Control Barrier Functions are safety certificates that can be used to design add-on control units that filter the control action provided to the system. The objective is to modify the input command as ...

Aaron D. Ames is the Bren Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering and Control and Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a ...

Cassandras specializes in the areas of discrete event and hybrid systems, cooperative control, stochastic optimization, distributed optimization in network systems, and computer simulation, with ...

Safety-critical control occupies a central role in the design of dynamical systems that must operate reliably under stringent constraints. At its core, the discipline seeks to guarantee that the ...