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| author | Gonzalez-Garcia, Alejandro Xiao, Wei Wang, Wei Astudillo, Alejandro Decré, Wilm Swevers, Jan Ratti, Carlo Rus, Daniela |
| author_facet | Gonzalez-Garcia, Alejandro Xiao, Wei Wang, Wei Astudillo, Alejandro Decré, Wilm Swevers, Jan Ratti, Carlo Rus, Daniela |
| contents | Safe motion planning is essential for autonomous vessel operations, especially in challenging spaces such as narrow inland waterways. However, conventional motion planning approaches are often computationally intensive or overly conservative. This paper proposes a safe motion planning strategy combining Model Predictive Control (MPC) and Control Barrier Functions (CBFs). We introduce a time-varying inflated ellipse obstacle representation, where the inflation radius is adjusted depending on the relative position and attitude between the vessel and the obstacle. The proposed adaptive inflation reduces the conservativeness of the controller compared to traditional fixed-ellipsoid obstacle formulations. The MPC solution provides an approximate motion plan, and high-order CBFs ensure the vessel's safety using the varying inflation radius. Simulation and real-world experiments demonstrate that the proposed strategy enables the fully-actuated autonomous robot vessel to navigate through narrow spaces in real time and resolve potential deadlocks, all while ensuring safety. |
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| spellingShingle | Safe Motion Planning and Control Using Predictive and Adaptive Barrier Methods for Autonomous Surface Vessels Gonzalez-Garcia, Alejandro Xiao, Wei Wang, Wei Astudillo, Alejandro Decré, Wilm Swevers, Jan Ratti, Carlo Rus, Daniela Robotics Safe motion planning is essential for autonomous vessel operations, especially in challenging spaces such as narrow inland waterways. However, conventional motion planning approaches are often computationally intensive or overly conservative. This paper proposes a safe motion planning strategy combining Model Predictive Control (MPC) and Control Barrier Functions (CBFs). We introduce a time-varying inflated ellipse obstacle representation, where the inflation radius is adjusted depending on the relative position and attitude between the vessel and the obstacle. The proposed adaptive inflation reduces the conservativeness of the controller compared to traditional fixed-ellipsoid obstacle formulations. The MPC solution provides an approximate motion plan, and high-order CBFs ensure the vessel's safety using the varying inflation radius. Simulation and real-world experiments demonstrate that the proposed strategy enables the fully-actuated autonomous robot vessel to navigate through narrow spaces in real time and resolve potential deadlocks, all while ensuring safety. |
| title | Safe Motion Planning and Control Using Predictive and Adaptive Barrier Methods for Autonomous Surface Vessels |
| topic | Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01357 |