Multi-UAV collaborative transportation of payloads with obstacle avoidance

A Hegde, D Ghose - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Control barrier functions have been widely studied and applied to safety-critical systems,
including multi-agent obstacle avoidance problems. In this work, we apply control barrier …

Gaussian control barrier functions: Non-parametric paradigm to safety

MA Khan, T Ibuki, A Chatterjee - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inspired by the success of control barrier functions (CBFs) in addressing safety, and the rise
of data-driven techniques for modeling functions, we propose a non-parametric approach for …

Autonomous spacecraft attitude reorientation using robust sampled-data control barrier functions

J Breeden, D Panagou - Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper presents a provably safe method for constrained reorientation of a spacecraft in
the presence of input constraints, bounded disturbances, and fixed frequency zero-order …

Optimization-based distributed safety control with applications to collision avoidance for mobile robotic networks

T Ibuki, T Hirano, R Funada, M Sampei - Advanced Robotics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents a distributed input rectification methodology to guarantee the safety of a
multi-agent system over its pre-given cooperative control task. We start with defining a multi …

Safe execution of learned orientation skills with conic control barrier functions

Z Shen, M Saveriano, FJ Abu-Dakka… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In the field of Learning from Demonstration (LfD), Dynamical Systems (DSs) have gained
significant attention due to their ability to generate real-time motions and reach predefined …

Local navigation-like functions for safe robot navigation in bounded domains with unknown convex obstacles

H Farivarnejad, AS Lafmejani, S Berman - Automatica, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a controller that stabilizes a holonomic robot with single-integrator
dynamics to a target position in a bounded domain, while preventing collisions with convex …

Decentralized formation control with prescribed distance constraints and shape uniqueness

Y Pan, B He, J Geng, Y Wang - 2023 American Control …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) formation problem, this paper presents a novel
decentralized control protocol that can guarantee the uniqueness of formation shape and …

Position Computation of Underwater Target Using Geodesic Curvature for Sub-Aquatic Internet of Underwater Things

T Srinivasa Reddy, R Arya, Prateek - Marine Geodesy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
To estimate the accurate position of the target, the geodesic curvature of the transmitter
sensor is proposed in the present work. The geodesic curvature of the transmitter sensor …

Pursuit-Evasion on a Sphere and When It Can Be Considered Flat

D Milutinovic, A Von Moll, SG Manyam… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In classical works on a planar differential pursuit-evasion game with a faster pursuer, the
intercept point resulting from the equilibrium strategies lies on the Apollonius circle. This …

Constrained Control and Online Safety Filtering for Autonomous Space Systems

J Breeden - 2024 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
This dissertation presents advances in the design of constrained control laws, specifically
control barrier function (CBF) quadratic program (QP) based control laws, herein called …