Composing Control Barrier Functions for Complex Safety Specifications
arXiv:2309.06647
Abstract
The increasing complexity of control systems necessitates control laws that guarantee safety w.r.t. complex combinations of constraints. In this letter, we propose a framework to describe compositional safety specifications with control barrier functions (CBFs). The specifications are formulated as Boolean compositions of state constraints, and we propose an algorithmic way to create a single continuously differentiable CBF that captures these constraints and enables safety-critical control. We describe the properties of the proposed CBF, and we demonstrate its efficacy by numerical simulations.
Accepted to the IEEE Control System Letters (L-CSS) and the 2024 American Control Conference (ACC). 6 pages, 3 figures