Multiple Control Barrier Functions: An Application to Reactive Obstacle Avoidance for a Multi-steering Tractor-trailer System
Control barrier functions (CBFs) recently introduced a systematic way to guarantee the system's safety through set invariance. Together with a nominal control method, it establishes a safety-critical control mechanism. The resulting safety constraints can be enforced as hard constraints in quadratic programming (QP) optimization, which rectifies the nominal control law based on the set of safe inputs. In this work, we introduce a multiple CBFs scheme which enforces several safety constraints with high relative degrees. This control structure is essential in many challenging robotic applications that need to meet several safety criteria simultaneously. In order to illustrate the capabilities of the proposed method, we have addressed the problem of reactive obstacle avoidance for a class of tractor-trailer systems. Safety is one of the fundamental issues in autonomous tractor-trailer systems design. The lack of fast response due to poor maneuverability makes reactive obstacle avoidance difficult for these systems. We develop a control structure based on a multiple CBFs scheme for a multi-steering tractor-trailer system to ensure a collision-free maneuver for both the tractor and trailer in the presence of several obstacles. Model predictive control is selected as the nominal tracking controller, and the proposed control strategy is tested in several challenging scenarios.
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