Set propagation techniques for reachability analysis

M Althoff, G Frehse, A Girard - Annual Review of Control …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Reachability analysis consists in computing the set of states that are reachable by a
dynamical system from all initial states and for all admissible inputs and parameters. It is a …

Omnidirectional mobile robots, mechanisms and navigation approaches

H Taheri, CX Zhao - Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2020 - Elsevier
A bstract The omnidirectional drive is a popular challenging trend in today's mobile robotics
where different areas such as swarm, humanoid, legged, train-based, underwater, air flying …

Safe reinforcement learning for autonomous lane changing using set-based prediction

H Krasowski, X Wang, M Althoff - 2020 IEEE 23rd international …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning approaches often lack safety guarantees, which are often a key
requirement in real-world tasks. This paper addresses the lack of safety guarantees by …

On infusing reachability-based safety assurance within planning frameworks for human–robot vehicle interactions

K Leung, E Schmerling, M Zhang… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Action anticipation, intent prediction, and proactive behavior are all desirable characteristics
for autonomous driving policies in interactive scenarios. Paramount, however, is ensuring …

Safety assurances for human-robot interaction via confidence-aware game-theoretic human models

R Tian, L Sun, A Bajcsy, M Tomizuka… - … on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An outstanding challenge with safety methods for human-robot interaction is reducing their
conservatism while maintaining robustness to variations in human behavior. In this work, we …

Collision hazard modeling and analysis in a multi-mobile robots system transportation task with STPA and SPN

C Bensaci, Y Zennir, D Pomorski, F Innal… - Reliability Engineering & …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the ability to use complex multi-mobile robotic systems in risky and
dynamic environments, such as industrial plants and laboratories, with the presence of the …

Effortless creation of safe robots from modules through self-programming and self-verification

M Althoff, A Giusti, SB Liu, A Pereira - Science Robotics, 2019 - science.org
Industrial robots cannot be reconfigured to optimally fulfill a given task and often have to be
caged to guarantee human safety. Consequently, production processes are meticulously …

Set-based prediction of pedestrians in urban environments considering formalized traffic rules

M Koschi, C Pek, M Beikirch… - 2018 21st international …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Set-based predictions can ensure the safety of planned motions, since they provide a
bounded region which includes all possible future states of nondeterministic models of other …

Towards provably not-at-fault control of autonomous robots in arbitrary dynamic environments

S Vaskov, S Kousik, H Larson, F Bu, J Ward… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
As autonomous robots increasingly become part of daily life, they will often encounter
dynamic environments while only having limited information about their surroundings …

An MPC framework for planning safe & trustworthy robot motions

M Eckhoff, RJ Kirschner, E Kern… - … on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Strategies for safe human-robot interaction (HRI), such as the well-established Safe Motion
Unit, provide a velocity scaling for biomechanically safe robot motion. In addition …