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Poster

FESSNC: Fast Exponentially Stable and Safe Neural Controller

Jingdong Zhang · Luan Yang · Qunxi Zhu · Wei Lin


Abstract: In order to stabilize nonlinear systems modeled by stochastic differential equations, we design a $\textbf{F}$ast $\textbf{E}$xponentially $\textbf{S}$table and $\textbf{S}$afe $\textbf{N}$eural $\textbf{C}$ontroller (FESSNC) for $\textit{fast}$ learning controllers. Our framework is parameterized by neural networks, and realizing both rigorous exponential stability and safety guarantees. Concretely, we design heuristic methods to learn the exponentially stable and the safe controllers, respectively, in light of the classic stochastic exponential stability theory and our established theorem on guaranteeing the almost-sure safety for stochastic dynamics. More significantly, to rigorously ensure the stability and the safety guarantees for the learned controllers, we develop a projection operator, projecting to the space of exponentially-stable and safe controllers. To reduce the high computation cost of solving the projection operation, approximate projection operators are delicately proposed with closed forms that map the learned controllers to the target controller space. Furthermore, we employ Hutchinson's trace estimator for a scalable unbiased estimate of the Hessian matrix that is used in the projection operator, which thus allows for computation cost reduction and therefore can accelerate the training and testing processes. We empirically demonstrate the superiority of the FESSNC over the existing methods.

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