Myopically Verifiable Probabilistic Certificates for Safe Control and Learning

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Autori principali: Wang, Zhuoyuan, Jing, Haoming, Kurniawan, Christian, Chern, Albert, Nakahira, Yorie
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author Wang, Zhuoyuan
Jing, Haoming
Kurniawan, Christian
Chern, Albert
Nakahira, Yorie
author_facet Wang, Zhuoyuan
Jing, Haoming
Kurniawan, Christian
Chern, Albert
Nakahira, Yorie
contents This paper addresses the design of safety certificates for stochastic systems, with a focus on ensuring long-term safety through fast real-time control. In stochastic environments, set invariance-based methods that restrict the probability of risk events in infinitesimal time intervals may exhibit significant long-term risks due to cumulative uncertainties/risks. On the other hand, reachability-based approaches that account for the long-term future may require prohibitive computation in real-time decision making. To overcome this challenge involving stringent long-term safety vs. computation tradeoffs, we first introduce a novel technique termed 'probabilistic invariance'. This technique characterizes the invariance conditions of the probability of interest. When the target probability is defined using long-term trajectories, this technique can be used to design myopic conditions/controllers with assured long-term safe probability. Then, we integrate this technique into safe control and learning. The proposed control methods efficiently assure long-term safety using neural networks or model predictive controllers with short outlook horizons. The proposed learning methods can be used to guarantee long-term safety during and after training. Finally, we demonstrate the performance of the proposed techniques in numerical simulations.
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spellingShingle Myopically Verifiable Probabilistic Certificates for Safe Control and Learning
Wang, Zhuoyuan
Jing, Haoming
Kurniawan, Christian
Chern, Albert
Nakahira, Yorie
Systems and Control
Machine Learning
This paper addresses the design of safety certificates for stochastic systems, with a focus on ensuring long-term safety through fast real-time control. In stochastic environments, set invariance-based methods that restrict the probability of risk events in infinitesimal time intervals may exhibit significant long-term risks due to cumulative uncertainties/risks. On the other hand, reachability-based approaches that account for the long-term future may require prohibitive computation in real-time decision making. To overcome this challenge involving stringent long-term safety vs. computation tradeoffs, we first introduce a novel technique termed 'probabilistic invariance'. This technique characterizes the invariance conditions of the probability of interest. When the target probability is defined using long-term trajectories, this technique can be used to design myopic conditions/controllers with assured long-term safe probability. Then, we integrate this technique into safe control and learning. The proposed control methods efficiently assure long-term safety using neural networks or model predictive controllers with short outlook horizons. The proposed learning methods can be used to guarantee long-term safety during and after training. Finally, we demonstrate the performance of the proposed techniques in numerical simulations.
title Myopically Verifiable Probabilistic Certificates for Safe Control and Learning
topic Systems and Control
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16883