Limiting Kinetic Energy through Control Barrier Functions: Analysis and Experimental Validation

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Main Authors: Califano, Federico, Logmans, Daniel, Roozing, Wesley
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Published: 2024
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author Califano, Federico
Logmans, Daniel
Roozing, Wesley
author_facet Califano, Federico
Logmans, Daniel
Roozing, Wesley
contents In the context of safety-critical control, we propose and analyse the use of Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) to limit the kinetic energy of torque-controlled robots. The proposed scheme is able to modify a nominal control action in a minimally invasive manner to achieve the desired kinetic energy limit. We show how this safety condition is achieved by appropriately injecting damping in the underlying robot dynamics independently of the nominal controller structure. We present an extensive experimental validation of the approach on a 7-Degree of Freedom (DoF) Franka Emika Panda robot. The results demonstrate that this approach provides an effective, minimally invasive safety layer that is straightforward to implement and is robust in real experiments.
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spellingShingle Limiting Kinetic Energy through Control Barrier Functions: Analysis and Experimental Validation
Califano, Federico
Logmans, Daniel
Roozing, Wesley
Robotics
Systems and Control
In the context of safety-critical control, we propose and analyse the use of Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) to limit the kinetic energy of torque-controlled robots. The proposed scheme is able to modify a nominal control action in a minimally invasive manner to achieve the desired kinetic energy limit. We show how this safety condition is achieved by appropriately injecting damping in the underlying robot dynamics independently of the nominal controller structure. We present an extensive experimental validation of the approach on a 7-Degree of Freedom (DoF) Franka Emika Panda robot. The results demonstrate that this approach provides an effective, minimally invasive safety layer that is straightforward to implement and is robust in real experiments.
title Limiting Kinetic Energy through Control Barrier Functions: Analysis and Experimental Validation
topic Robotics
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02186