Safe Learning-based Control in Unknown Environments

This research proposal aims to advance safety of data-driven (or learning-based) control, with applications to safe exploration of unknown environments (e.g., search and rescue with aerial robots). The project will investigate fundamental limits of safe learning-based control in terms of both sample complexity and computational complexity. Informed by these limits, we will develop algorithms at the intersection of machine learning, reinforcement learning and robust control to provide safety certificates that are less conservative and more computationally-efficient compared to the state-of-the-art methods.

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Project ID: 1121