Stabilization of nonlinear safety-critical systems by relaxed converse Lyapunov-barrier approach and its applications in robotic systems
2024 (English)In: Autonomous Intelligent Systems, E-ISSN 2730-616X, Vol. 4, no 1, article id 24Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Combining safety objectives with stability objectives is crucial for safety-critical systems. Existing studies generally unified these two objectives by constructing Lyapunov-type barrier functions. However, insufficient analysis of key set relationships within the system may render the proposed safety and stability conditions conservative, and these studies also did not provide how to use such conditions to design safety-stability control strategies. This paper proposed a feasible and constructive design to achieve stabilization of safety-critical systems by a relaxed converse Lyapunov-barrier approach. By analyzing the relationships between a series of sets associated with the safety-critical system, the stability and safety conditions can be appropriately relaxed. Then, with the help of relaxed converse control Lyapunov-barrier functions (RCCLBFs), a theoretical result was obtained for the stability of affine nonlinear systems with safety constraints. Subsequently, a constructive method was developed for a second-order strict-feedback system to transform the process of solving RCCLBFs into a Lyapunov-like stabilization problem. Finally, the proposed safety-stability control method is exerted on a robotic system and demonstrated by simulations.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer Nature , 2024. Vol. 4, no 1, article id 24
Keywords [en]
Barrier functions, Lyapunov functions, Safety, Stability
National Category
Mathematics Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-356969DOI: 10.1007/s43684-024-00081-xScopus ID: 2-s2.0-85209542227OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-356969DiVA, id: diva2:1916676
Note
QC 20241129
2024-11-282024-11-282024-11-29Bibliographically approved