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    Area of Science:

    • Control Theory
    • Robotics
    • Optimization

    Background:

    • Ensuring safety in discrete-time systems with high relative degrees is challenging.
    • Existing control barrier functions (CBFs) may face feasibility issues in complex scenarios.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To propose novel high-order discrete-time control barrier functions (CBFs).
    • To develop an adaptive discrete-time CBF for improved controller feasibility.
    • To unify CBFs with control Lyapunov functions for safe controller design.

    Main Methods:

    • Development of high-order discrete-time CBFs to guarantee forward invariance of safe sets.
    • Formulation of an optimization problem integrating high-order CBFs and discrete-time control Lyapunov functions.
    • Design of an adaptive discrete-time CBF utilizing time-varying penalty functions to relax control input constraints.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed high-order discrete-time CBF effectively handles high relative degree constraints.
    • The adaptive discrete-time CBF significantly improves the feasibility of optimization problems.
    • Validation on a three-link manipulator demonstrates the practical effectiveness of the methods.

    Conclusions:

    • The novel high-order and adaptive discrete-time CBFs provide a robust framework for safe control.
    • These methods enhance controller performance and feasibility for discrete-time systems.
    • The approach is effective for complex robotic systems like multi-link manipulators.