Data-driven safety filters: Hamilton-jacobi reachability, control barrier functions, and predictive methods for uncertain systems

KP Wabersich, AJ Taylor, JJ Choi… - IEEE Control …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Today's control engineering problems exhibit an unprecedented complexity, with examples
including the reliable integration of renewable energy sources into power grids, safe …

A survey on learning-based model predictive control: Toward path tracking control of mobile platforms

K Zhang, J Wang, X **n, X Li, C Sun, J Huang… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The learning-based model predictive control (LB-MPC) is an effective and critical method to
solve the path tracking problem in mobile platforms under uncertain disturbances. It is well …

Onboard safety guarantees for racing drones: High-speed geofencing with control barrier functions

A Singletary, A Swann, Y Chen… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter details the theory and implementation behind practically ensuring safety of
remotely piloted racing drones. We demonstrate robust and practical safety guarantees on a …

Physics-informed machine learning for modeling and control of dynamical systems

TX Nghiem, J Drgoňa, C Jones, Z Nagy… - 2023 American …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) is a set of methods and tools that systematically
integrate machine learning (ML) algorithms with physical constraints and abstract …

Bayesian multi-task learning mpc for robotic mobile manipulation

E Arcari, MV Minniti, A Scampicchio… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile manipulation in robotics is challenging due to the need to solve many diverse tasks,
such as opening a door or picking-and-placing an object. Typically, a basic first-principles …

Chronos and CRS: Design of a miniature car-like robot and a software framework for single and multi-agent robotics and control

A Carron, S Bodmer, L Vogel… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
From both an educational and research point of view, experiments on hardware are a key
aspect of robotics and control. In the last decade, many open-source hardware and software …

On the Design of Nonlinear MPC and LPVMPC for Obstacle Avoidance in Autonomous Driving*

M Nezami, DS Karachalios… - … on Control, Decision …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, we are concerned with autonomous driving missions when a static obstacle
blocks a given reference trajectory. To provide a realistic control design, we employ a model …

Multi-step model predictive safety filters: Reducing chattering by increasing the prediction horizon

FP Bejarano, L Brunke… - 2023 62nd IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Learning-based controllers have demonstrated su-perior performance compared to classical
controllers in various tasks. However, providing safety guarantees is not trivial. Safety, the …

Conformal predictive safety filter for rl controllers in dynamic environments

KJ Strawn, N Ayanian… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The interest in using reinforcement learning (RL) controllers in safety-critical applications
such as robot navigation around pedestrians motivates the development of additional safety …

Active learning-based model predictive coverage control

R Rickenbach, J Köhler, A Scampicchio… - … on Automatic Control, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problem of coverage control, ie, of coordinating multiple agents to optimally cover an
area, arises in various applications. However, coverage applications face two major …