Robust Dynamic Safety Margins are Robust Control Barrier Functions

Abstract

This paper establishes robustness properties for control barrier functions (CBFs) constructed using dynamic safety margins (DSMs). We show that DSMs can act as robust CBFs by leveraging input-to-state stability for Lyapunov-based constructions, and contractivity for trajectory-prediction-based approaches. Additionally, we derive closed-form DSM-based robust CBFs (RDSM-RCBFs) specifically for linear systems. Simulations highlight the improved robustness of the proposed RDSM-RCBFs compared to nominal DSM-CBF baselines.

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