F. Park, N. Viswanadham, Ken Goldberg, M. Wang, Yu Sun, Mengchu Zhou, B. Lennartson, Fan-Tien Cheng
{"title":"Peter Luh, the Father of Automation [In Memoriam]","authors":"F. Park, N. Viswanadham, Ken Goldberg, M. Wang, Yu Sun, Mengchu Zhou, B. Lennartson, Fan-Tien Cheng","doi":"10.1109/mra.2023.3238256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mra.2023.3238256","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13196,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78199045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lei Yang, Yifei Hu, Lihai Zhang, Peng Zhang, C. Schlenoff
{"title":"Three New IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Standards Working Groups on Surgical Robotics and Electric Vehicle Charging Robots [Standards]","authors":"Lei Yang, Yifei Hu, Lihai Zhang, Peng Zhang, C. Schlenoff","doi":"10.1109/mra.2023.3237468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mra.2023.3237468","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13196,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73631303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An accurate and efficient approach to probabilistic conflict prediction","authors":"Christian E. Roelofse, C. E. V. Daalen","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2302.13413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2302.13413","url":null,"abstract":"Conflict prediction is a vital component of path planning for autonomous vehicles. Prediction methods must be accurate for reliable navigation, but also computationally efficient to enable online path planning. Efficient prediction methods are especially crucial when testing large sets of candidate trajectories. We present a prediction method that has the same accuracy as existing methods, but up to an order of magnitude faster. This is achieved by rewriting the conflict prediction problem in terms of the first-passage time distribution using a dimension-reduction transform. First-passage time distributions are analytically derived for a subset of Gaussian processes describing vehicle motion. The proposed method is applicable to 2-D stochastic processes where the mean can be approximated by line segments, and the conflict boundary can be approximated by piece-wise straight lines. The proposed method was tested in simulation and compared to two probability flow methods, as well as a recent instantaneous conflict probability method. The results demonstrate a significant decrease of computation time.","PeriodicalId":13196,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73570500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Addendum to the Problem of Zero-Sum LQ Stochastic Mean-Field Dynamic Games (Extended version)","authors":"S. Aberkane, V. Drăgan","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2302.09609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2302.09609","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we first address a linear quadratic mean-field game problem with a leader-follower structure. By adopting a Riccati-type approach, we show how one can obtain a state-feedback representation of the pairs of strategies which achieve an open-loop Stackelberg equilibrium in terms of the global solutions of a system of coupled matrix differential Riccati-type equations. In the second part of this paper, we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of the involved coupled generalized Riccati equations.","PeriodicalId":13196,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74318548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Logarithmically Completely Monotonic Rational Functions","authors":"Hamed Taghavian, R. Drummond, Mikael Johansson","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2302.08773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2302.08773","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the class of logarithmically completely monotonic (LCM) functions. These functions play an important role in characterising externally positive linear systems which find applications in important control problems such as non-overshooting reference tracking. Conditions are proposed to ensure a rational function is LCM, a result that enables the known space of linear continuous-time externally positive systems to be enlarged and an efficient and optimal pole-placement procedure for the monotonic tracking controller synthesis problem to be developed. The presented conditions are shown to be less conservative than existing approaches whilst being computationally tractable.","PeriodicalId":13196,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88795342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wenjie Liu, M. Wakaiki, Jian Sun, G. Wang, Jie Chen
{"title":"Self-triggered Resilient Stabilization of Linear Systems with Quantized Output","authors":"Wenjie Liu, M. Wakaiki, Jian Sun, G. Wang, Jie Chen","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2302.06906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2302.06906","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the problem of stabilizing a self-triggered control system with quantized output. Employing a standard observer-based state feedback control law, a self-triggering mechanism that dictates the next sampling time based on quantized output is co-developed with an output encoding scheme. If, in addition, the transmission protocols at the controller-to-actuator (C-A) and sensor-to-controller (S-C) channels can be adapted, the self-triggered control architecture can be considerably simplified, leveraging a delicate observer-based deadbeat controller to eliminate the need for running the controller in parallel at the encoder side. To account for denial-of-service (DoS) in the S-C channel, the proposed output encoding and self-triggered control schemes are further made resilient. It is shown that a linear time-invariant system can be exponentially stabilized if some conditions on the average DoS duration time are met. There is a trade-off between the maximum inter-sampling time and the resilience against DoS attacks. Finally, a numerical example is presented to demonstrate the practical merits of the proposed self-triggered control schemes and associated theory.","PeriodicalId":13196,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89831499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An LMI Framework for Contraction-based Nonlinear Control Design by Derivatives of Gaussian Process Regression","authors":"Y. Kawano, K. Kashima","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2301.08398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2301.08398","url":null,"abstract":"Contraction theory formulates the analysis of nonlinear systems in terms of Jacobian matrices. Although this provides the potential to develop a linear matrix inequality (LMI) framework for nonlinear control design, conditions are imposed not on controllers but on their partial derivatives, which makes control design challenging. In this paper, we illustrate this so-called integrability problem can be solved by a non-standard use of Gaussian process regression (GPR) for parameterizing controllers and then establish an LMI framework of contraction-based control design for nonlinear discrete-time systems, as an easy-to-implement tool. Later on, we consider the case where the drift vector fields are unknown and employ GPR for functional fitting as its standard use. GPR describes learning errors in terms of probability, and thus we further discuss how to incorporate stochastic learning errors into the proposed LMI framework.","PeriodicalId":13196,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73128330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Entropic Model Predictive Optimal Transport over Dynamical Systems","authors":"Kaito Ito, K. Kashima","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2301.06492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2301.06492","url":null,"abstract":"We consider the optimal control problem of steering an agent population to a desired distribution over an infinite horizon. This is an optimal transport problem over dynamical systems, which is challenging due to its high computational cost. In this paper, by using entropy regularization, we propose Sinkhorn MPC, which is a dynamical transport algorithm integrating model predictive control (MPC) and the so-called Sinkhorn algorithm. The notable feature of the proposed method is that it achieves cost-effective transport in real time by performing control and transport planning simultaneously, which is illustrated in numerical examples. Moreover, under some assumption on iterations of the Sinkhorn algorithm integrated in MPC, we reveal the global convergence property for Sinkhorn MPC thanks to the entropy regularization. Furthermore, focusing on a quadratic control cost, without the aforementioned assumption we show the ultimate boundedness and the local asymptotic stability for Sinkhorn MPC.","PeriodicalId":13196,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87608085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prediction based activation of vehicle safety systems - a contribution to improve to occupant safety by validation of pre-crash information and crash severity plus restraint strategy prediction","authors":"G. Sequeira","doi":"10.51202/9783186817129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51202/9783186817129","url":null,"abstract":"The world of transportation is rapidly changing with the introduction of partial autonomy in vehicles and the race between the manufacturers to produce a fully automated passenger vehicle. In addition, to enhance driving comfort and reduce the driving workload, these automated vehicles are also visualized as an approach to reduce the majority of accidents that are caused by human errors. However, accidents do happen and there are also some likelihoods that these automated vehicles might fail. Especially in the initial introductory years, which highlights the need for passive safety systems in safeguarding the occupants. These vehicles typically employ forward-looking sensors for the perception of the surrounding environment, which presents an opportunity to use the information from these sensors to predict an upcoming inevitable crash and further estimate the passive safety action required for the predicted crash in the pre-crash phase. This work presents an approach to activate the vehicle safety systems based on the precrash prediction. Contents 1 Introduction 1 1.1 History of vehicle safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.2 Problem formulation . . . . ....","PeriodicalId":13196,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77611774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}