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 …

A concise guide to modelling the physics of embodied intelligence in soft robotics

G Mengaldo, F Renda, SL Brunton, M Bächer… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Embodied intelligence (intelligence that requires and leverages a physical body) is a well-
known paradigm in soft robotics, but its mathematical description and consequent …

Neural-fly enables rapid learning for agile flight in strong winds

M O'Connell, G Shi, X Shi, K Azizzadenesheli… - Science Robotics, 2022 - science.org
Executing safe and precise flight maneuvers in dynamic high-speed winds is important for
the ongoing commoditization of uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, because the …

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 …

Learning for safety-critical control with control barrier functions

A Taylor, A Singletary, Y Yue… - Learning for Dynamics …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Modern nonlinear control theory seeks to endow systems with properties of stability and
safety, and have been deployed successfully in multiple domains. Despite this success …

Driven by data or derived through physics? a review of hybrid physics guided machine learning techniques with cyber-physical system (cps) focus

R Rai, CK Sahu - IEEe Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A multitude of cyber-physical system (CPS) applications, including design, control,
diagnosis, prognostics, and a host of other problems, are predicated on the assumption of …

Learning to fly—a gym environment with pybullet physics for reinforcement learning of multi-agent quadcopter control

J Panerati, H Zheng, SQ Zhou, J Xu… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic simulators are crucial for academic research and education as well as the
development of safety-critical applications. Reinforcement learning environments—simple …

Review of advanced guidance and control algorithms for space/aerospace vehicles

R Chai, A Tsourdos, A Savvaris, S Chai, Y Xia… - Progress in Aerospace …, 2021 - Elsevier
The design of advanced guidance and control (G&C) systems for space/aerospace vehicles
has received a large amount of attention worldwide during the last few decades and will …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating machine learning with human knowledge

C Deng, X Ji, C Rainey, J Zhang, W Lu - Iscience, 2020 - cell.com
Machine learning has been heavily researched and widely used in many disciplines.
However, achieving high accuracy requires a large amount of data that is sometimes …

When physics meets machine learning: A survey of physics-informed machine learning

C Meng, S Seo, D Cao, S Griesemer, Y Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Physics-informed machine learning (PIML), referring to the combination of prior knowledge
of physics, which is the high level abstraction of natural phenomenons and human …