Reachability-based trajectory safeguard (RTS): A safe and fast reinforcement learning safety layer for continuous control

YS Shao, C Chen, S Kousik… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms have achieved remarkable performance in
decision making and control tasks by reasoning about long-term, cumulative reward using …

Safe reinforcement learning using black-box reachability analysis

M Selim, A Alanwar, S Kousik, G Gao… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) is capable of sophisticated motion planning and control for
robots in uncertain environments. However, state-of-the-art deep RL approaches typically …

Recovery rl: Safe reinforcement learning with learned recovery zones

B Thananjeyan, A Balakrishna, S Nair… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safety remains a central obstacle preventing widespread use of RL in the real world:
learning new tasks in uncertain environments requires extensive exploration, but safety …

Safe reinforcement learning using robust control barrier functions

Y Emam, G Notomista, P Glotfelter… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been shown to be effective in many scenarios. However, it
typically requires the exploration of a sufficiently large number of state-action pairs, some of …

Reachability-based safe learning with Gaussian processes

AK Akametalu, JF Fisac, JH Gillula… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning for robotic applications faces the challenge of constraint satisfaction,
which currently impedes its application to safety critical systems. Recent approaches …

Evaluating model-free reinforcement learning toward safety-critical tasks

L Zhang, Q Zhang, L Shen, B Yuan, X Wang… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Safety comes first in many real-world applications involving autonomous agents. Despite a
large number of reinforcement learning (RL) methods focusing on safety-critical tasks, there …

Model-free safe reinforcement learning through neural barrier certificate

Y Yang, Y Jiang, Y Liu, J Chen… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safety is a critical concern when applying reinforcement learning (RL) to real-world control
tasks. However, existing safe RL works either only consider expected safety constraint …

End-to-end safe reinforcement learning through barrier functions for safety-critical continuous control tasks

R Cheng, G Orosz, RM Murray, JW Burdick - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2019 - aaai.org
Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms have found limited success beyond simulated
applications, and one main reason is the absence of safety guarantees during the learning …

Towards verifiable and safe model-free reinforcement learning

M Hasanbeig, D Kroening, A Abate - 2020 - ora.ox.ac.uk
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a widely employed machine learning architecture that has
been applied to a variety of decision-making problems, from resource management to robot …

Guard: A safe reinforcement learning benchmark

W Zhao, R Chen, Y Sun, R Liu, T Wei, C Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Due to the trial-and-error nature, it is typically challenging to apply RL algorithms to safety-
critical real-world applications, such as autonomous driving, human-robot interaction, robot …