[AllUsers-ISR] Talk Luís Marques - May 27, 16:00 - ISR Amphitheater

[Rui Araujo]

Dear all,

This is a gentle reminder about the talk scheduled for next Wednesday.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Thank you.

Best regards,
Rui Araújo


On 21/05/2026 6.33 pm, Rui Araujo wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> We are pleased to announce a talk by Luís Marques on May 27 at 16:00, at the ISR 
> Amphitheater.
>
> Below you can find the title, abstract, and short bio of the speaker. We look 
> forward to seeing you there!
>
> ---
>
> *Title:* Uncertainty Calibration for Safety-Critical Robotics using Conformal 
> Prediction
>
> *Abstract:* Robot dynamics models, whether learned, simulated, or analytical, 
> can be inaccurate in unseen environments. This creates a challenge for safe 
> control: uncertainty estimates often become uncalibrated, which can lead to 
> overconfident plans and unsafe executions. In this talk, I will present 
> conformal prediction-based methods that calibrate approximate uncertainty 
> estimates from inaccurate dynamics models and construct prediction sets 
> guaranteed to contain future robot states at a user-specified rate. These 
> methods provide non-asymptotic, model-agnostic guarantees and adapt to the 
> robot’s state, action, and observations, making them informative for downstream 
> safe planning. I demonstrate the approach on a double integrator system with 
> random perturbations and significant model mismatch.
>
> *Short bio:* Luís Marques is a Ph.D. student in the Robotics Department at the 
> University of Michigan, advised by Dmitry Berenson. His work lies at the 
> intersection of uncertainty quantification, safe robotic decision-making, and 
> conformal prediction, with a focus on calibrating dynamics uncertainty under 
> both aleatory disturbances and model mismatch. Previously, Luís received a M.S. 
> in Robotics from the University of Michigan (2025) and a M.Eng. in Aeronautical 
> Engineering from Imperial College London (2023).
>
> ---
>
> Best regards,
> Rui Araújo
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> Rui Alexandre de Matos Araujo
> ISR-Institute for Systems and Robotics
> DEEC-Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
> University of Coimbra, Polo II
> PT-3030-290 Coimbra - Portugal
>    Email:rui at isr.uc.pt ; Tel: +351-239.796276/00
>    Web:https://home.deec.uc.pt/~rui/ ;http://ruiaraujo.rf.gd/
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