Safe control with learned certificates: A survey of neural lyapunov, barrier, and contraction methods for robotics and control

C Dawson, S Gao, C Fan - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Learning-enabled control systems have demonstrated impressive empirical performance on
challenging control problems in robotics, but this performance comes at the cost of reduced …

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 …

Neural graph control barrier functions guided distributed collision-avoidance multi-agent control

S Zhang, K Garg, C Fan - Conference on robot learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
We consider the problem of designing distributed collision-avoidance multi-agent control in
large-scale environments with potentially moving obstacles, where a large number of agents …

Safe control with learned certificates: A survey of neural lyapunov, barrier, and contraction methods

C Dawson, S Gao, C Fan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.11762, 2022 - arxiv.org
Learning-enabled control systems have demonstrated impressive empirical performance on
challenging control problems in robotics, but this performance comes at the cost of reduced …

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 safe reinforcement learning through neural barrier certificate

Y Yang, Y Jiang, Y Liu, J Chen… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safety is a critical concern when applying reinforcement learning (RL) to real-world control
tasks. However, existing safe RL works either only consider expected safety constraint …

In-distribution barrier functions: Self-supervised policy filters that avoid out-of-distribution states

F Castaneda, H Nishimura… - … for Dynamics and …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Learning-based control approaches have shown great promise in performing complex tasks
directly from high-dimensional perception data for real robotic systems. Nonetheless, the …

Gcbf+: A neural graph control barrier function framework for distributed safe multi-agent control

S Zhang, O So, K Garg, C Fan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.14554, 2024 - arxiv.org
Distributed, scalable, and safe control of large-scale multi-agent systems (MAS) is a
challenging problem. In this paper, we design a distributed framework for safe multi-agent …

Quadue-ccm: Interpretable distributional reinforcement learning using uncertain contraction metrics for precise quadrotor trajectory tracking

Y Wang, J O'Keeffe, Q Qian… - Conference on Robot …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Accuracy and stability are common requirements for Quadrotor trajectory tracking systems.
Designing an accurate and stable tracking controller remains challenging, particularly in …

Multi-step model predictive safety filters: Reducing chattering by increasing the prediction horizon

FP Bejarano, L Brunke… - 2023 62nd IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Learning-based controllers have demonstrated su-perior performance compared to classical
controllers in various tasks. However, providing safety guarantees is not trivial. Safety, the …