Safety-Critical Systems | Sylvia Herbert | RoboLaunch 2024

For this presentation in our RoboLaunch series, our guest speaker is Professor Sylvia Herbert. Sylvia Herbert is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) where she leads the Safe Autonomous Systems Lab. Prior to joining UCSD, she received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley, where she studied with Professor Claire Tomlin on safe and efficient control of autonomous systems. Before that she earned her BS/MS at Drexel University in Mechanical Engineering. She is the recipient of the ONR Young Investigator Award, Hellman Fellowship, UCSD JSOE Early Career Faculty Award, UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Fellowship, NSF GRFP, UC Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, and the Berkeley EECS Demetri Angelakos Memorial Achievement Award for Altruism.
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Chapters
0:00 - Speaker Intro
1:50 - What is a Safety-Critical System?
3:38 - Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability Analysis (HJR)
10:02 - Limitations of current work
12:26 - Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) overview
13:20 - Differences between CBFs and HJR methods
19:57 - CBFs for safety
25:41 - Sequential Neural CBF
28:24 - Initial hardware demonstration
29:17 - Simulations
31:08 - Summary
34:19 - Q&A
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