The new agronomists: Language models are experts in crop management

J Wu, Z Lai, S Chen, R Tao, P Zhao… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Crop management plays a crucial role in determining crop yield economic profitability and
environmental sustainability. Despite the availability of management guidelines optimizing …

Gradient shaping for multi-constraint safe reinforcement learning

Y Yao, Z Liu, Z Cen, P Huang… - … Annual Learning for …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
Online safe reinforcement learning (RL) involves training a policy that maximizes task
efficiency while satisfying constraints via interacting with the environments. In this paper, our …

Convex synthesis of control barrier functions under input constraints

P Zhao, R Ghabcheloo, Y Cheng, H Abdi… - IEEE Control …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents a systematic method based on the sum of square (SOS) optimization to
synthesize control barrier functions (CBFs) for nonlinear polynomial systems subject to input …

Effect of coal moisture content on gas desorption and diffusion: A theoretical model and numerical solution

G Wang, Z Han, H Xu, S Peng, Q Huang, Q Long - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Moisture in coal plays a critical role in influencing gas desorption. This work numerically
establishes a mathematical model for the gas desorption in spherical coal particles with …

Learning Control Barrier Functions and their application in Reinforcement Learning: A Survey

M Guerrier, H Fouad, G Beltrame - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.16879, 2024 - arxiv.org
Reinforcement learning is a powerful technique for developing new robot behaviors.
However, typical lack of safety guarantees constitutes a hurdle for its practical application on …

Prescribed-Time Fuzzy Adaptive Control for Robotic Manipulators With Dead Zone Input

S Wang, H Shan, M Chadli, Y Zhu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To remove the influence of system initial values and controller parameters on the settling-
time function of finite/fixed-time control, a prescribed-time fuzzy adaptive control is designed …

Safe Control Against Uncertainty: A Comprehensive Review of Control Barrier Function Strategies

S Wang, S Wen - IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The growing interest in robust designs and data-driven technologies for safe control
problems underscores the critical need to understand uncertainty for ensuring reliable safety …

Safe Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving by Using Disturbance-Observer-Based Control Barrier Functions

Z Hou, W Liu, A Knoll - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, reinforcement learning (RL) has been increasingly used in autonomous driving
(AD) navigation control systems. However, most RL-based AD navigation control systems …

Autonomous Driving via Knowledge-Enhanced Safe Reinforcement Learning

C Wang, L Wang, Z Lu, S Zhou, C Wu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, the autonomous driving technology is at a critical phase evolving from typical,
closed scenarios to largescale, open driving scenarios, which is challenged by the diversity …

Generalizing Robust Control Barrier Functions from a Controller Design Perspective

A Alan, TG Molnar, AD Ames… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While control barrier functions provide a powerful tool to endow controllers with formal safety
guarantees, robust control barrier functions (RCBF) can be used to extend these guarantees …