A new simulation metric to determine safe environments and controllers for systems with unknown dynamics

S Ghosh, S Bansal, A Sangiovanni-Vincentelli… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
We consider the problem of extracting safe environments and controllers for reach-avoid
objectives for systems with known state and control spaces, but unknown dynamics. In a …

Providing Safety Assurances for Systems With Unknown Dynamics

H Wang, J Borquez, S Bansal - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As autonomous systems become more complex and integral in our society, the need to
accurately model and safely control these systems has increased significantly. In the past …

Formal safety verification of unknown continuous-time systems: a data-driven approach

A Lavaei, A Nejati, P Jagtap, M Zamani - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
This work studies formal verification of continuous-time continuous-space systems with
unknown dynamics against safety specifications. The proposed framework is based on a …

Formal verification of unknown discrete-and continuous-time systems: A data-driven approach

A Nejati, A Lavaei, P Jagtap… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article is concerned with a formal verification scheme for both discrete-and continuous-
time deterministic systems with unknown mathematical models. The main target is to verify …

Safety verification of stochastic systems: A repetitive scenario approach

A Salamati, M Zamani - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we develop a data-driven approach for the safety verification of stochastic
systems with unknown dynamics. First, we use a notion of barrier certificates in order to cast …

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 …

Maximal Ellipsoid Method for Guaranteed Reachability of Unknown Fully Actuated Systems

T Shafa, M Ornik - 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the face of an adverse event, autonomous systems may undergo abrupt changes in their
dynamics. In such an event, systems should be able to determine their continuing …

A barrier-based scenario approach to verifying safety-critical systems

P Akella, AD Ames - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We detail an approach to safety-critical verification using barrier functions. Our method
requires limited system data to verify a system's ability to keep positive a candidate barrier …

Data-driven safe controller synthesis for deterministic systems: A posteriori method with validation tests

Y Chen, C Shang, X Huang… - 2023 62nd IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we investigate the data-driven safe control synthesis problem for unknown
dynamic systems. We first formulate the safety synthesis problem as a robust convex …

Experimental Evaluation and Formal Analysis of High‐Level Tasks with Dynamic Obstacle Anticipation on a Full‐Sized Autonomous Vehicle

B Johnson, F Havlak, H Kress‐Gazit… - Journal of Field …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Certifying the behavior of autonomous systems is essential to the development and
deployment of systems in safety‐critical applications. This paper presents an approach to …