Search Results for author: Zhiyong Sun

Found 24 papers, 4 papers with code

Intention-Aware Control Based on Belief-Space Specifications and Stochastic Expansion

1 code implementation13 Apr 2024 Zengjie Zhang, Zhiyong Sun, Sofie Haesaert

This paper develops a correct-by-design controller for an autonomous vehicle interacting with opponent vehicles with unknown intentions.

Autonomous Driving Model Predictive Control

A Comparative Study of Artificial Potential Fields and Safety Filters

no code implementations23 Mar 2024 Ming Li, Zhiyong Sun

In this paper, we have demonstrated that the controllers designed by a classical motion planning tool, namely artificial potential fields (APFs), can be derived from a recently prevalent approach: control barrier function quadratic program (CBF-QP) safety filters.

Motion Planning

A Tunable Universal Formula for Safety-Critical Control

no code implementations10 Mar 2024 Ming Li, Zhiyong Sun, Patrick J. W. Koelewijn, Siep Weiland

Finally, we demonstrate the efficacy of our method through a collision avoidance example, investigating the essential properties including safety, robustness, and smoothness under various tunable scaling terms.

Collision Avoidance

Unifying Controller Design for Stabilizing Nonlinear Systems with Norm-Bounded Control Inputs

no code implementations5 Mar 2024 Ming Li, Zhiyong Sun, Siep Weiland

This paper revisits a classical challenge in the design of stabilizing controllers for nonlinear systems with a norm-bounded input constraint.

Data-driven Dynamic Event-triggered Control

no code implementations7 Jan 2024 Tao Xu, Zhiyong Sun, Guanghui Wen, Zhisheng Duan

This paper revisits the event-triggered control problem from a data-driven perspective, where unknown continuous-time linear systems subject to disturbances are taken into account.

Quantization

Safe Stabilization with Model Uncertainties: A Universal Formula with Gaussian Process Learning

no code implementations5 Dec 2023 Ming Li, Zhiyong Sun

In our previous research, we developed an analytical control strategy, namely the universal formula, that incorporates CLF and CBF conditions for safe stabilization.

Gaussian Processes

A Novel Dynamic Event-triggered Mechanism for Dynamic Average Consensus

no code implementations22 Nov 2023 Tao Xu, Zhisheng Duan, Guanghui Wen, Zhiyong Sun

This paper studies a challenging issue introduced in a recent survey, namely designing a distributed event-based scheme to solve the dynamic average consensus (DAC) problem.

CircleFormer: Circular Nuclei Detection in Whole Slide Images with Circle Queries and Attention

1 code implementation30 Aug 2023 Hengxu Zhang, Pengpeng Liang, Zhiyong Sun, Bo Song, Erkang Cheng

Inspired by the recent anchor free CNN-based circular object detection method (CircleNet) for ball-shape glomeruli detection in renal pathology, in this paper, we present CircleFormer, a Transformer-based circular medical object detection with dynamic anchor circles.

Medical Object Detection Object +3

Risk-Aware Reward Shaping of Reinforcement Learning Agents for Autonomous Driving

1 code implementation5 Jun 2023 Lin-Chi Wu, Zengjie Zhang, Sofie Haesaert, Zhiqiang Ma, Zhiyong Sun

Reinforcement learning (RL) is an effective approach to motion planning in autonomous driving, where an optimal driving policy can be automatically learned using the interaction data with the environment.

Autonomous Driving Motion Planning +3

Decentralised adaptive-gain control for eliminating epidemic spreading on networks

no code implementations26 May 2023 Liam Walsh, Mengbin Ye, Brian D. O. Anderson, Zhiyong Sun

We first identify a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a subset of nodes, which if controlled would result in the elimination of the disease.

A port-Hamiltonian framework for displacement-based and rigid formation tracking

no code implementations17 May 2023 Ningbo Li, Zhiyong Sun, Arjan van der Schaft, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen

Regarding the external feedback, a general framework is proposed for all kinds of formations by means of the advantage that the pH model is energy-based and coordinate-free.

Moving Obstacle Collision Avoidance via Chance-Constrained MPC with CBF

no code implementations4 Apr 2023 Ming Li, Zhiyong Sun, Zirui Liao, Siep Weiland

Model predictive control (MPC) with control barrier functions (CBF) is a promising solution to address the moving obstacle collision avoidance (MOCA) problem.

Collision Avoidance Model Predictive Control

Automated Formation Control Synthesis from Temporal Logic Specifications

no code implementations1 Apr 2023 Shuhao Qi, Zengjie Zhang, Sofie Haesaert, Zhiyong Sun

In many practical scenarios, multi-robot systems are envisioned to support humans in executing complicated tasks within structured environments, such as search-and-rescue tasks.

Navigate

Characterizing bearing equivalence in directed graphs

no code implementations9 Mar 2023 Zhiyong Sun, Shiyu Zhao, Daniel Zelazo

These conditions involve the spectrum and null space of the associated bearing Laplacian matrix for a directed bearing formation.

Modelling and Kron reduction of power flow networks in directed graphs

no code implementations17 Feb 2023 Ruohan Wang, Zhiyong Sun

Electrical grids are large-sized complex systems that require strong computing power for monitoring and analysis.

A gallery of diagonal stability conditions with structured matrices (and review papers)

no code implementations1 Jan 2023 Zhiyong Sun

This note presents a summary and review of various conditions and characterizations for matrix stability (in particular diagonal matrix stability) and matrix stabilizability.

Cooperative constrained motion coordination of networked heterogeneous vehicles

no code implementations17 Jan 2022 Zhiyong Sun, Marcus Greiff, Anders Robertsson, Rolf Johansson, Brian D. O. Anderson

We develop a general framework involving differential-algebraic equations and viability theory to determine coordination feasibility for a coordinated motion control under heterogeneous vehicle dynamics and different types of coordination task constraints.

Quadrotor Control on $SU(2)\times R^3$ with SLAM Integration

no code implementations3 Oct 2021 Marcus Greiff, Patrik Persson, Zhiyong Sun, Karl Åström, Anders Robertsson

We present a trajectory tracking controller for a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configured on $SU(2)\times R^3$, and relate this result to a family of geometric tracking controllers on $SO(3)\times R^3$.

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

Distributed adaptive stabilization

no code implementations28 May 2021 Zhiyong Sun, Anders Rantzer, Zhongkui Li, Anders Robertsson

In this paper we consider distributed adaptive stabilization for uncertain multivariable linear systems with a time-varying diagonal matrix gain.

Optimal control of nonlinear systems with unsymmetrical input constraints and its applications to the UAV circumnavigation problem

no code implementations27 May 2020 Yangguang Yu, Xiangke Wang, Zhiyong Sun, Lincheng Shen

In this paper, a novel design scheme is introduced to solve the optimal control problem for nonlinear systems with unsymmetrical and state-dependent input constraints.

Balance Between Efficient and Effective Learning: Dense2Sparse Reward Shaping for Robot Manipulation with Environment Uncertainty

no code implementations5 Mar 2020 Yongle Luo, Kun Dong, Lili Zhao, Zhiyong Sun, Chao Zhou, Bo Song

The experiment results show that the Dense2Sparse method obtained higher expected reward compared with the ones using standalone dense reward or sparse reward, and it also has a superior tolerance of system uncertainty.

Robot Manipulation

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