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most citedSafe Control Algorithms Using Energy Functions: A Unified Framework, Benchmark, and New Directions

9 citations · 31 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.CV2025

Enhancing Certifiable Semantic Robustness via Robust Pruning of Deep Neural Networks

Hanjiang Hu, Bowei Li, Ziwei Wang +4

Deep neural networks have been widely adopted in many vision and robotics applications with visual inputs. It is essential to verify its robustness against semantic transformation…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

Bridging the Gap between Hardware Fuzzing and Industrial Verification

Ruiyang Ma, Tianhao Wei, Jiaxi Zhang +3

As hardware design complexity increases, hardware fuzzing emerges as a promising tool for automating the verification process. However, a significant gap still exists before it can…

eess.SY2025

Control Invariant Sets for Neural Network Dynamical Systems and Recursive Feasibility in Model Predictive Control

Xiao Li, Tianhao Wei, Changliu Liu +2

Neural networks are powerful tools for data-driven modeling of complex dynamical systems, enhancing predictive capability for control applications. However, their inherent nonlinea…

cs.RO2024

Verification of Neural Control Barrier Functions with Symbolic Derivative Bounds Propagation

Hanjiang Hu, Yujie Yang, Tianhao Wei +1

Control barrier functions (CBFs) are important in safety-critical systems and robot control applications. Neural networks have been used to parameterize and synthesize CBFs with bo…

cs.LG2024

Absolute State-wise Constrained Policy Optimization: High-Probability State-wise Constraints Satisfaction

Weiye Zhao, Feihan Li, Yifan Sun +4

Enforcing state-wise safety constraints is critical for the application of reinforcement learning (RL) in real-world problems, such as autonomous driving and robot manipulation. Ho…

cs.RO2024

WeHelp: A Shared Autonomy System for Wheelchair Users

Abulikemu Abuduweili, Alice Wu, Tianhao Wei +1

There is a large population of wheelchair users. Most of the wheelchair users need help with daily tasks. However, according to recent reports, their needs are not properly satisfi…

cs.CV2024

Certifying Robustness of Learning-Based Keypoint Detection and Pose Estimation Methods

Xusheng Luo, Tianhao Wei, Simin Liu +6

This work addresses the certification of the local robustness of vision-based two-stage 6D object pose estimation. The two-stage method for object pose estimation achieves superior…

eess.SY2024★ 4 cited

Scalable Synthesis of Formally Verified Neural Value Function for Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability Analysis

Yujie Yang, Hanjiang Hu, Tianhao Wei +2

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis provides a formal method for guaranteeing safety in constrained control problems. It synthesizes a value function to represent a long-ter…

cs.LG2024

ModelVerification.jl: a Comprehensive Toolbox for Formally Verifying Deep Neural Networks

Tianhao Wei, Hanjiang Hu, Luca Marzari +4

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are crucial in approximating nonlinear functions across diverse applications, ranging from image classification to control. Verifying specific input-outp…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Meta-Control: Automatic Model-based Control Synthesis for Heterogeneous Robot Skills

Tianhao Wei, Liqian Ma, Rui Chen +2

The requirements for real-world manipulation tasks are diverse and often conflicting; some tasks require precise motion while others require force compliance; some tasks require av…

cs.RO2023

Multimodal Safe Control for Human-Robot Interaction

Ravi Pandya, Tianhao Wei, Changliu Liu

Generating safe behaviors for autonomous systems is important as they continue to be deployed in the real world, especially around people. In this work, we focus on developing a no…

cs.LG2023

Absolute Policy Optimization

Weiye Zhao, Feihan Li, Yifan Sun +3

In recent years, trust region on-policy reinforcement learning has achieved impressive results in addressing complex control tasks and gaming scenarios. However, contemporary state…

cs.RO2023

Robust Safe Control with Multi-Modal Uncertainty

Tianhao Wei, Liqian Ma, Ravi Pandya +1

Safety in dynamic systems with prevalent uncertainties is crucial. Current robust safe controllers, designed primarily for uni-modal uncertainties, may be either overly conservativ…

cs.RO2023

Learn With Imagination: Safe Set Guided State-wise Constrained Policy Optimization

Yifan Sun, Feihan Li, Weiye Zhao +3

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) excels in various control tasks, yet the absence of safety guarantees hampers its real-world applicability. In particular, explorations during lear…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

State-wise Constrained Policy Optimization

Weiye Zhao, Rui Chen, Yifan Sun +2

Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms have shown tremendous success in simulation environments, but their application to real-world problems faces significant challenges, with saf…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

GUARD: A Safe Reinforcement Learning Benchmark

Weiye Zhao, Yifan Sun, Feihan Li +4

Due to the trial-and-error nature, it is typically challenging to apply RL algorithms to safety-critical real-world applications, such as autonomous driving, human-robot interactio…

cs.RO2023

Zero-shot Transferable and Persistently Feasible Safe Control for High Dimensional Systems by Consistent Abstraction

Tianhao Wei, Shucheng Kang, Ruixuan Liu +1

Safety is critical in robotic tasks. Energy function based methods have been introduced to address the problem. To ensure safety in the presence of control limits, we need to desig…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

State-wise Safe Reinforcement Learning: A Survey

Weiye Zhao, Tairan He, Rui Chen +2

Despite the tremendous success of Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms in simulation environments, applying RL to real-world applications still faces many challenges. A major con…

cs.RO2022★ 2 cited

Safety Index Synthesis via Sum-of-Squares Programming

Weiye Zhao, Tairan He, Tianhao Wei +2

Control systems often need to satisfy strict safety requirements. Safety index provides a handy way to evaluate the safety level of the system and derive the resulting safe control…

cs.RO2022★ 1 cited

Persistently Feasible Robust Safe Control by Safety Index Synthesis and Convex Semi-Infinite Programming

Tianhao Wei, Shucheng Kang, Weiye Zhao +1

Model mismatches prevail in real-world applications. Ensuring safety for systems with uncertain dynamic models is critical. However, existing robust safe controllers may not be rea…

cs.RO2022

A Composable Framework for Policy Design, Learning, and Transfer Toward Safe and Efficient Industrial Insertion

Rui Chen, Chenxi Wang, Tianhao Wei +1

Delicate industrial insertion tasks (e.g., PC board assembly) remain challenging for industrial robots. The challenges include low error tolerance, delicacy of the components, and…

eess.SY2021

Safe Control of Arbitrary Nonlinear Systems using Dynamic Extension

Yihang Yao, Tianhao Wei, Changliu Liu

Safe control for control-affine systems has been extensively studied. However, due to the complexity of system dynamics, it is challenging and time-consuming to apply these methods…

cs.RO2021★ 8 cited

Safe Control with Neural Network Dynamic Models

Tianhao Wei, Changliu Liu

Safety is critical in autonomous robotic systems. A safe control law ensures forward invariance of a safe set (a subset in the state space). It has been extensively studied regardi…

cs.LG2021

Online Verification of Deep Neural Networks under Domain Shift or Network Updates

Tianhao Wei, Changliu Liu

Although neural networks are widely used, it remains challenging to formally verify the safety and robustness of neural networks in real-world applications. Existing methods are de…