Time-Varying Soft-Maximum Control Barrier Functions for Safety in an A Priori Unknown Environment
This paper presents a time-varying soft-maximum composite control barrier function (CBF) that can be used to ensure safety in an a priori unknown environment, where local perception information regarding the safe set is periodically obtained. We consider the scenario where the periodically obtained perception feedback can be used to construct a local CBF that models a local subset of the unknown safe set. Then, we use a novel smooth time-varying soft-maximum function to compose the N most recently obtained local CBFs into a single CBF. This composite CBF models an approximate union of the N most recently obtained local subsets of the safe set. Notably, this composite CBF can have arbitrary relative degree r. Next, this composite CBF is used as a rth-order CBF constraint in a real-time optimization to determine a control that minimizes a quadratic cost while guaranteeing that the state stays in a time-varying subset of the unknown safe set. We also present an application of the time-varying soft-maximum composite CBF method to a nonholonomic ground robot with nonnegligible inertia. In this application, we present a simple approach to generate the local CBFs from the periodically obtained perception data.
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