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Risk-Aware Robot Control in Dynamic Environments Using Belief Control Barrier Functions
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Robotics, Perception and Learning, RPL. KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Centres, Digital futures.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3294-8002
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Robotics, Perception and Learning, RPL. KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Centres, Digital futures.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6046-7460
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Robotics, Perception and Learning, RPL. KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Centres, Digital futures.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4173-2593
2025 (English)In: 2025 IEEE 64th Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2025, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2025, p. 5973-5979Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Ensuring safety for autonomous robots operating in dynamic environments can be challenging due to factors such as unmodeled dynamics, noisy sensor measurements, and partial observability. To account for these limitations, it is common to maintain a belief distribution over the true state. This belief could be a non-parametric, sample-based representation to capture uncertainty more flexibly. In this paper, we propose a novel form of Belief Control Barrier Functions (BCBFs) specifically designed to ensure safety in dynamic environments under stochastic dynamics and a sample-based belief about the environment state. Our approach incorporates provable concentration bounds on tail risk measures into BCBFs, effectively addressing possible multimodal and skewed belief distributions represented by samples. Moreover, the proposed method demonstrates robustness against distributional shifts up to a predefined bound. We validate the effectiveness and real-time performance (approximately 1 kHz) of the proposed method through two simulated underwater robotic applications: object tracking and dynamic collision avoidance.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2025. p. 5973-5979
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Robotics and automation Computer Sciences Control Engineering
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-385616DOI: 10.1109/CDC57313.2025.11312006ISI: 001784652600226Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105031877630OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-385616DiVA, id: diva2:2087034
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64th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2025, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 9-12, 2025
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QC 20260717

Available from: 2026-07-17 Created: 2026-07-17 Last updated: 2026-07-17Bibliographically approved

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