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| author | Naeem, Ashik Abrar Haque, Mohammad Ariful |
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| contents | Autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance remain a core challenge of modern Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). While traditional control methods struggle with the complexity and variability of the environment, reinforcement learning (RL) enables UAVs to learn adaptive behaviors through interaction with the environment. Existing research with RL prioritizes the mission success at the expense of mission time and safety of UAVs. This study integrates Potential Based Reward Shaping (PBRS) with Control Lyapunov Functions (CLF) and Control Barrier Functions (CBF) to simultaneously optimize mission time and ensure formal safety guarantees. An RL model is trained in a generalized simple environment, then used in complex scenarios incorporating a CLF-CBF-QP filter without further training. Experimental results in simulated environments demonstrate a significant reduction in mission time and outstanding performance in complex environment. |
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| spellingShingle | Zero-Shot, Safe and Time-Efficient UAV Navigation via Potential-Based Reward Shaping, Control Lyapunov and Barrier Functions Naeem, Ashik Abrar Haque, Mohammad Ariful Systems and Control Machine Learning Robotics Autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance remain a core challenge of modern Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). While traditional control methods struggle with the complexity and variability of the environment, reinforcement learning (RL) enables UAVs to learn adaptive behaviors through interaction with the environment. Existing research with RL prioritizes the mission success at the expense of mission time and safety of UAVs. This study integrates Potential Based Reward Shaping (PBRS) with Control Lyapunov Functions (CLF) and Control Barrier Functions (CBF) to simultaneously optimize mission time and ensure formal safety guarantees. An RL model is trained in a generalized simple environment, then used in complex scenarios incorporating a CLF-CBF-QP filter without further training. Experimental results in simulated environments demonstrate a significant reduction in mission time and outstanding performance in complex environment. |
| title | Zero-Shot, Safe and Time-Efficient UAV Navigation via Potential-Based Reward Shaping, Control Lyapunov and Barrier Functions |
| topic | Systems and Control Machine Learning Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01787 |