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 …

Invariant set estimation for piecewise affine dynamical systems using piecewise affine barrier function

P Samanipour, H Poonawala - European Journal of Control, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper introduces an algorithm for estimating the invariant set of closed-loop controlled
dynamical systems identified using single-hidden layer Rectified linear units (ReLU) neural …

Synthesis and verification of robust-adaptive safe controllers

S Liu, KS Yun, JM Dolan, C Liu - 2024 European Control …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safe control with guarantees generally requires the system model to be known. It is far more
challenging to handle systems with uncertain parameters. In this paper, we propose a …

Safety-critical disturbance rejection control of nonlinear systems with unmatched disturbances

X Wang, J Yang, C Liu, Y Yan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safety-critical control is significant for autonomous system applications where safety is an
utmost concern. Control-barrier-function (CBF)-based control has shown its promising …

A constraint-driven approach to line flocking: The v formation as an energy-saving strategy

LE Beaver, C Kroninger, M Dorothy… - … on Control of …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we present a constraint-driven control algorithm that minimizes the energy
consumption of individual agents and yields an emergent V formation. As the formation …

Sensor-Based Distributionally Robust Control for Safe Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments

K Long, Y Yi, Z Dai, S Herbert, J Cortés… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We introduce a novel method for safe mobile robot navigation in dynamic, unknown
environments, utilizing onboard sensing to impose safety constraints without the need for …

Safe Distributed Control of Multi-Robot Systems with Communication Delays

L Ballotta, R Talak - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.09382, 2024 - arxiv.org
Safe operation of multi-robot systems is critical, especially in communication-degraded
environments such as underwater for seabed mapping, underground caves for navigation …

Safe Navigation in Dynamic Environments using Density Functions

SSK Narayanan, J Moyalan, U Vaidya - arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.12206, 2024 - arxiv.org
This work uses density functions for safe navigation in dynamic environments. The dynamic
environment consists of time-varying obstacles as well as time-varying target sets. We …

Observer-Based Environment Robust Control Barrier Functions for Safety-critical Control with Dynamic Obstacles

YS Quan, J Zhou, E Frisk, CC Chung - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.13288, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper proposes a safety-critical controller for dynamic and uncertain environments,
leveraging a robust environment control barrier function (ECBF) to enhance the robustness …

Safe Stabilizing Control for Polygonal Robots in Dynamic Elliptical Environments

K Long, K Tran, M Leok… - 2024 American Control …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the challenge of safe navigation for rigid-body mobile robots in
dynamic environments. We introduce an analytic approach to compute the distance between …