Control, as it shows up in this diary: safety filters between the planner and the motors, for one robot and for teams. Most of the control papers I have are about barrier functions.
Concepts
- Safe control: barrier functions, shields, and what they assume.
- Runtime monitoring, filed under safety and verification.
Open questions
- How should a barrier function treat a neighbour whose reported position it doesn’t trust?
- Can a safety filter promise progress as well as safety, at least for a while?
Papers
| Paper | Year | Venue | Domain | Threads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equivariant graph CBF | 2025 | arXiv 2025 | air | robustness |
| Energy-constrained coverage | 2025 | arXiv 2025 | general | robustness, long-term |
| CBF-QP | 2017 | IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 2017 | land | robustness |
| Safety barrier certificates | 2016 | ACC 2016 | land | robustness |
| Attack-resilient estimation | 2014 | IROS 2014 | land | robustness |
| STL robustness | 2010 | FORMATS 2010 (LNCS 6246) | general | robustness |
| Vicsek model convergence | 2003 | IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 48, no. 6, 2003 | general | robustness |
| Simplex | 2001 | IEEE Software 2001 | general | robustness |
| Hybrid automata | 1996 | LICS 1996 | general | robustness |
| Paper | Year | Venue | Domain | Threads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDBC | 2021 | ICLR 2021 | land, air | robustness |
Other subfields: perception, mapping and localisation, semantic mapping, planning and navigation, robot learning, multi-robot systems, safety and verification, security, Human-robot interaction, field robotics.