Composition of Control Barrier Functions With Differing Relative Degrees for Safety Under Input Constraints
This paper presents a new approach for guaranteed safety subject to input constraints (e.g., actuator limits) using a composition of multiple control barrier functions (CBFs). First, we present a method for constructing a single CBF from multiple CBFs, which can have different relative degrees. This construction relies on a soft minimum function and yields a CBF whose $0$-superlevel set is a subset of the union of the $0$-superlevel sets of all the CBFs used in the construction. Next, we extend the approach to systems with input constraints. Specifically, we introduce control dynamics that allow us to express the input constraints as CBFs in the closed-loop state (i.e., the state of the system and the controller). The CBFs constructed from input constraints do not have the same relative degree as the safety constraints. Thus, the composite soft-minimum CBF construction is used to combine the input-constraint CBFs with the safety-constraint CBFs. Finally, we present a feasible real-time-optimization control that guarantees that the state remains in the $0$-superlevel set of the composite soft-minimum CBF. We demonstrate these approaches on a nonholonomic ground robot example.
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