Safety-Constrained Learning and Control using Scarce Data and Reciprocal Barriers
We develop a control algorithm that ensures the safety, in terms of confinement in a set, of a system with unknown, 2nd-order nonlinear dynamics. The algorithm establishes novel connections between data-driven and robust, nonlinear control. It is based on data obtained online from the current trajectory and the concept of reciprocal barriers. More specifically, it first uses the obtained data to calculate set-valued functions that over-approximate the unknown dynamic terms. For the second step of the algorithm, we design a robust control scheme that uses these functions as well as reciprocal barriers to render the system forward invariant with respect to the safe set. In addition, we provide an extension of the algorithm that tackles issues of controllability loss incurred by the nullspace of the control-direction matrix. The algorithm removes a series of standard, limiting assumptions considered in the related literature since it does not require global boundedness, growth conditions, or a priori approximations of the unknown dynamics' terms.
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