Online Adaptive Compensation for Model Uncertainty Using Extreme Learning Machine-based Control Barrier Functions

October 2022

Online Adaptive Compensation for Model Uncertainty Using Extreme Learning Machine-based Control Barrier Functions

Authors:

Emanuel Munoz Panduro, Dvij Kalaria, Qin Lin, and John M. Dolan
Conference Paper
Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Abstract:

A control barrier functions-based quadratic programming (CBF-QP) has emerged as a controller synthesis tool to assure safety of autonomous systems owing to the appealing safe forward invariant set. However, the provable safety relies on a precisely described dynamic model, which is not always available in practice. Recent works have leveraged learning to compensate model uncertainty for a CBF controller. However, these approaches based on reinforcement learning or episodic learning are limited to dealing with time-invariant uncertainty. Also, the reinforcement learning approach learns the uncertainty offline while episodic learning only updates the controller after a batch of data is available by the end of an episode. Instead, we propose a novel tuning extreme learning machine (tELM)-based CBF controller that can compensate time-variant and time-invariant model uncertainty adaptively in an online manner. We validate our approach's effectiveness in a simulation of an Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) system.
@conference{Panduro-2022-132292,
author = {Emanuel Munoz Panduro And Dvij Kalaria And Qin Lin And John M. Dolan},
title = {Online Adaptive Compensation for Model Uncertainty Using Extreme Learning Machine-based Control Barrier Functions},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems},
year = {2022},
month = {October},
}
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