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Reactive UAV control · Searching for closed-loop barrier certificates

Sums-of-squares computation searches for safety certificates for an aircraft output-feedback controller. Rational approximations of nonsmooth dynamics and multiple barriers represent the modeled obstacles.

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Original title
Safety verification of reactive controllers for UAV flight in cluttered environments using barrier certificates
Publisher
IEEE
Authors
Andrew J. Barry, Anirudha Majumdar, Russ Tedrake
DOI
10.1109/icra.2012.6225351
Publication date
2012-05
Source language
en
Edition
2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation; 2012-05; DOI 10.1109/icra.2012.6225351
Access
Publisher metadata and open author manuscript
Publication status
Published

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Source overview

Sums-of-squares computation searches for safety certificates for an aircraft output-feedback controller. Rational approximations of nonsmooth dynamics and multiple barriers represent the modeled obstacles.

Use and review

Institutional abstract and bibliography checked. Certificates apply to the approximated model and environment, not arbitrary unknown scenes or hardware.

Sources & editions

Safety verification of reactive controllers for UAV flight in cluttered environments using barrier certificates ↗

IEEE · 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation; 2012-05; DOI 10.1109/icra.2012.6225351

ICRA2012 abstract https://collaborate.princeton.edu/en/publications/safety-verification-of-reactive-controllers-for-uav-flight-in-clu/ and author paper https://groups.csail.mit.edu/robotics-center/public_papers/Barry12.pdf.