Correct-by-construction adaptive cruise control: Two approaches

P Nilsson, O Hussien, A Balkan, Y Chen… - … on Control Systems …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motivated by the challenge of develo** control software provably meeting specifications
for real-world problems, this paper applies formal methods to adaptive cruise control (ACC) …

Adaptive cruise control with safety guarantees for autonomous vehicles

S Magdici, M Althoff - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the problem of following a vehicle with varying acceleration in a
comfortable and safe manner. Our architecture consists of a nominal controller (here: model …

Integrating intuitive driver models in autonomous planning for interactive maneuvers

K Driggs-Campbell, V Govindarajan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Given the current capabilities of autonomous vehicles, one can easily imagine autonomous
vehicles being released on the road in the near future. However, it can be assumed that this …

Neural network-based safe optimal robust control for affine nonlinear systems with unmatched disturbances

C Qin, J Wang, H Zhu, J Zhang, S Hu, D Zhang - Neurocomputing, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, for the safety–critical systems with unmatched disturbances, a safe optimal
robust control method based on neural network is proposed to ensure that the safety–critical …

Adaptive cruise control: Experimental validation of advanced controllers on scale-model cars

A Mehra, WL Ma, F Berg, P Tabuada… - 2015 American …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in automotive technology, such as, sensing and onboard computation,
have resulted in the development of adaptive cruise control (ACC) algorithms that improve …

Data-driven computation of minimal robust control invariant set

Y Chen, H Peng, J Grizzle… - 2018 IEEE Conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a data-driven framework to compute an approximation of a minimal robust
control invariant set (mRCI) for an uncertain dynamical system where the model of the …

Finite abstractions with robustness margins for temporal logic-based control synthesis

J Liu, N Ozay - Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper introduces a notion of finite abstractions that can be used to synthesize robust
controllers for dynamical systems from temporal logic specifications. These finite …

Safety-critical control synthesis for network systems with control barrier functions and assume-guarantee contracts

Y Chen, J Anderson, K Kalsi, AD Ames… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article aims at the safety-critical control synthesis of network systems such that the
satisfaction of the safety constraints can be guaranteed. To handle the large state dimension …

Synthesis of separable controlled invariant sets for modular local control design

P Nilsson, N Ozay - 2016 American Control Conference (ACC), 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many correct-by-construction control synthesis methods suffer from the curse of
dimensionality. Motivated by this challenge, we seek to reduce a correct-by-construction …

Interdependence quantification for compositional control synthesis with an application in vehicle safety systems

SW Smith, P Nilsson, N Ozay - 2016 IEEE 55th Conference on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Composing controllers designed individually for interacting subsystems, while preserving
the guarantees that each controller provides for each subsystem, is a challenging task …