Safe Stabilizing Control for Polygonal Robots in Dynamic Elliptical Environments

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Main Authors: Long, Kehan, Tran, Khoa, Leok, Melvin, Atanasov, Nikolay
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Published: 2023
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author Long, Kehan
Tran, Khoa
Leok, Melvin
Atanasov, Nikolay
author_facet Long, Kehan
Tran, Khoa
Leok, Melvin
Atanasov, Nikolay
contents This paper addresses the challenge of safe navigation for rigid-body mobile robots in dynamic environments. We introduce an analytic approach to compute the distance between a polygon and an ellipse, and employ it to construct a control barrier function (CBF) for safe control synthesis. Existing CBF design methods for mobile robot obstacle avoidance usually assume point or circular robots, preventing their applicability to more realistic robot body geometries. Our work enables CBF designs that capture complex robot and obstacle shapes. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in simulations highlighting real-time obstacle avoidance in constrained and dynamic environments for both mobile robots and multi-joint robot arms.
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spellingShingle Safe Stabilizing Control for Polygonal Robots in Dynamic Elliptical Environments
Long, Kehan
Tran, Khoa
Leok, Melvin
Atanasov, Nikolay
Robotics
Optimization and Control
This paper addresses the challenge of safe navigation for rigid-body mobile robots in dynamic environments. We introduce an analytic approach to compute the distance between a polygon and an ellipse, and employ it to construct a control barrier function (CBF) for safe control synthesis. Existing CBF design methods for mobile robot obstacle avoidance usually assume point or circular robots, preventing their applicability to more realistic robot body geometries. Our work enables CBF designs that capture complex robot and obstacle shapes. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in simulations highlighting real-time obstacle avoidance in constrained and dynamic environments for both mobile robots and multi-joint robot arms.
title Safe Stabilizing Control for Polygonal Robots in Dynamic Elliptical Environments
topic Robotics
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00273