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 olloquium-speaker-series-professor-wei-xiao
RBE Colloquium Speaker Series: Professor Wei Xiao
Control Barrier Functions for X\n\n\n\n      \n      \n\n\n\nAbstract: Safe
 ty is central to autonomous systems and robots since a single failure coul
 d lead to catastrophic results.In unstructured complex environments where 
 system states and environment information are not available, thesafety-cri
 tical control problem ismuch morechallenging.In this talk, I will first di
 scusssafety from a control theoretic perspective withControl Barrier Funct
 ions (CBFs). CBFs capturethe evolution of thesafety requirements during th
 e execution of a controlsystem and can be used to guaranteesafety for all 
 times due to their forward invariance, and this method has been shown to b
 e very effective and efficient for nonlinear systems and constraints. Then
  I will discuss how to apply CBFs to different areas, such as control syst
 ems, robotics (autonomous ground vehicles, surface vessels, and flight veh
 icles, legged robots, robot swarms,soft robots, and manipulators), and mac
 hine learning (sequential and generative AI models), both in simulation an
 d in real world experiments.\nBio: Wei Xiaois currently an assistant profe
 ssor at the WPI robotics engineering department. He was a postdoctoral ass
 ociate at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence lab (CSAIL), Ma
 ssachusetts Institute of Technology. Before that,he received hisPh.D. degr
 ee from the Boston University, Brookline,MA, USA in 2021. His research int
 erests include safety-criticalcontrol theory and trustworthy machine learn
 ing, with a particularemphasis on robotics and multi-agent systems. He rec
 eivedan Outstanding Dissertation Award at Boston University, anOutstanding
  Student Paper Award at the 2020IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, a
 nd a Best Paper Nomination at ACM/IEEE ICCPS 2021.\n
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