A Control Barrier Function Approach for Observer-based Visually Safe Pursuit Control with Spherical Obstacles

Tesshu Fujinami*, Junya Yamauchi*, Riku Funada*, Masayuki Fujita

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Abstract

Pursuing a target in the presence of obstacles requires that an autonomous mobile robot keeps sight of the target in a way robust to the target's unknown behavior. This paper presents visually safe pursuit control, which keeps a target with the unknown motion inside the camera's field of view while preventing occlusion caused by spherical obstacles. Framed as forward invariance of sets in the SE(3) state space, visual safety is ensured by the Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) approach. Concretely, by showing the Input-to-State stability of the vision-based observer that estimates the target's motion, we design safety certificates for visual safety that accommodate uncertainties in the target's motion. This enables us to synthesize a safe controller as a Quadratic Programming problem. Finally, the theoretical results are verified via a simulation of a visual pursuit scenario.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIFAC-PapersOnLine
EditorsHideaki Ishii, Yoshio Ebihara, Jun-ichi Imura, Masaki Yamakita
PublisherElsevier B.V.
Pages10799-10804
Number of pages6
Edition2
ISBN (Electronic)9781713872344
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023/07/01
Event22nd IFAC World Congress - Yokohama, Japan
Duration: 2023/07/092023/07/14

Publication series

NameIFAC-PapersOnLine
Number2
Volume56
ISSN (Electronic)2405-8963

Conference

Conference22nd IFAC World Congress
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityYokohama
Period2023/07/092023/07/14

Keywords

  • Control barrier functions
  • Mobile robots
  • Nonlinear observers
  • Real time optimization
  • Vision-based Control
  • control

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering

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