Polytope Volume Monitoring Problem: Formulation and Solution via Parametric Linear Program Based Control Barrier Function

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Main Authors: Wu, Shizhen, Dong, Jinyang, Fang, Xu, Sun, Ning, Fang, Yongchun
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Published: 2025
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author Wu, Shizhen
Dong, Jinyang
Fang, Xu
Sun, Ning
Fang, Yongchun
author_facet Wu, Shizhen
Dong, Jinyang
Fang, Xu
Sun, Ning
Fang, Yongchun
contents Motivated by the latest research on feasible space monitoring of multiple control barrier functions (CBFs) as well as polytopic collision avoidance, this paper studies the Polytope Volume Monitoring (PVM) problem, whose goal is to design a control law for inputs of nonlinear systems to prevent the volume of some state-dependent polytope from decreasing to zero. Recent studies have explored the idea of applying Chebyshev ball method in optimization theory to solve the case study of PVM; however, the underlying difficulties caused by nonsmoothness have not been addressed. This paper continues the study on this topic, where our main contribution is to establish the relationship between nonsmooth CBF and parametric optimization theory through directional derivatives for the first time, to solve PVM problems more conveniently. In detail, inspired by Chebyshev ball approach, a parametric linear program (PLP) based nonsmooth barrier function candidate is established for PVM, and then, sufficient conditions for it to be a nonsmooth CBF are proposed, based on which a quadratic program (QP) based safety filter with guaranteed feasibility is proposed to address PVM problems. Finally, a numerical simulation example is given to show the efficiency of the proposed safety filter.
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spellingShingle Polytope Volume Monitoring Problem: Formulation and Solution via Parametric Linear Program Based Control Barrier Function
Wu, Shizhen
Dong, Jinyang
Fang, Xu
Sun, Ning
Fang, Yongchun
Optimization and Control
Robotics
Systems and Control
Motivated by the latest research on feasible space monitoring of multiple control barrier functions (CBFs) as well as polytopic collision avoidance, this paper studies the Polytope Volume Monitoring (PVM) problem, whose goal is to design a control law for inputs of nonlinear systems to prevent the volume of some state-dependent polytope from decreasing to zero. Recent studies have explored the idea of applying Chebyshev ball method in optimization theory to solve the case study of PVM; however, the underlying difficulties caused by nonsmoothness have not been addressed. This paper continues the study on this topic, where our main contribution is to establish the relationship between nonsmooth CBF and parametric optimization theory through directional derivatives for the first time, to solve PVM problems more conveniently. In detail, inspired by Chebyshev ball approach, a parametric linear program (PLP) based nonsmooth barrier function candidate is established for PVM, and then, sufficient conditions for it to be a nonsmooth CBF are proposed, based on which a quadratic program (QP) based safety filter with guaranteed feasibility is proposed to address PVM problems. Finally, a numerical simulation example is given to show the efficiency of the proposed safety filter.
title Polytope Volume Monitoring Problem: Formulation and Solution via Parametric Linear Program Based Control Barrier Function
topic Optimization and Control
Robotics
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12546