Risk-Bounded Control with Kalman Filtering and Stochastic Barrier Functions

Shakiba Yaghoubi, Georgios Fainekos, Tomoya Yamaguchi, Danil Prokhorov, Bardh Hoxha

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Abstract

In this paper, we study Stochastic Control Barrier Functions (SCBFs) to enable the design of probabilistic safe real-time controllers in presence of uncertainties and based on noisy measurements. Our goal is to design controllers that bound the probability of a system failure in finite-time to a given desired value. To that end, we first estimate the system states from the noisy measurements using an Extended Kalman filter, and compute confidence intervals on the filtering errors. Then, we account for filtering errors and derive sufficient conditions on the control input based on the estimated states to bound the probability that the real states of the system enter an unsafe region within a finite time interval. We show that these sufficient conditions are linear constraints on the control input, and, hence, they can be used in tractable optimization problems to achieve safety, in addition to other properties like reachability, and stability. Our approach is evaluated using a simulation of a lane-changing scenario on a highway with dense traffic.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages5213-5219
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781665436595
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2021 - Austin, United States
Duration: Dec 13 2021Dec 17 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
Volume2021-December
ISSN (Print)0743-1546
ISSN (Electronic)2576-2370

Conference

Conference60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2021
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAustin
Period12/13/2112/17/21

Keywords

  • Barrier Function
  • Kalman Filter
  • Robotics
  • Uncertainty

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Control and Optimization

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