Safety Assurance for Quadrotor Kinodynamic Motion Planning

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Main Authors: Tavoulareas, Theodoros, Cescon, Marzia
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Published: 2025
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author Tavoulareas, Theodoros
Cescon, Marzia
author_facet Tavoulareas, Theodoros
Cescon, Marzia
contents Autonomous drones have gained considerable attention for applications in real-world scenarios, such as search and rescue, inspection, and delivery. As their use becomes ever more pervasive in civilian applications, failure to ensure safe operation can lead to physical damage to the system, environmental pollution, and even loss of human life. Recent work has demonstrated that motion planning techniques effectively generate a collision-free trajectory during navigation. However, these methods, while creating the motion plans, do not inherently consider the safe operational region of the system, leading to potential safety constraints violation during deployment. In this paper, we propose a method that leverages run time safety assurance in a kinodynamic motion planning scheme to satisfy the system's operational constraints. First, we use a sampling-based geometric planner to determine a high-level collision-free path within a user-defined space. Second, we design a low-level safety assurance filter to provide safety guarantees to the control input of a Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) designed with the purpose of trajectory tracking. We demonstrate our proposed approach in a restricted 3D simulation environment using a model of the Crazyflie 2.0 drone.
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spellingShingle Safety Assurance for Quadrotor Kinodynamic Motion Planning
Tavoulareas, Theodoros
Cescon, Marzia
Robotics
Autonomous drones have gained considerable attention for applications in real-world scenarios, such as search and rescue, inspection, and delivery. As their use becomes ever more pervasive in civilian applications, failure to ensure safe operation can lead to physical damage to the system, environmental pollution, and even loss of human life. Recent work has demonstrated that motion planning techniques effectively generate a collision-free trajectory during navigation. However, these methods, while creating the motion plans, do not inherently consider the safe operational region of the system, leading to potential safety constraints violation during deployment. In this paper, we propose a method that leverages run time safety assurance in a kinodynamic motion planning scheme to satisfy the system's operational constraints. First, we use a sampling-based geometric planner to determine a high-level collision-free path within a user-defined space. Second, we design a low-level safety assurance filter to provide safety guarantees to the control input of a Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) designed with the purpose of trajectory tracking. We demonstrate our proposed approach in a restricted 3D simulation environment using a model of the Crazyflie 2.0 drone.
title Safety Assurance for Quadrotor Kinodynamic Motion Planning
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17679