Backup control barrier functions: Formulation and comparative study

Y Chen, M Jankovic, M Santillo… - 2021 60th IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The backup control barrier function (CBF) was recently proposed as a tractable formulation
that guarantees the feasibility of the CBF quadratic programming (QP) via an implicitly …

Sparse polynomial zonotopes: A novel set representation for reachability analysis

N Kochdumper, M Althoff - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce sparse polynomial zonotopes, a new set representation for formal verification
of hybrid systems. Sparse polynomial zonotopes can represent nonconvex sets and are …

Risk-aware motion planning for autonomous vehicles with safety specifications

T Nyberg, C Pek, L Dal Col, C Norén… - 2021 ieee intelligent …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ensuring the safety of autonomous vehicles (AV s) in uncertain traffic scenarios is a major
challenge. In this paper, we address the problem of computing the risk that AV s violate a …

Real-time control for autonomous racing based on viability theory

A Liniger, J Lygeros - IEEE Transactions on Control Systems …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider autonomous driving of miniature race cars. The viability kernel is
used to efficiently generate finite look-ahead trajectories that maximize progress while …

Soft-minimum and soft-maximum barrier functions for safety with actuation constraints

P Rabiee, JB Hoagg - Automatica, 2025 - Elsevier
This paper presents two new control approaches for guaranteed safety (remaining in a safe
set) subject to actuator constraints (the control is in a convex polytope). The control signals …

Safe reinforcement learning with dual robustness

Z Li, C Hu, Y Wang, Y Yang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) agents are vulnerable to adversarial disturbances, which can
deteriorate task performance or break down safety specifications. Existing methods either …

Online Control Barrier Function Construction for Safety-Critical Motion Control of Manipulators

X Ding, H Wang, Y Ren, Y Zheng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Designing safety-critical control for robotic manipulators is challenging, especially in a
cluttered environment. This article proposes an online control barrier function (CBF) …

The implicit maximal positively invariant set

SV Raković, S Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article introduces an alternative characterization, together with indirect computation and
implicit representation, of the maximal positively invariant set for the nonlinear dynamics and …

Safe exploration in reinforcement learning: training backup control barrier functions with zero training time safety violations

P Rabiee, A Safari - arxiv preprint arxiv:2312.07828, 2023 - arxiv.org
Safe reinforcement learning (RL) aims to satisfy safety constraints during training. However,
guaranteeing safety during training remained a challenging problem. This paper presents a …

Auxiliary functions as Koopman observables: Data-driven analysis of dynamical systems via polynomial optimization

JJ Bramburger, G Fantuzzi - Journal of Nonlinear Science, 2024 - Springer
We present a flexible data-driven method for dynamical system analysis that does not
require explicit model discovery. The method is rooted in well-established techniques for …