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 …

Learning safe, generalizable perception-based hybrid control with certificates

C Dawson, B Lowenkamp, D Goff… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many robotic tasks require high-dimensional sensors such as cameras and Lidar to navigate
complex environments, but developing certifiably safe feedback controllers around these …

Safety certification for stochastic systems via neural barrier functions

FB Mathiesen, SC Calvert… - IEEE Control Systems …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Providing non-trivial certificates of safety for non-linear stochastic systems is an important
open problem. One promising solution to address this problem is the use of barrier functions …

Lyapunov-stable neural-network control

H Dai, B Landry, L Yang, M Pavone… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Deep learning has had a far reaching impact in robotics. Specifically, deep reinforcement
learning algorithms have been highly effective in synthesizing neural-network controllers for …

Physics-informed neural network Lyapunov functions: PDE characterization, learning, and verification

J Liu, Y Meng, M Fitzsimmons, R Zhou - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.09131, 2023 - arxiv.org
We provide a systematic investigation of using physics-informed neural networks to compute
Lyapunov functions. We encode Lyapunov conditions as a partial differential equation (PDE) …

Stability analysis and controller synthesis using single-hidden-layer relu neural networks

P Samanipour, HA Poonawala - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents algorithms to solve analysis and controller synthesis problems for
dynamical systems modeled as a recurrent single-hidden-layer rectified linear unit neural …

Learning robust output control barrier functions from safe expert demonstrations

L Lindemann, A Robey, L Jiang, S Das… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses learning safe output feedback control laws from partial observations of
expert demonstrations. We assume that a model of the system dynamics and a state …

Stability verification of neural network controllers using mixed-integer programming

R Schwan, CN Jones, D Kuhn - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we propose a framework for the stability verification of mixed-integer linear
programming (MILP) representable control policies. This framework compares a fixed …

TOOL LyZNet: A Lightweight Python Tool for Learning and Verifying Neural Lyapunov Functions and Regions of Attraction

J Liu, Y Meng, M Fitzsimmons, R Zhou - Proceedings of the 27th ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we describe a lightweight Python framework that provides integrated learning
and verification of neural Lyapunov functions for stability analysis. The proposed tool …