13 papers
Exact Signed-Distance Control Barrier Functions via Minkowski Operations for Safe Navigation among Polytopes
Yi-Hsuan Chen, Shuo Liu, Wei Xiao +2
Safely navigating polytopic environments while respecting the dynamics, control, and exact geometry of the underlying system is a challenge in robotics. Control barrier functions (…
Iterative Convex Optimization with Control Barrier Functions for Obstacle Avoidance among Polytopes
Shuo Liu, Zhe Huang, Calin A. Belta
Obstacle avoidance of polytopic obstacles by polytopic robots is a challenging problem in optimization-based control and trajectory planning. Many existing methods rely on smooth g…
Sampling-Aware Control Barrier Functions for Safety-Critical and Finite-Time Constrained Control
Shuo Liu, Wei Xiao, Calin A. Belta
In safety-critical control systems, ensuring both safety and feasibility under sampled-data implementations is crucial for practical deployment. Existing Control Barrier Function (…
Event-Triggered Adaptive Taylor-Lagrange Control for Safety-Critical Systems
Shuo Liu, Wei Xiao, Christos G. Cassandras +1
This paper studies safety-critical control for nonlinear systems under sampled-data implementations of the controller. The recently proposed Taylor--Lagrange Control (TLC) method p…
Koopman-Based Linear MPC for Safe Control using Control Barrier Functions
Shuo Liu, Liang Wu, Dawei Zhang +2
This paper proposes a Koopman-based linear model predictive control (LMPC) framework for safety-critical control of nonlinear discrete-time systems. Existing MPC formulations based…
Safety-Critical Control with Guaranteed Lipschitz Continuity via Filtered Control Barrier Functions
Shuo Liu, Wei Xiao, Calin A. Belta
In safety-critical control systems, ensuring both system safety and smooth control input is essential for practical deployment. Existing Control Barrier Function (CBF) frameworks,…