Synthesis for robots: Guarantees and feedback for robot behavior

H Kress-Gazit, M Lahijanian… - Annual Review of Control …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Robot control for tasks such as moving around obstacles or gras** objects has advanced
significantly in the last few decades. However, controlling robots to perform complex tasks is …

Certified defenses against adversarial examples

A Raghunathan, J Steinhardt, P Liang - arxiv preprint arxiv:1801.09344, 2018 - arxiv.org
While neural networks have achieved high accuracy on standard image classification
benchmarks, their accuracy drops to nearly zero in the presence of small adversarial …

Funnel libraries for real-time robust feedback motion planning

A Majumdar, R Tedrake - The International Journal of …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
We consider the problem of generating motion plans for a robot that are guaranteed to
succeed despite uncertainty in the environment, parametric model uncertainty, and …

Control design along trajectories with sums of squares programming

A Majumdar, AA Ahmadi… - 2013 IEEE International …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motivated by the need for formal guarantees on the stability and safety of controllers for
challenging robot control tasks, we present a control design procedure that explicitly seeks …

Control of multi-agent systems with finite time control barrier certificates and temporal logic

M Srinivasan, S Coogan… - 2018 IEEE Conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a method to synthesize controllers using finite time convergence control barrier
functions guided by linear temporal logic specifications for continuous time multi-agent …

Robust post-stall perching with a simple fixed-wing glider using LQR-Trees

J Moore, R Cory, R Tedrake - Bioinspiration & biomimetics, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Birds routinely execute post-stall maneuvers with a speed and precision far beyond the
capabilities of our best aircraft control systems. One remarkable example is a bird exploiting …

Finite-time regional verification of stochastic non-linear systems

J Steinhardt, R Tedrake - The International Journal of …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent trends pushing robots into unstructured environments with limited sensors have
motivated considerable work on planning under uncertainty and stochastic optimal control …

A nonlinear hybrid controller for swinging-up and stabilizing the rotary inverted pendulum

NP Nguyen, H Oh, Y Kim, J Moon - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2021 - Springer
In this paper, we propose a new class nonlinear hybrid controller (NHC) for swinging-up and
stabilizing the (under-actuated) rotary inverted pendulum system. First, the swing-up …

Robust online motion planning with regions of finite time invariance

A Majumdar, R Tedrake - … Foundations of Robotics X: Proceedings of the …, 2013 - Springer
In this paper we consider the problem of generating motion plans for a nonlinear dynamical
system that are guaranteed to succeed despite uncertainty in the environment, parametric …

Formally robust and safe trajectory planning and tracking for autonomous vehicles

Y Yu, D Shan, O Benderius, C Berger… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a safe trajectory planning and tracking algorithm for autonomous vehicles is
proposed. Specially, the safety problem considers the geometric constraints including the …