Safe control synthesis using environmentally robust control barrier functions

DOI10.1016/J.EJCON.2023.100840zbMATH Open1527.93053arXiv2304.11600OpenAlexW4380887703MaRDI QIDQ6092437FDOQ6092437

Vahid Hamdipoor, Christos G. Cassandras, Nader Meskin

Publication date: 23 November 2023

Published in: European Journal of Control (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we study a safe control design for dynamical systems in the presence of uncertainty in a dynamical environment. The worst-case error approach is considered to formulate robust Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) in an optimization-based control synthesis framework. It is first shown that environmentally robust CBF formulations result in second-order cone programs (SOCPs). Then, a novel scheme is presented to formulate robust CBFs which takes the nominally safe control as its desired control input in optimization-based control design and then tries to minimally modify it whenever the robust CBF constraint is violated. This proposed scheme leads to quadratic programs (QPs) which can be easily solved. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated on an adaptive cruise control example.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11600

zbMATH Keywords

control barrier functionsenvironmentally robust control barrier functionsrobust control barrier functionssafe control synthesis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic programming (90C20) Sensitivity (robustness) (93B35) Synthesis problems (93B50) Adaptive control/observation systems (93C40)

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