Andrey Zhitnikov

Postdoctoral fellow

Ph.D. TASP, Technion, 2024

M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Technion, 2018

B.Sc. Summa Cum Laude, Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, 2014

ANPL Publications:

  1. A. Zhitnikov and V. Indelman, “Simplified Continuous High Dimensional Belief Space Planning with Adaptive Probabilistic Belief-dependent Constraints,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2024.
    Zhitnikov24tro.pdf Zhitnikov24tro.slides DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2023.3341625
  2. A. Zhitnikov, O. Sztyglic, and V. Indelman, “No Compromise in Solution Quality: Speeding Up Belief-dependent Continuous POMDPs via Adaptive Multilevel Simplification,” International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2024.
    Zhitnikov24ijrr.pdf DOI: doi.org/10.1177/02783649241261398
  3. A. Zhitnikov, “Simplification for Efficient Decision Making Under Uncertainty with General Distributions,” PhD thesis, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 2024.
    Zhitnikov24thesis.pdf Zhitnikov24thesis.slides Zhitnikov24thesis.video
  4. A. Zhitnikov and V. Indelman, “Anytime Probabilistically Constrained Provably Convergent Online Belief Space Planning,” 2024.
    arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06711
  5. A. Zhitnikov and V. Indelman, “Simplified Risk-aware Decision Making with Belief-dependent Rewards in Partially Observable Domains,” in International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), journal track, Aug. 2023.
    Zhitnikov23ijcai.pdf Zhitnikov23ijcai.poster
  6. A. Zhitnikov and V. Indelman, “Simplified Risk Aware Decision Making with Belief Dependent Rewards in Partially Observable Domains,” Artificial Intelligence, Special Issue on “Risk-Aware Autonomous Systems: Theory and Practice", Aug. 2022.
    Zhitnikov22ai.pdf DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2022.103775
  7. A. Zhitnikov and V. Indelman, “Risk Aware Belief-dependent Constrained Simplified POMDP Planning,” Sep. 2022.
    arXiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.02679.pdf
  8. A. Zhitnikov and V. Indelman, “Probabilistic Loss and its Online Characterization for Simplified Decision Making Under Uncertainty,” 2021.
    arXiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.05789.pdf
  9. O. Sztyglic, A. Zhitnikov, and V. Indelman, “Simplified Belief-Dependent Reward MCTS Planning with Guaranteed Tree Consistency,” May 2021.
    arXiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.14239.pdf