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Belief Control Barrier Functions for Risk-Aware Control
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Robotics, Perception and Learning, RPL.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6046-7460
Delft University of Technology (TUD), Department of Cognitive Robotics (CoR), Delft, The Netherlands, 2628CD.
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Centres, Centre for Autonomous Systems, CAS. KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Centres, ACCESS Linnaeus Centre. KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Robotics, Perception and Learning, RPL.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4173-2593
2023 (English)In: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, E-ISSN 2377-3766, Vol. 8, no 12, p. 8565-8572Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Ensuring safety in real-world robotic systems is often challenging due to unmodeled disturbances and noisy sensors. To account for such stochastic uncertainties, many robotic systems leverage probabilistic state estimators such as Kalman filters to obtain a robot's belief, i.e. a probability distribution over possible states. We propose belief control barrier functions (BCBFs) to enable risk-aware control, leveraging all information provided by state estimators. This allows robots to stay in predefined safety regions with desired confidence under these stochastic uncertainties. BCBFs are general and can be applied to a variety of robots that use extended Kalman filters as state estimator. We demonstrate BCBFs on a quadrotor that is exposed to external disturbances and varying sensing conditions. Our results show improved safety compared to traditional state-based approaches while allowing control frequencies of up to 1 kHz.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2023. Vol. 8, no 12, p. 8565-8572
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Robot Safety, Sensor-based Control
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Control Engineering Robotics and automation
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-340320DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2023.3330662ISI: 001109132700006Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85177055205OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-340320DiVA, id: diva2:1819165
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Available from: 2023-12-13 Created: 2023-12-13 Last updated: 2025-02-05Bibliographically approved

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