Probabilistic Safety Constraints for Learned High Relative Degree System Dynamics

Abstract

This paper focuses on learning a model of system dynamics online while satisfying safety constraints. Our motivation is to avoid offline system identification or hand-specified dynamics models and allow a system to safely and autonomously estimate and adapt its own model during online operation. Given streaming observations of the system state, we use Bayesian learning to obtain a distribution over the system dynamics. In turn, the distribution is used to optimize the system behavior and ensure safety with high probability, by specifying a chance constraint over a control barrier function.

Cite

Text

Khojasteh et al. "Probabilistic Safety Constraints for Learned High Relative Degree System Dynamics." Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control, 2020.

Markdown

[Khojasteh et al. "Probabilistic Safety Constraints for Learned High Relative Degree System Dynamics." Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control, 2020.](https://mlanthology.org/l4dc/2020/khojasteh2020l4dc-probabilistic/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{khojasteh2020l4dc-probabilistic,
  title     = {{Probabilistic Safety Constraints for Learned High Relative Degree System Dynamics}},
  author    = {Khojasteh, Mohammad Javad and Dhiman, Vikas and Franceschetti, Massimo and Atanasov, Nikolay},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control},
  year      = {2020},
  pages     = {781-792},
  volume    = {120},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/l4dc/2020/khojasteh2020l4dc-probabilistic/}
}