Cosner, Ryan K. and Tucker, Maegan and Taylor, Andrew J. and Li, Kejun and Molnár, Tamás G. and Ubellacker, Wyatt and Alan, Anil and Orosz, Gábor and Yue, Yisong and Ames, Aaron D. (2021) Safety-Aware Preference-Based Learning for Safety-Critical Control. . (Unpublished) https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20220224-200843937
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Abstract
Bringing dynamic robots into the wild requires a tenuous balance between performance and safety. Yet controllers designed to provide robust safety guarantees often result in conservative behavior, and tuning these controllers to find the ideal trade-off between performance and safety typically requires domain expertise or a carefully constructed reward function. This work presents a design paradigm for systematically achieving behaviors that balance performance and robust safety by integrating safety-aware Preference-Based Learning (PBL) with Control Barrier Functions (CBFs). Fusing these concepts -- safety-aware learning and safety-critical control -- gives a robust means to achieve safe behaviors on complex robotic systems in practice. We demonstrate the capability of this design paradigm to achieve safe and performant perception-based autonomous operation of a quadrupedal robot both in simulation and experimentally on hardware.
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Additional Information: | © 2022 R.K. Cosner, M. Tucker, A.J. Taylor, K. Li, T.G. Molnar, W. Ubellacker, A. Alan, G. Orosz, Y. Yue & A.D. Ames. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). | ||||||||||||||||||||
Subject Keywords: | Preference-Based Learning, Control Barrier Functions, Safety-Critical Control, Robotics | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Deposited By: | George Porter | ||||||||||||||||||||
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