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eess.SY2023

Parameterized Barrier Functions to Guarantee Safety under Uncertainty

Anil Alan, Tamas G. Molnar, Aaron D. Ames +1

Deploying safety-critical controllers in practice necessitates the ability to modulate uncertainties in control systems. In this context, robust control barrier functions -- in a v…

eess.SY2022★ 76 cited

Disturbance Observers for Robust Safety-critical Control with Control Barrier Functions

Anil Alan, Tamas G. Molnar, Ersin Das +2

This work provides formal safety guarantees for control systems with disturbance. A disturbance observer-based robust safety-critical controller is proposed, that estimates the eff…

eess.SY2022★ 1 cited

Control Barrier Functions and Input-to-State Safety with Application to Automated Vehicles

Anil Alan, Andrew J. Taylor, Chaozhe R. He +2

Balancing safety and performance is one of the predominant challenges in modern control system design. Moreover, it is crucial to robustly ensure safety without inducing unnecessar…

eess.SY2022

Input-to-State Safety with Input Delay in Longitudinal Vehicle Control

Tamas G. Molnar, Anil Alan, Adam K. Kiss +2

Safe longitudinal control is discussed for a connected automated truck traveling behind a preceding connected vehicle. A controller is proposed based on control barrier function th…

eess.SY2021

Safe Controller Synthesis with Tunable Input-to-State Safe Control Barrier Functions

Anil Alan, Andrew J. Taylor, Chaozhe R. He +2

To bring complex systems into real world environments in a safe manner, they will have to be robust to uncertainties - both in the environment and the system. This paper investigat…

eess.SY2017

Adaptive Pressure Control for Use in Variable-Thrust Rocket Development

Anil Alan, Yildiray Yildiz, Umit Poyraz

The precise control of gas generator pressure is important to obtain variable thrust in ducted rockets. A delay resistant closed loop reference model adaptive control is proposed i…