Safe Quadrotor Navigation using Composite Control Barrier Functions
Authors: Marvin Harms, Martin Jacquet, Kostas Alexis
Abstract: This paper introduces a safety filter to ensure collision avoidance for multirotor aerial robots. The proposed formalism leverages a single Composite Control Barrier Function from all position constraints acting on a third-order nonlinear representation of the robot's dynamics. We analyze the recursive feasibility of the safety filter under the composite constraint and demonstrate that the infeasible set is negligible. The proposed method allows computational scalability against thousands of constraints and, thus, complex scenes with numerous obstacles. We experimentally demonstrate its ability to guarantee the safety of a quadrotor with an onboard LiDAR, operating in both indoor and outdoor cluttered environments against both naive and adversarial nominal policies.
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