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Control barrier functions (CBFs) enable guaranteed safe multi-agent navigation in the continuous domain. The resulting navigation performance, however, is highly sensitive to the underlying hyperparameters. Traditional approaches consider…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Zhan Gao , Guang Yang , Amanda Prorok

We present SIREN for registration of multi-robot Gaussian Splatting (GSplat) maps, with zero access to camera poses, images, and inter-map transforms for initialization or fusion of local submaps. To realize these capabilities, SIREN…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Ola Shorinwa , Jiankai Sun , Mac Schwager , Anirudha Majumdar

We introduce AttentionSwarm, a novel benchmark designed to evaluate safe and efficient swarm control in a dynamic drone racing scenario. Central to our approach is the Attention Model-Based Control Barrier Function (CBF) framework, which…

In this paper, we present a novel probabilistic safe control framework for human-robot interaction that combines control barrier functions (CBFs) with conformal risk control to provide formal safety guarantees while considering complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jake Gonzales , Kazuki Mizuta , Karen Leung , Lillian J. Ratliff

This paper presents a novel safe control framework that integrates Sliding Mode Control (SMC), High-Order Control Barrier Functions (HOCBFs) with state-dependent adaptiveness and a lightweight projection for collision-free navigation of an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Spyridon Syntakas , Kostas Vlachos

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables high-fidelity real-time rendering, a key requirement for immersive applications. However, the extension of 3DGS to dynamic scenes remains limitations on the substantial data volume of dense Gaussians and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Jiayu Yang , Weijian Su , Songqian Zhang , Yuqi Han , Jinli Suo , Qiang Zhang

To achieve safe legged locomotion, it is important to generate motion in real-time considering various constraints in robots and environments. In this study, we propose a lightweight real-time perspective motion control system for the newly…

We propose a new frontier concept called the Gaussian Process Frontier (GP-Frontier) that can be used to locally navigate a robot towards a goal without building a map. The GP-Frontier is built on the uncertainty assessment of an efficient…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Mahmoud Ali , Lantao Liu

High-fidelity three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction is essential for robotics and simulation. While Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieve impressive rendering quality, their reliance on time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xiong Jinlin , Li Can , Shen Jiawei , Qi Zhigang , Sun Lei , Zhao Dongyang

We propose new methods to synthesize control barrier function (CBF)-based safe controllers that avoid input saturation, which can cause safety violations. In particular, our method is created for high-dimensional, general nonlinear systems,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Simin Liu , Changliu Liu , John Dolan

Learning-based control with safety guarantees usually requires real-time safety certification and modifications of possibly unsafe learning-based policies. The control barrier function (CBF) method uses a safety filter containing a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 Kanghui He , Shengling Shi , Ton van den Boom , Bart De Schutter

Safety is a central requirement for autonomous system operation across domains. Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis can be used to construct "least-restrictive" safety filters that result in infrequent, but often extreme, control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Athindran Ramesh Kumar , Kai-Chieh Hsu , Peter J. Ramadge , Jaime F. Fisac

Control barrier functions (CBF) are widely explored to enforce the safety-critical constraints on nonlinear systems recently. There are many researchers incorporating the control barrier functions into path planning algorithms to find a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Leonas Liu , Yingfan Zhang , Larry Zhang , Mehbi Kermanshabi

Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) have been demonstrated to be a powerful tool for safety-critical controller design for nonlinear systems. Existing design paradigms do not address the gap between theory (controller design with continuous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-15 Andrew J. Taylor , Victor D. Dorobantu , Ryan K. Cosner , Yisong Yue , Aaron D. Ames

While existing feed-forward Gaussian splatting models offer computational efficiency and can generalize to sparse view settings, their performance is fundamentally constrained by relying on a single forward pass for inference. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Haofei Xu , Daniel Barath , Andreas Geiger , Marc Pollefeys

This study introduces a shared-control approach for collision avoidance in a self-balancing riding ballbot, called PURE, marked by its dynamic stability, omnidirectional movement, and hands-free interface. Integrated with a sensor array and…

In safety-critical control systems, ensuring both system safety and smooth control input is essential for practical deployment. Existing Control Barrier Function (CBF) frameworks, especially High-Order CBFs (HOCBFs), effectively enforce…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Shuo Liu , Wei Xiao , Calin A. Belta

Platooning can serve as an effective management measure for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) to ensure overall traffic efficiency. Current study focus on the longitudinal control of CAV platoons, however it still remains a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Fengqing Hu , Huan Yu

This paper extends the gap-based navigation technique in Potential Gap by guaranteeing safety for nonholonomic robots for all tiers of the local planner hierarchy, so called Safer Gap. The first tier generates a Bezier-based collision-free…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Shiyu Feng , Ahmad Abuaish , Patricio A. Vela

Path planning and collision avoidance are challenging in complex and highly variable environments due to the limited horizon of events. In literature, there are multiple model- and learning-based approaches that require significant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Carlo Tiseo , Vladimir Ivan , Wolfgang Merkt , Ioannis Havoutis , Michael Mistry , Sethu Vijayakumar