Safe sequential path planning under disturbances and imperfect information

Somil Bansal, Mo Chen, Jaime F. Fisac, Claire J. Tomlin

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Abstract

Multi-UAV systems are safety-critical, and guarantees must be made to ensure no unsafe configurations occur. Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability is ideal for analyzing such safety-critical systems; however, its direct application is limited to small-scale systems of no more than two vehicles due to an exponentially-scaling computational complexity. Previously, the sequential path planning (SPP) method, which assigns strict priorities to vehicles, was proposed; SPP allows multi-vehicle path planning to be done with a linearly-scaling computational complexity. However, the previous formulation assumed that there are no disturbances, and that every vehicle has perfect knowledge of higher-priority vehicles' positions. In this paper, we make SPP more practical by providing three different methods to account for disturbances in dynamics and imperfect knowledge of higher-priority vehicles' states. Each method has different assumptions about information sharing. We demonstrate our proposed methods in simulations.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2017 American Control Conference, ACC 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages5550-5555
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781509059928
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 29 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event2017 American Control Conference, ACC 2017 - Seattle, United States
Duration: May 24 2017May 26 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings of the American Control Conference
ISSN (Print)0743-1619

Other

Other2017 American Control Conference, ACC 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySeattle
Period5/24/175/26/17

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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