3 papers
cs.RO2025
From Space to Time: Enabling Adaptive Safety with Learned Value Functions via Disturbance Recasting
Sander Tonkens, Nikhil Uday Shinde, Azra Begzadić +3
The widespread deployment of autonomous systems in safety-critical environments such as urban air mobility hinges on ensuring reliable, performant, and safe operation under varying…
eess.SY2025
Back to Base: Towards Hands-Off Learning via Safe Resets with Reach-Avoid Safety Filters
Azra Begzadić, Nikhil Uday Shinde, Sander Tonkens +5
Designing controllers that accomplish tasks while guaranteeing safety constraints remains a significant challenge. We often want an agent to perform well in a nominal task, such as…
eess.SY2024
Safe Event-triggered Gaussian Process Learning for Barrier-Constrained Control
Armin Lederer, Azra Begzadić, Sandra Hirche +2
While control barrier functions (CBFs) are employed in addressing safety, control synthesis methods based on them generally rely on accurate system dynamics. This is a critical lim…