A review of safe reinforcement learning: Methods, theory and applications

S Gu, L Yang, Y Du, G Chen, F Walter, J Wang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved tremendous success in many complex decision-
making tasks. However, safety concerns are raised during deploying RL in real-world …

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 …

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 …

Barriernet: Differentiable control barrier functions for learning of safe robot control

W **ao, TH Wang, R Hasani, M Chahine… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many safety-critical applications of neural networks, such as robotic control, require safety
guarantees. This article introduces a method for ensuring the safety of learned models for …

Safe nonlinear control using robust neural lyapunov-barrier functions

C Dawson, Z Qin, S Gao, C Fan - Conference on Robot …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Safety and stability are common requirements for robotic control systems; however,
designing safe, stable controllers remains difficult for nonlinear and uncertain models. We …

Multi-layered safety for legged robots via control barrier functions and model predictive control

R Grandia, AJ Taylor, AD Ames… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problem of dynamic locomotion over rough terrain requires both accurate foot
placement together with an emphasis on dynamic stability. Existing approaches to this …

Learning safe multi-agent control with decentralized neural barrier certificates

Z Qin, K Zhang, Y Chen, J Chen, C Fan - arxiv preprint arxiv:2101.05436, 2021 - arxiv.org
We study the multi-agent safe control problem where agents should avoid collisions to static
obstacles and collisions with each other while reaching their goals. Our core idea is to learn …

A review of safe reinforcement learning: Methods, theories and applications

S Gu, L Yang, Y Du, G Chen, F Walter… - … on Pattern Analysis …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved tremendous success in many complex decision-
making tasks. However, safety concerns are raised during deploying RL in real-world …

Enforcing hard constraints with soft barriers: Safe reinforcement learning in unknown stochastic environments

Y Wang, SS Zhan, R Jiao, Z Wang… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
It is quite challenging to ensure the safety of reinforcement learning (RL) agents in an
unknown and stochastic environment under hard constraints that require the system state …

Safe control with learned certificates: A survey of neural lyapunov, barrier, and contraction methods

C Dawson, S Gao, C Fan - arxiv preprint arxiv:2202.11762, 2022 - arxiv.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 …