Barriernet: Differentiable control barrier functions for learning of safe robot control

W **ao, TH Wang, R Hasani, M Chahine… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many safety-critical applications of neural networks, such as robotic control, require safety
guarantees. This article introduces a method for ensuring the safety of learned models for …

Learning control barrier functions from expert demonstrations

A Robey, H Hu, L Lindemann, H Zhang… - 2020 59th IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inspired by the success of imitation and inverse reinforcement learning in replicating expert
behavior through optimal control, we propose a learning based approach to safe controller …

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 …

Learning safe multi-agent control with decentralized neural barrier certificates

Z Qin, K Zhang, Y Chen, J Chen, C Fan - arxiv preprint arxiv:2101.05436, 2021 - arxiv.org
We study the multi-agent safe control problem where agents should avoid collisions to static
obstacles and collisions with each other while reaching their goals. Our core idea is to learn …

Advances in the Theory of Control Barrier Functions: Addressing practical challenges in safe control synthesis for autonomous and robotic systems

K Garg, J Usevitch, J Breeden, M Black… - Annual Reviews in …, 2024 - Elsevier
This tutorial paper presents recent work of the authors that extends the theory of Control
Barrier Functions (CBFs) to address practical challenges in the synthesis of safe controllers …

Promoting global stability in data-driven models of quadratic nonlinear dynamics

AA Kaptanoglu, JL Callaham, A Aravkin, CJ Hansen… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Modeling realistic fluid and plasma flows is computationally intensive, motivating the use of
reduced-order models for a variety of scientific and engineering tasks. However, it is …

Learning stability certificates from data

N Boffi, S Tu, N Matni, JJ Slotine… - Conference on Robot …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Many existing tools in nonlinear control theory for establishing stability or safety of a
dynamical system can be distilled to the construction of a certificate function which …

Empowering autonomous driving with large language models: A safety perspective

Y Wang, R Jiao, SS Zhan, C Lang, C Huang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Autonomous Driving (AD) encounters significant safety hurdles in long-tail unforeseen
driving scenarios, largely stemming from the non-interpretability and poor generalization of …

Joint synthesis of safety certificate and safe control policy using constrained reinforcement learning

H Ma, C Liu, SE Li, S Zheng… - Learning for Dynamics …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Safety is the major consideration in controlling complex dynamical systems using
reinforcement learning (RL), where the safety certificates can provide provable safety …

Learning hybrid control barrier functions from data

L Lindemann, H Hu, A Robey… - … on robot learning, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Motivated by the lack of systematic tools to obtain safe control laws for hybrid systems, we
propose an optimization-based framework for learning certifiably safe control laws from data …