Michiel van de Panne
@mvandepanne.bsky.social
UBC Computer Science; physics-based models of human movement; deep reinforcement learning; animation; robotics
2nd worst forest fire season thus far in Canada: 70,000 km^2 burned: the area of New Brunswick or Ireland. Action on reducing emissions, please.
August 13, 2025 at 5:14 AM
2nd worst forest fire season thus far in Canada: 70,000 km^2 burned: the area of New Brunswick or Ireland. Action on reducing emissions, please.
Area burned by fire in Canada this summer are off to crazy fast start (black line below), second only to 2023 (blue line below), when about 5% of the entire forest area of Canada burned.
June 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Area burned by fire in Canada this summer are off to crazy fast start (black line below), second only to 2023 (blue line below), when about 5% of the entire forest area of Canada burned.
Control physics-based characters at interactive rates to climb over tables and more. No learning!
Key ideas: (a) partwise MPC: switch between full-body and factored body-part MPC as convenient; (b) strategy guidance via sparse contact keyframes. SCA 2024
www.cs.ubc.ca/~van/papers/...
Key ideas: (a) partwise MPC: switch between full-body and factored body-part MPC as convenient; (b) strategy guidance via sparse contact keyframes. SCA 2024
www.cs.ubc.ca/~van/papers/...
November 8, 2024 at 5:32 AM
Control physics-based characters at interactive rates to climb over tables and more. No learning!
Key ideas: (a) partwise MPC: switch between full-body and factored body-part MPC as convenient; (b) strategy guidance via sparse contact keyframes. SCA 2024
www.cs.ubc.ca/~van/papers/...
Key ideas: (a) partwise MPC: switch between full-body and factored body-part MPC as convenient; (b) strategy guidance via sparse contact keyframes. SCA 2024
www.cs.ubc.ca/~van/papers/...