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Research paper

Between-sample safety · Reachability control for ground robots

Offline reachability determines piecewise-constant inputs that preserve safety throughout each sampling interval. Online table lookup supports obstacle avoidance, demonstrated with Pioneer ground robots.

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Original title
A practical reachability-based collision avoidance algorithm for sampled-data systems: Application to ground robots
Publisher
IEEE
Authors
Charles Dabadie, Shahab Kaynama, Claire J. Tomlin
DOI
10.1109/iros.2014.6943149
Publication date
2014-09
Source language
en
Edition
2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems; 2014-09; DOI 10.1109/iros.2014.6943149
Access
Publisher metadata and open author manuscript
Publication status
Published

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Source overview

Offline reachability determines piecewise-constant inputs that preserve safety throughout each sampling interval. Online table lookup supports obstacle avoidance, demonstrated with Pioneer ground robots.

Use and review

Primary abstract and bibliography checked. State measurement, sampling, actuation and obstacle bounds require system-specific confirmation.

Sources & editions

A practical reachability-based collision avoidance algorithm for sampled-data systems: Application to ground robots ↗

IEEE · 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems; 2014-09; DOI 10.1109/iros.2014.6943149

IROS2014 IEEE abstract https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6943149 and author paper https://people.ece.ubc.ca/~kaynama/papers/iros2014.pdf.