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Reachability supervision · Intervening as learning confidence changes

Hamilton–Jacobi analysis and Bayesian updates supervise a learning controller. The supervisor intervenes at safety boundaries or when new observations reduce confidence; the authors report quadrotor learning experiments with an introduced external disturbance.

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Original title
A General Safety Framework for Learning-Based Control in Uncertain Robotic Systems
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Authors
Jaime F. Fisac, Anayo K. Akametalu, Melanie N. Zeilinger, Shahab Kaynama, Jeremy Gillula, Claire J. Tomlin
DOI
10.1109/tac.2018.2876389
Publication date
2019-07
Source language
en
Edition
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; 2019; DOI 10.1109/tac.2018.2876389
Access
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Publication status
Published

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Source overview

Hamilton–Jacobi analysis and Bayesian updates supervise a learning controller. The supervisor intervenes at safety boundaries or when new observations reduce confidence; the authors report quadrotor learning experiments with an introduced external disturbance.

Use and review

Checked author abstract and publication metadata. Guarantees depend on approximate dynamics and statistical/worst-case assumptions; limited flight experiments do not establish safety across all operating conditions.

Sources & editions

A General Safety Framework for Learning-Based Control in Uncertain Robotic Systems ↗

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; 2019; DOI 10.1109/tac.2018.2876389

IEEE TAC bibliography; matching accepted author manuscript abstract https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.01292v3. Journal date 2019-07 retained.