Safe learning in robotics: From learning-based control to safe reinforcement learning

L Brunke, M Greeff, AW Hall, Z Yuan… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The last half decade has seen a steep rise in the number of contributions on safe learning
methods for real-world robotic deployments from both the control and reinforcement learning …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Control barrier functions and input-to-state safety with application to automated vehicles

A Alan, AJ Taylor, CR He, AD Ames… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Balancing safety and performance is one of the predominant challenges in modern control
system design. Moreover, it is crucial to robustly ensure safety without inducing unnecessary …

Iterative reachability estimation for safe reinforcement learning

M Ganai, Z Gong, C Yu, S Herbert… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Ensuring safety is important for the practical deployment of reinforcement learning (RL).
Various challenges must be addressed, such as handling stochasticity in the environments …

How to train your neural control barrier function: Learning safety filters for complex input-constrained systems

O So, Z Serlin, M Mann, J Gonzales… - … on Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Control barrier functions (CBFs) have become popular as a safety filter to guarantee the
safety of nonlinear dynamical systems for arbitrary inputs. However, it is difficult to construct …

Joint synthesis of safety certificate and safe control policy using constrained reinforcement learning

H Ma, C Liu, SE Li, S Zheng… - Learning for Dynamics …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Safety is the major consideration in controlling complex dynamical systems using
reinforcement learning (RL), where the safety certificates can provide provable safety …

Safety-critical control with input delay in dynamic environment

TG Molnar, AK Kiss, AD Ames… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Endowing nonlinear systems with safe behavior is increasingly important in modern control.
This task is particularly challenging for real-life control systems that operate in dynamically …