The safety filter: A unified view of safety-critical control in autonomous systems

KC Hsu, H Hu, JF Fisac - Annual Review of Control, Robotics …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Recent years have seen significant progress in the realm of robot autonomy, accompanied
by the expanding reach of robotic technologies. However, the emergence of new …

Safe control with learned certificates: A survey of neural lyapunov, barrier, and contraction methods for robotics and control

C Dawson, S Gao, C Fan - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Learning-enabled control systems have demonstrated impressive empirical performance on
challenging control problems in robotics, but this performance comes at the cost of reduced …

Safety-critical control for autonomous systems: Control barrier functions via reduced-order models

MH Cohen, TG Molnar, AD Ames - Annual Reviews in Control, 2024 - Elsevier
Modern autonomous systems, such as flying, legged, and wheeled robots, are generally
characterized by high-dimensional nonlinear dynamics, which presents challenges for …

Safe control with learned certificates: A survey of neural lyapunov, barrier, and contraction methods

C Dawson, S Gao, C Fan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.11762, 2022 - arxiv.org
Learning-enabled control systems have demonstrated impressive empirical performance on
challenging control problems in robotics, but this performance comes at the cost of reduced …

Enforcing hard constraints with soft barriers: Safe reinforcement learning in unknown stochastic environments

Y Wang, SS Zhan, R Jiao, Z Wang… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
It is quite challenging to ensure the safety of reinforcement learning (RL) agents in an
unknown and stochastic environment under hard constraints that require the system state …

Reachability constrained reinforcement learning

D Yu, H Ma, S Li, J Chen - International Conference on …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Constrained reinforcement learning (CRL) has gained significant interest recently, since
safety constraints satisfaction is critical for real-world problems. However, existing CRL …

Neural graph control barrier functions guided distributed collision-avoidance multi-agent control

S Zhang, K Garg, C Fan - Conference on Robot Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
We consider the problem of designing distributed collision-avoidance multi-agent control in
large-scale environments with potentially moving obstacles, where a large number of agents …

Neural lyapunov control of unknown nonlinear systems with stability guarantees

R Zhou, T Quartz, H De Sterck… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Learning for control of dynamical systems with formal guarantees remains a challenging
task. This paper proposes a learning framework to simultaneously stabilize an unknown …

Data-driven safety filters: Hamilton-jacobi reachability, control barrier functions, and predictive methods for uncertain systems

KP Wabersich, AJ Taylor, JJ Choi… - IEEE Control …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Today's control engineering problems exhibit an unprecedented complexity, with examples
including the reliable integration of renewable energy sources into power grids, safe …

Safe control under input limits with neural control barrier functions

S Liu, C Liu, J Dolan - Conference on Robot Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
We propose new methods to synthesize control barrier function (CBF) based safe controllers
that avoid input saturation, which can cause safety violations. In particular, our method is …