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 …

Safety-critical control for autonomous systems: Control barrier functions via reduced-order models

MH Cohen, TG Molnar, AD Ames - Annual Reviews in Control, 2024 - Elsevier
Modern autonomous systems, such as flying, legged, and wheeled robots, are generally
characterized by high-dimensional nonlinear dynamics, which presents challenges for …

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 …

Model-free safety-critical control for robotic systems

TG Molnar, RK Cosner, AW Singletary… - IEEE robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents a framework for the safety-critical control of robotic systems, when safety
is defined on safe regions in the configuration space. To maintain safety, we synthesize a …

Refining control barrier functions through Hamilton-Jacobi reachability

S Tonkens, S Herbert - 2022 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safety filters based on Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) have emerged as a practical tool for
the safety-critical control of autonomous systems. These approaches encode safety through …

Increasing perceived safety in motion planning for human-drone interaction

S Van Waveren, R Rudling, I Leite, P Jensfelt… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Safety is crucial for autonomous drones to operate close to humans. Besides avoiding
unwanted or harmful contact, people should also perceive the drone as safe. Existing safe …

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 …

Robust control barrier functions using uncertainty estimation with application to mobile robots

E Daş, JW Burdick - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a safety-critical control design approach for nonlinear control affine
systems in the presence of matched and unmatched uncertainties. Our constructive …

Safe control synthesis using environmentally robust control barrier functions

V Hamdipoor, N Meskin, CG Cassandras - European Journal of Control, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we study a safe control design for dynamical systems in the presence of
uncertainty in a dynamical environment. The worst-case error approach is considered to …

Risks of Drone Use in Light of Literature Studies

AA Tubis, H Poturaj, K Dereń, A Żurek - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
This article aims to present the results of a bibliometric analysis of relevant literature and
discuss the main research streams related to the topic of risks in drone applications. The …