Robot navigation in risky, crowded environments: Understanding human preferences

A Suresh, A Taylor, LD Riek… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The effective deployment of robots in risky and crowded environments (RCE) requires the
specification of robot plans that are consistent with humans' behaviors. As is well known …

A Risk-Aware Control: Integrating Worst-Case CVaR with Control Barrier Function

M Kishida - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.14265, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper proposes a risk-aware control approach to enforce safety for discrete-time
nonlinear systems subject to stochastic uncertainties. We derive some useful results on the …

Risk‐aware self‐triggered linear quadratic control

M Kishida - IET Control Theory & Applications, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a self‐triggered control approach with the view of risks for discrete‐time
linear stochastic systems. More specifically, under the assumption that the first two moments …

Purr-rrt*: Behavioral path planning in uncertain, risky and rewarding environments

A Suresh, C Nieto, S Martínez - 2023 20th International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Effective robotic deployment in uncertain risky and rewarding environments demand diverse
reasoning and planning capabilities from robots. In this work, we propose a novel behavioral …

Research on a Three-Way Decision-Making Approach, Based on Non-Additive Measurement and Prospect Theory, and Its Application in Aviation Equipment Risk …

R Xia, S Tong, Q Wang, B Sun, Z Xu, Q Liu, J Yu… - Entropy, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Due to the information non-independence of attributes, combined with a complex and
changeable environment, the analysis of risks faces great difficulties. In view of this problem …

Risk-aware stability, ultimate boundedness, and positive invariance

M Kishida - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article introduces the notions of stability, ultimate boundedness, and positive invariance
for stochastic systems in view of risk. More specifically, those notions are defined in terms of …

Robotic Exploration using Generalized Behavioral Entropy

A Suresh, C Nieto-Granda, S Martinez - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.10161, 2024 - arxiv.org
This work presents and evaluates a novel strategy for robotic exploration that leverages
human models of uncertainty perception. To do this, we introduce a measure of uncertainty …

Reactive Robot Navigation Using Behavioral Risk Perception for Uncertain Dynamic Obstacles

A Suresh, C Nieto-Granda - 2024 21st International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Successful robotic deployment in challenging environments requires diverse reasoning and
reactive control techniques to deal with uncertainty and risk. In this work, we propose a novel …

Safe trajectory tracking using closed-form controllers based on control barrier functions

A Cristofaro, M Ferro… - 2022 IEEE 61st …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers the problem of guaranteeing avoidance of critical state space regions
during tracking of reference trajectories for systems with dynamics equivalent to r-th order …

Combining 3D Planning and Control Barrier Functions for Safe Motion of Quadrotor UAVs Among Obstacles

A Cristofaro, M Ferro, F Galasso… - … on Control, Decision …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes the combination of a fast motion planner, which generates potentially
unfeasible trajectories for the center of mass of an underactuated UAV, with a tracking …