seminar covered fundamental concepts and innovative approaches to enhancing autonomous system's safety in uncertain environments.

Key Highlights:

✔️Comparison between Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) risk measures

✔️Demonstration of CVaR's advantages for assessing worst-case scenario risks

✔️Application to autonomous navigation with moving obstacles

✔️Mathematical framework for balancing control objectives with risk-aware collision avoidance

The seminar showcased how incorporating risk awareness into MPC can significantly improve autonomous system safety and decision-making.