Safe learning in robotics: From learning-based control to safe reinforcement learning

L Brunke, M Greeff, AW Hall, Z Yuan… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The last half decade has seen a steep rise in the number of contributions on safe learning
methods for real-world robotic deployments from both the control and reinforcement learning …

Adaptive tracking control with global performance for output-constrained MIMO nonlinear systems

L Kong, W He, Z Liu, X Yu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a novel adaptive tracking control technique is developed for multiple-input-
multiple-output nonlinear systems with model uncertainty and under output constraints …

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 …

Adaptive control barrier functions

W **ao, C Belta, CG Cassandras - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It has been shown that optimizing quadratic costs while stabilizing affine control systems to
desired (sets of) states subject to state and control constraints can be reduced to a sequence …

Toward model-free safety-critical control with humans in the loop

W **ao, A Li, CG Cassandras, C Belta - Annual Reviews in Control, 2024 - Elsevier
This vision article shows how to build on the framework of event-triggered Control Barrier
Functions (CBFs) to design model-free controllers for safety-critical multi-agent systems with …

Control barriers in bayesian learning of system dynamics

V Dhiman, MJ Khojasteh… - … on Automatic Control, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article focuses on learning a model of system dynamics online, while satisfying safety
constraints. Our objective is to avoid offline system identification or hand-specified models …

Safe multi-agent interaction through robust control barrier functions with learned uncertainties

R Cheng, MJ Khojasteh, AD Ames… - 2020 59th IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robots operating in real world settings must navigate and maintain safety while interacting
with many heterogeneous agents and obstacles. Multi-Agent Control Barrier Functions …

Control barrier functions for stochastic systems

A Clark - Automatica, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) aim to ensure safety by constraining the control
input at each time step so that the system state remains within a desired safe region. This …

Multi-robot collision avoidance under uncertainty with probabilistic safety barrier certificates

W Luo, W Sun, A Kapoor - Advances in Neural Information …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Safety in terms of collision avoidance for multi-robot systems is a difficult challenge under
uncertainty, non-determinism, and lack of complete information. This paper aims to propose …

[BUKU][B] Safe autonomy with control barrier functions: Theory and applications

W **ao, CG Cassandras, C Belta - 2023 - Springer
This book presents the concept of Control Barrier Function (CBF), which captures the
evolution of safety requirements during the execution of a system and can be used to …