How to train your neural control barrier function: Learning safety filters for complex input-constrained systems

O So, Z Serlin, M Mann, J Gonzales… - … on Robotics and …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Control barrier functions (CBFs) have become popular as a safety filter to guarantee the
safety of nonlinear dynamical systems for arbitrary inputs. However, it is difficult to construct …

Physics-informed machine learning for modeling and control of dynamical systems

TX Nghiem, J Drgoňa, C Jones, Z Nagy… - 2023 American …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) is a set of methods and tools that systematically
integrate machine learning (ML) algorithms with physical constraints and abstract …

Differentiable safe controller design through control barrier functions

S Yang, S Chen, VM Preciado… - IEEE Control Systems …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Learning-based controllers, such as neural network (NN) controllers, can show high
empirical performance but lack formal safety guarantees. To address this issue, control …

Data-driven control: Theory and applications

D Soudbakhsh, AM Annaswamy… - 2023 American …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ushering in of the big-data era, ably supported by exponential advances in computation,
has provided new impetus to data-driven control in several engineering sectors. The rapid …

Learning soft constrained MPC value functions: Efficient MPC design and implementation providing stability and safety guarantees

N Chatzikiriakos, KP Wabersich… - … Annual Learning for …, 2024‏ - proceedings.mlr.press
Abstract Model Predictive Control (MPC) can be applied to safety-critical control problems,
providing closed-loop safety and performance guarantees. Application of MPC requires …

Deep Learning for Continuous-Time Leader Synchronization in Graphical Games Using Sampling and Deep Neural Networks

D Zhang, J Anwar, SAA Rizvi… - ASME Letters in …, 2023‏ - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
We propose a novel deep learning-based approach for the problem of continuous-time
leader synchronization in graphical games on large networks. The problem setup is to …

Differentiable Predictive Control for Robotics: A Data-Driven Predictive Safety Filter Approach

J Viljoen, WS Cortez, J Drgona, S East… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Model Predictive Control (MPC) is effective at generating safe control strategies in
constrained scenarios, at the cost of computational complexity. This is especially the case in …

Robust Differentiable Predictive Control with Safety Guarantees: A Predictive Safety Filter Approach

WS Cortez, J Drgona, D Vrabie… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023‏ - arxiv.org
In this paper, we propose a novel predictive safety filter that is robust to bounded
perturbations and is combined with a learning-based control called differentiable predictive …

Real-Time Implementation of Differentiable Predictive Control on Embedded Microcontroller Hardware: A Case Study

J Boldocký, M Gulan, D Vrabie, J Drgoňa - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2024‏ - Elsevier
This paper presents the embedded implementation of differentiable predictive control (DPC)
in a real-time control application with fast dynamics. DPC is a model-based policy …

Safe Nonlinear Control Under Control Constraints via Reachability, Optimal Control and Reinforcement Learning

O So - 2024‏ - dspace.mit.edu
Autonomous robots in the real world have nonlinear dynamics with actuators that are subject
to constraints. The combination of the two poses complicates the task of designing …