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 …

The safety filter: A unified view of safety-critical control in autonomous systems

KC Hsu, H Hu, JF Fisac - Annual Review of Control, Robotics …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Recent years have seen significant progress in the realm of robot autonomy, accompanied
by the expanding reach of robotic technologies. However, the emergence of new …

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 …

Toward general-purpose robots via foundation models: A survey and meta-analysis

Y Hu, Q **e, V Jain, J Francis, J Patrikar… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Building general-purpose robots that operate seamlessly in any environment, with any
object, and utilizing various skills to complete diverse tasks has been a long-standing goal in …

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 …

Autonomous drone racing: A survey

D Hanover, A Loquercio, L Bauersfeld… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the last decade, the use of autonomous drone systems for surveying, search and
rescue, or last-mile delivery has increased exponentially. With the rise of these applications …

Safety-critical model predictive control with discrete-time control barrier function

J Zeng, B Zhang, K Sreenath - 2021 American Control …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The optimal performance of robotic systems is usually achieved near the limit of state and
input bounds. Model predictive control (MPC) is a prevalent strategy to handle these …

Learning for safety-critical control with control barrier functions

A Taylor, A Singletary, Y Yue… - Learning for dynamics …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Modern nonlinear control theory seeks to endow systems with properties of stability and
safety, and have been deployed successfully in multiple domains. Despite this success …

Neural control of robot manipulators with trajectory tracking constraints and input saturation

C Yang, D Huang, W He… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a control scheme for the robot manipulator's trajectory tracking task
considering output error constraints and control input saturation. We provide an alternative …