From Space to Time: Enabling Adaptive Safety with Learned Value Functions via Disturbance Recasting
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| author | Tonkens, Sander Shinde, Nikhil Uday Begzadić, Azra Yip, Michael C. Cortés, Jorge Herbert, Sylvia L. |
| author_facet | Tonkens, Sander Shinde, Nikhil Uday Begzadić, Azra Yip, Michael C. Cortés, Jorge Herbert, Sylvia L. |
| contents | The widespread deployment of autonomous systems in safety-critical environments such as urban air mobility hinges on ensuring reliable, performant, and safe operation under varying environmental conditions. One such approach, value function-based safety filters, minimally modifies a nominal controller to ensure safety. Recent advances leverage offline learned value functions to scale these safety filters to high-dimensional systems. However, these methods assume detailed priors on all possible sources of model mismatch, in the form of disturbances in the environment -- information that is rarely available in real world settings. Even in well-mapped environments like urban canyons or industrial sites, drones encounter complex, spatially-varying disturbances arising from payload-drone interaction, turbulent airflow, and other environmental factors. We introduce SPACE2TIME, which enables safe and adaptive deployment of offline-learned safety filters under unknown, spatially-varying disturbances. The key idea is to reparameterize spatial variations in disturbance as temporal variations, enabling the use of precomputed value functions during online operation. We validate SPACE2TIME on a quadcopter through extensive simulations and hardware experiments, demonstrating significant improvement over baselines. |
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| spellingShingle | From Space to Time: Enabling Adaptive Safety with Learned Value Functions via Disturbance Recasting Tonkens, Sander Shinde, Nikhil Uday Begzadić, Azra Yip, Michael C. Cortés, Jorge Herbert, Sylvia L. Robotics Systems and Control The widespread deployment of autonomous systems in safety-critical environments such as urban air mobility hinges on ensuring reliable, performant, and safe operation under varying environmental conditions. One such approach, value function-based safety filters, minimally modifies a nominal controller to ensure safety. Recent advances leverage offline learned value functions to scale these safety filters to high-dimensional systems. However, these methods assume detailed priors on all possible sources of model mismatch, in the form of disturbances in the environment -- information that is rarely available in real world settings. Even in well-mapped environments like urban canyons or industrial sites, drones encounter complex, spatially-varying disturbances arising from payload-drone interaction, turbulent airflow, and other environmental factors. We introduce SPACE2TIME, which enables safe and adaptive deployment of offline-learned safety filters under unknown, spatially-varying disturbances. The key idea is to reparameterize spatial variations in disturbance as temporal variations, enabling the use of precomputed value functions during online operation. We validate SPACE2TIME on a quadcopter through extensive simulations and hardware experiments, demonstrating significant improvement over baselines. |
| title | From Space to Time: Enabling Adaptive Safety with Learned Value Functions via Disturbance Recasting |
| topic | Robotics Systems and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19597 |