Event-Triggered Adaptive Taylor-Lagrange Control for Safety-Critical Systems

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Hauptverfasser: Liu, Shuo, Xiao, Wei, Cassandras, Christos G., Belta, Calin A.
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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author Liu, Shuo
Xiao, Wei
Cassandras, Christos G.
Belta, Calin A.
author_facet Liu, Shuo
Xiao, Wei
Cassandras, Christos G.
Belta, Calin A.
contents This paper studies safety-critical control for nonlinear systems under sampled-data implementations of the controller. The recently proposed Taylor--Lagrange Control (TLC) method provides rigorous safety guarantees but relies on a fixed discretization-related parameter, which can lead to infeasibility or unsafety in the presence of input constraints and inter-sampling effects. To address these limitations, we propose an adaptive Taylor--Lagrange Control (aTLC) framework with an event-triggered implementation, where the discretization-related parameter defines the discretization time scale and is selected online as state-dependent rather than fixed. This enables the controller to dynamically balance feasibility and safety by adjusting the effective time scale of the Taylor expansion. The resulting controller is implemented as a sequence of Quadratic Programs (QPs) with input constraints. We further introduce a selection rule to choose the discretization-related parameter from a finite candidate set, favoring feasible inputs and improved safety. Simulation results on an adaptive cruise control (ACC) problem demonstrate that the proposed approach improves feasibility, guarantees safety, and achieves smoother control actions compared to TLC while requiring a single automatically tuned parameter.
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spellingShingle Event-Triggered Adaptive Taylor-Lagrange Control for Safety-Critical Systems
Liu, Shuo
Xiao, Wei
Cassandras, Christos G.
Belta, Calin A.
Systems and Control
This paper studies safety-critical control for nonlinear systems under sampled-data implementations of the controller. The recently proposed Taylor--Lagrange Control (TLC) method provides rigorous safety guarantees but relies on a fixed discretization-related parameter, which can lead to infeasibility or unsafety in the presence of input constraints and inter-sampling effects. To address these limitations, we propose an adaptive Taylor--Lagrange Control (aTLC) framework with an event-triggered implementation, where the discretization-related parameter defines the discretization time scale and is selected online as state-dependent rather than fixed. This enables the controller to dynamically balance feasibility and safety by adjusting the effective time scale of the Taylor expansion. The resulting controller is implemented as a sequence of Quadratic Programs (QPs) with input constraints. We further introduce a selection rule to choose the discretization-related parameter from a finite candidate set, favoring feasible inputs and improved safety. Simulation results on an adaptive cruise control (ACC) problem demonstrate that the proposed approach improves feasibility, guarantees safety, and achieves smoother control actions compared to TLC while requiring a single automatically tuned parameter.
title Event-Triggered Adaptive Taylor-Lagrange Control for Safety-Critical Systems
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00334