Multi-UAV safe collaborative transportation based on adaptive control barrier function

Z Wang, T Hu, L Long - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article focuses on the problem of adaptive safe stabilization for a class of nonlinear
control affine systems with parameter uncertainties. Two novel definitions of adaptive control …

High order robust adaptive control barrier functions and exponentially stabilizing adaptive control lyapunov functions

MH Cohen, C Belta - 2022 American Control Conference (ACC), 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the problem of utilizing data-driven adaptive control techniques to
guarantee stability and safety of uncertain nonlinear systems with high relative degree. We …

Temporal logic guided safe model-based reinforcement learning: A hybrid systems approach

MH Cohen, Z Serlin, K Leahy, C Belta - Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper studies the problem of synthesizing control policies for uncertain continuous-time
nonlinear systems from linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications using model-based …

Parameterized barrier functions to guarantee safety under uncertainty

A Alan, TG Molnar, AD Ames… - IEEE Control Systems …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deploying safety-critical controllers in practice necessitates the ability to modulate
uncertainties in control systems. In this context, robust control barrier functions—in a variety …

Unmatched control barrier functions: Certainty equivalence adaptive safety

BT Lopez, JJE Slotine - 2023 American Control Conference …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work applies universal adaptive control to control barrier functions to achieve safe
control of dynamical systems with parametric model uncertainties. The proposed approach …

On the feasibility and continuity of feedback controllers defined by multiple control barrier functions

A Isaly, M Ghanbarpour, RG Sanfelice… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Control barrier functions are a popular method for encoding safety specifications for
dynamical systems. In this paper, a notion of control barrier function is defined that permits …

Adaptive safety-critical control for a class of nonlinear systems with parametric uncertainties: A control barrier function approach

Y Wang, X Xu - Systems & Control Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel approach for the safe control design of systems with parametric
uncertainties in both drift terms and control-input matrices. The method combines control …

Concurrent Learning Control Lyapunov and Barrier Functions for Uncertain Nonlinear Safety-Critical Systems With High Relative Degree Constraints

L Wang, J Dong - IEEE Transactions on Automation Science …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the problem of safety-critical tracking control for uncertain nonlinear
systems which are allowed to be with high relative degree constraints, parametric …

Sufficient conditions for uniform asymptotic stability and input-to-state stability using high-order control barrier functions

M Marley, R Skjetne, AR Teel - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Control barrier functions (CBFs) ensure the safety of controlled dynamical systems by
enforcing forward invariance of safe subsets of the state space. First-order CBFs are …

Maneuvering with safety guarantees using control barrier functions

M Marley, R Skjetne, E Basso, AR Teel - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2021 - Elsevier
Control barrier functions (CBFs) ensure safety of controlled dynamical systems, by restricting
the control inputs to render desired sets forward invariant. In this paper we propose a …