Provably-Safe, Online System Identification

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Main Authors: Zhang, Bohao, Zhou, Zichang, Vasudevan, Ram
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Published: 2025
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author Zhang, Bohao
Zhou, Zichang
Vasudevan, Ram
author_facet Zhang, Bohao
Zhou, Zichang
Vasudevan, Ram
contents Precise manipulation tasks require accurate knowledge of payload inertial parameters. Unfortunately, identifying these parameters for unknown payloads while ensuring that the robotic system satisfies its input and state constraints while avoiding collisions with the environment remains a significant challenge. This paper presents an integrated framework that enables robotic manipulators to safely and automatically identify payload parameters while maintaining operational safety guarantees. The framework consists of two synergistic components: an online trajectory planning and control framework that generates provably-safe exciting trajectories for system identification that can be tracked while respecting robot constraints and avoiding obstacles and a robust system identification method that computes rigorous overapproximative bounds on end-effector inertial parameters assuming bounded sensor noise. Experimental validation on a robotic manipulator performing challenging tasks with various unknown payloads demonstrates the framework's effectiveness in establishing accurate parameter bounds while maintaining safety throughout the identification process. The code is available at our project webpage: https://roahmlab.github.io/OnlineSafeSysID/.
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spellingShingle Provably-Safe, Online System Identification
Zhang, Bohao
Zhou, Zichang
Vasudevan, Ram
Robotics
Precise manipulation tasks require accurate knowledge of payload inertial parameters. Unfortunately, identifying these parameters for unknown payloads while ensuring that the robotic system satisfies its input and state constraints while avoiding collisions with the environment remains a significant challenge. This paper presents an integrated framework that enables robotic manipulators to safely and automatically identify payload parameters while maintaining operational safety guarantees. The framework consists of two synergistic components: an online trajectory planning and control framework that generates provably-safe exciting trajectories for system identification that can be tracked while respecting robot constraints and avoiding obstacles and a robust system identification method that computes rigorous overapproximative bounds on end-effector inertial parameters assuming bounded sensor noise. Experimental validation on a robotic manipulator performing challenging tasks with various unknown payloads demonstrates the framework's effectiveness in establishing accurate parameter bounds while maintaining safety throughout the identification process. The code is available at our project webpage: https://roahmlab.github.io/OnlineSafeSysID/.
title Provably-Safe, Online System Identification
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21486