Safe high-performance autonomous off-road driving using covariance steering stochastic model predictive control

J Knaup, K Okamoto, P Tsiotras - IEEE Transactions on Control …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous racing is a high-performance, safety-critical task that inherently involves a high
degree of uncertainty (especially in off-road unstructured environments), as driving …

Active fault diagnosis for linear stochastic systems subject to chance constraints

Y Guo, Q Liu, Z Wang, Z Zhang, X He - Automatica, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, the problem of active fault diagnosis (AFD) is investigated for a class of linear
stochastic systems subject to chance constraints, where the input signals are specifically …

Optimal covariance steering for discrete-time linear stochastic systems

F Liu, G Rapakoulias, P Tsiotras - arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.00618, 2022 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we study the optimal control problem for steering the state covariance of a
discrete-time linear stochastic system over a finite time horizon. First, we establish the …

Stochastic trajectory optimization for 6-DOF spacecraft autonomous rendezvous and docking with nonlinear chance constraints

Y Zhang, M Cheng, B Nan, S Li - Acta Astronautica, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the problem of stochastic trajectory planning for 6-DOF spacecraft
close proximity in the presence of external disturbances and initial state uncertainties …

Optimal covariance steering for continuous-time linear stochastic systems with multiplicative noise

F Liu, P Tsiotras - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study the finite-horizon optimal covariance steering problem for a
continuous-time linear stochastic system subject to both additive and multiplicative noise …

Optimal covariance steering for continuous-time linear stochastic systems with martingale additive noise

F Liu, P Tsiotras - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we study the problem of how to optimally steer the state covariance of a
general continuous-time linear stochastic system over a finite time interval subject to additive …

Distributionally robust covariance steering with optimal risk allocation

V Renganathan, J Pilipovsky… - 2023 American Control …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article extends the optimal covariance steering (CS) problem for discrete time linear
stochastic systems modeled using moment-based ambiguity sets. To hedge against …

[PDF][PDF] Spacecraft maneuver design with non-gaussian chance constraints using gaussian mixtures

S Boone, J McMahon - 2022 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist …, 2022 - researchgate.net
Standard chance-constrained spacecraft maneuver design algorithms typically rely on the
assumption that the spacecraft state uncertainties obey Gaussian distributions. However …

Non-Gaussian Chance-Constrained Trajectory Control Using Gaussian Mixtures and Risk Allocation

S Boone, J McMahon - 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Standard chance-constrained trajectory control algorithms typically rely on the assumption
that the vehicle state uncertainties obey Gaussian distributions. While this is a valid …

Data-driven robust covariance control for uncertain linear systems

J Pilipovsky, P Tsiotras - 6th Annual Learning for Dynamics …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
The theory of covariance control and covariance steering (CS) deals with controlling the
dispersion of trajectories of a dynamical system, under the implicit assumption that accurate …