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 …

Benchmarking neural radiance fields for autonomous robots: An overview

Y Ming, X Yang, W Wang, Z Chen, J Feng… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for scene
representation, offering high-fidelity renderings and reconstructions from a set of sparse and …

Learning safe control for multi-robot systems: Methods, verification, and open challenges

K Garg, S Zhang, O So, C Dawson, C Fan - Annual Reviews in Control, 2024 - Elsevier
In this survey, we review the recent advances in control design methods for robotic multi-
agent systems (MAS), focusing on learning-based methods with safety considerations. We …

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 …

Splat-nav: Safe real-time robot navigation in gaussian splatting maps

T Chen, O Shorinwa, J Bruno, A Swann, J Yu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present Splat-Nav, a real-time robot navigation pipeline for Gaussian Splatting (GSplat)
scenes, a powerful new 3D scene representation. Splat-Nav consists of two components: 1) …

State-wise safe reinforcement learning with pixel observations

S Zhan, Y Wang, Q Wu, R Jiao… - 6th Annual Learning …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
In the context of safe exploration, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has long grappled with the
challenges of balancing the tradeoff between maximizing rewards and minimizing safety …

Formally Verifying Deep Reinforcement Learning Controllers with Lyapunov Barrier Certificates

U Mandal, G Amir, H Wu, I Daukantas… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a powerful machine learning paradigm for generating
agents that control autonomous systems. However, the" black box" nature of DRL agents …

Point cloud-based control barrier function regression for safe and efficient vision-based control

M De Sa, P Kotaru, K Sreenath - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Control barrier functions have become an increasingly popular framework for safe real-time
control. In this work, we present a computationally low-cost framework for synthesizing …

Catnips: Collision avoidance through neural implicit probabilistic scenes

T Chen, P Culbertson… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce a transformation of a neural radiance field (NeRF) to an equivalent Poisson
point process (PPP). This PPP transformation allows for rigorous quantification of uncertainty …

Integrating neural radiance fields end-to-end for cognitive visuomotor navigation

Q Liu, H **n, Z Liu, H Wang - IEEE Transactions on Pattern …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose an end-to-end visuomotor navigation framework that leverages Neural
Radiance Fields (NeRF) for spatial cognition. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first …