Title
Invariant Sets For Integrators And Quadrotor Obstacle Avoidance
Abstract
Ensuring safety through set invariance has proven a useful method in a variety of applications in robotics and control. However, finding analytical expressions for maximal invariant sets, so as to maximize the operational freedom of the system without compromising safety, is notoriously difficult for high-dimensional systems with input constraints. Here we present a generic method for characterizing invariant sets of nth-order integrator systems, based on analyzing roots of univariate polynomials. Additionally, we obtain analytical expressions for the orders n <= 4. Using differential flatness we subsequently leverage the results for the n = 4 case to the problem of obstacle avoidance for quadrotor UAVs. The resulting controller has a light computational footprint that showcases the power of finding analytical expressions for control-invariant sets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.23919/ACC45564.2020.9147872
2020 AMERICAN CONTROL CONFERENCE (ACC)
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
0743-1619
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ludvig Doeser100.34
Petter Nilsson2618.80
Aaron D. Ames31202136.68
Richard M. Murray4123221223.70