Title
Safety-Critical Control using Optimal-decay Control Barrier Function with Guaranteed Point-wise Feasibility
Abstract
Safety is one of the fundamental problems in robotics. Recently, a quadratic program based control barrier function (CBF) method has emerged as a way to enforce safety-critical constraints. Together with control Lyapunov function (CLF), it forms a safety-critical control strategy, named CLF-CBF-QP, which can mediate between achieving the control objective and ensuring safety, while being executable in real-time. However, once additional constraints such as input constraints are introduced, the CLF-CBF-QP may encounter infeasibility. In order to address the challenge arises due to the infeasibility, we propose an optimal-decay form for safety-critical control wherein the decay rate of the CBF is optimized point-wise in time so as to guarantee point-wise feasibility when the state lies inside the safe set. The proposed control design is numerically validated using an adaptive cruise control example.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.23919/ACC50511.2021.9482626
2021 AMERICAN CONTROL CONFERENCE (ACC)
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
0743-1619
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jun Zeng111.74
Bike Zhang210.71
Zhongyu Li385.85
Koushil Sreenath435833.41