Safe Navigation using Density Functions

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Autori principali: Zheng, Andrew, Narayanan, Sriram S. K. S., Vaidya, Umesh
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Pubblicazione: 2023
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author Zheng, Andrew
Narayanan, Sriram S. K. S.
Vaidya, Umesh
author_facet Zheng, Andrew
Narayanan, Sriram S. K. S.
Vaidya, Umesh
contents This paper presents a novel approach for safe control synthesis using the dual formulation of the navigation problem. The main contribution of this paper is in the analytical construction of density functions for almost everywhere navigation with safety constraints. In contrast to the existing approaches, where density functions are used for the analysis of navigation problems, we use density functions for the synthesis of safe controllers. We provide convergence proof using the proposed density functions for navigation with safety. Further, we use these density functions to design feedback controllers capable of navigating in cluttered environments and high-dimensional configuration spaces. The proposed analytical construction of density functions overcomes the problem associated with navigation functions, which are known to exist but challenging to construct, and potential functions, which suffer from local minima. Application of the developed framework is demonstrated on simple integrator dynamics and fully actuated robotic systems.
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spellingShingle Safe Navigation using Density Functions
Zheng, Andrew
Narayanan, Sriram S. K. S.
Vaidya, Umesh
Robotics
This paper presents a novel approach for safe control synthesis using the dual formulation of the navigation problem. The main contribution of this paper is in the analytical construction of density functions for almost everywhere navigation with safety constraints. In contrast to the existing approaches, where density functions are used for the analysis of navigation problems, we use density functions for the synthesis of safe controllers. We provide convergence proof using the proposed density functions for navigation with safety. Further, we use these density functions to design feedback controllers capable of navigating in cluttered environments and high-dimensional configuration spaces. The proposed analytical construction of density functions overcomes the problem associated with navigation functions, which are known to exist but challenging to construct, and potential functions, which suffer from local minima. Application of the developed framework is demonstrated on simple integrator dynamics and fully actuated robotic systems.
title Safe Navigation using Density Functions
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15830