Inverse Safety Filtering: Inferring Constraints from Safety Filters for Decentralized Coordination

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Autori principali: Nguyen, Minh, Li, Jingqi, Qu, Gechen, Tomlin, Claire J.
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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author Nguyen, Minh
Li, Jingqi
Qu, Gechen
Tomlin, Claire J.
author_facet Nguyen, Minh
Li, Jingqi
Qu, Gechen
Tomlin, Claire J.
contents Safe multi-agent coordination in uncertain environments can benefit from learning constraints from other agents. Implicitly communicating safety constraints through actions is a promising approach, allowing agents to coordinate and maintain safety without expensive communication channels. This paper introduces an online method to infer constraints from observing the safety-filtered actions of other agents. We approach the problem by using safety filters to ensure forward safety and exploit their structure to work backwards and infer constraints. We provide sufficient conditions under which we can infer these constraints and prove that our inference method converges. This constraint inference procedure is coupled with a decentralized planning method that ensures safety when the constraint activation distance is sufficiently large. We then empirically validate our method with Monte Carlo simulations and hardware experiments with quadruped robots.
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spellingShingle Inverse Safety Filtering: Inferring Constraints from Safety Filters for Decentralized Coordination
Nguyen, Minh
Li, Jingqi
Qu, Gechen
Tomlin, Claire J.
Systems and Control
Safe multi-agent coordination in uncertain environments can benefit from learning constraints from other agents. Implicitly communicating safety constraints through actions is a promising approach, allowing agents to coordinate and maintain safety without expensive communication channels. This paper introduces an online method to infer constraints from observing the safety-filtered actions of other agents. We approach the problem by using safety filters to ensure forward safety and exploit their structure to work backwards and infer constraints. We provide sufficient conditions under which we can infer these constraints and prove that our inference method converges. This constraint inference procedure is coupled with a decentralized planning method that ensures safety when the constraint activation distance is sufficiently large. We then empirically validate our method with Monte Carlo simulations and hardware experiments with quadruped robots.
title Inverse Safety Filtering: Inferring Constraints from Safety Filters for Decentralized Coordination
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02687