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 ...

New vehicle-mounted barrier systems allow emergency responders to deploy long-span crowd control barriers quickly during incidents and public safety operations. Emergency personnel often need to ...

Intelligent control has become a cornerstone of modern robotics and autonomous systems, where agents must operate safely and reliably despite uncertainty in ...