A review of safe reinforcement learning: Methods, theory and applications

S Gu, L Yang, Y Du, G Chen, F Walter, J Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved tremendous success in many complex decision-
making tasks. However, safety concerns are raised during deploying RL in real-world …

Safe deep reinforcement learning-based adaptive control for USV interception mission

B Du, B Lin, C Zhang, B Dong, W Zhang - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper aims to develop a safe learning scheme of the USV interception mission. A safe
Lyapunov boundary deep deterministic policy gradient (SLDDPG) algorithm is presented for …

Safe reinforcement learning with stability guarantee for motion planning of autonomous vehicles

L Zhang, R Zhang, T Wu, R Weng… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning with safety constraints is promising for autonomous vehicles, of
which various failures may result in disastrous losses. In general, a safe policy is trained by …

Constrained update projection approach to safe policy optimization

L Yang, J Ji, J Dai, L Zhang, B Zhou… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Safe reinforcement learning (RL) studies problems where an intelligent agent has to not only
maximize reward but also avoid exploring unsafe areas. In this study, we propose CUP, a …

Safe reinforcement learning for model-reference trajectory tracking of uncertain autonomous vehicles with model-based acceleration

Y Hu, J Fu, G Wen - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Applying reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms to control systems design remains a
challenging task due to the potential unsafe exploration and the low sample efficiency. In …

Barrier Lyapunov function-based safe reinforcement learning for autonomous vehicles with optimized backstepping

Y Zhang, X Liang, D Li, SS Ge, B Gao… - … on Neural Networks …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Guaranteed safety and performance under various circumstances remain technically critical
and practically challenging for the wide deployment of autonomous vehicles. Safety-critical …

Adaptive safe reinforcement learning with full-state constraints and constrained adaptation for autonomous vehicles

Y Zhang, X Liang, D Li, SS Ge, B Gao… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-performance learning-based control for the typical safety-critical autonomous vehicles
invariably requires that the full-state variables are constrained within the safety region even …

Online reinforcement learning with passivity-based stabilizing term for real time overhead crane control without knowledge of the system model

H Zhang, C Zhao, J Ding - Control Engineering Practice, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the existing uncertainties such as the payload mass and unmodeled dynamics in the
overhead crane system, classical model-based control methods yielding fixed control gain …

Secure adaptive event-triggered control for cyber–physical power systems under denial-of-service attacks

A Wang, M Fei, Y Song, C Peng, D Du… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Secure control for cyber–physical power systems (CPPSs) under cyber attacks is a
challenging issue. Existing event-triggered control schemes are generally difficult to mitigate …

An adaptive gain based approach for event-triggered state estimation with unknown parameters and sensor nonlinearities over wireless sensor networks

A Basit, M Tufail, M Rehan - ISA transactions, 2022 - Elsevier
The distributed state and parameter estimation problem is investigated in this paper for
discrete-time nonlinear systems subject to sensor nonlinearities and stochastic disturbances …