Mitchell Black

Mitchell Black
Mitchell Black

Role: PhD Aerospace (2020 - 2023)

Now: Technical Staff @ MIT Lincoln Lab

PhD Thesis: Toward Safe Control under Uncertainty: Adaptation and Prediction for Control Barrier Functions

Papers

Advances in the Theory of Control Barrier Functions: Addressing practical challenges in safe control synthesis for autonomous and robotic systems
Advances in the Theory of Control Barrier Functions: Addressing practical challenges in safe control synthesis for autonomous and robotic systems

Annual Reviews in Control 2024

@article{garg2024advances,
  title={Advances in the Theory of Control Barrier Functions: Addressing practical challenges in safe control synthesis for autonomous and robotic systems},
  author={Garg, Kunal and Usevitch, James and Breeden, Joseph and Black, Mitchell and Agrawal, Devansh and Parwana, Hardik and Panagou, Dimitra},
  journal={Annual Reviews in Control},
  volume={57},
  pages={100945},
  year={2024},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}
Risk-Aware Fixed-Time Stabilization of Stochastic Systems Under Measurement Uncertainty
Mitchell Black Georgios Fainekos Bardh Hoxha Dimitra Panagou

ACC 2024

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/amcc/BlackFHP24,
  author       = {Mitchell Black and
                  Georgios Fainekos and
                  Bardh Hoxha and
                  Dimitra Panagou},
  title        = {Risk-Aware Fixed-Time Stabilization of Stochastic Systems Under Measurement
                  Uncertainty},
  booktitle    = {American Control Conference, {ACC} 2024, Toronto, ON, Canada, July
                  10-12, 2024},
  pages        = {3276--3283},
  publisher    = {{IEEE}},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.23919/ACC60939.2024.10644792},
  doi          = {10.23919/ACC60939.2024.10644792},
  timestamp    = {Sat, 21 Sep 2024 12:19:37 +0200},
  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/amcc/BlackFHP24.bib},
  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}
Adaptation for Validation of Consolidated Control Barrier Functions.

CDC

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/cdc/BlackP23,
  author       = {Mitchell Black and
                  Dimitra Panagou},
  title        = {Adaptation for Validation of Consolidated Control Barrier Functions},
  booktitle    = {62nd {IEEE} Conference on Decision and Control, {CDC} 2023, Singapore,
                  December 13-15, 2023},
  pages        = {751--757},
  publisher    = {{IEEE}},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC49753.2023.10383597},
  doi          = {10.1109/CDC49753.2023.10383597},
  timestamp    = {Mon, 29 Jan 2024 17:31:54 +0100},
  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/cdc/BlackP23.bib},
  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}
Future-Focused Control Barrier Functions for Autonomous Vehicle Control.
Mitchell Black Mrdjan Jankovic Abhishek Sharma Dimitra Panagou

ACC

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/amcc/BlackJSP23,
  author       = {Mitchell Black and
                  Mrdjan Jankovic and
                  Abhishek Sharma and
                  Dimitra Panagou},
  title        = {Future-Focused Control Barrier Functions for Autonomous Vehicle Control},
  booktitle    = {American Control Conference, {ACC} 2023, San Diego, CA, USA, May 31
                  - June 2, 2023},
  pages        = {3324--3331},
  publisher    = {{IEEE}},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10156163},
  doi          = {10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10156163},
  timestamp    = {Tue, 11 Jul 2023 16:44:32 +0200},
  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/amcc/BlackJSP23.bib},
  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}
Safety Under Uncertainty: Tight Bounds with Risk-Aware Control Barrier Functions.
Mitchell Black Georgios Fainekos Bardh Hoxha Danil V. Prokhorov Dimitra Panagou

ICRA

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/icra/BlackFHPP23,
  author       = {Mitchell Black and
                  Georgios Fainekos and
                  Bardh Hoxha and
                  Danil V. Prokhorov and
                  Dimitra Panagou},
  title        = {Safety Under Uncertainty: Tight Bounds with Risk-Aware Control Barrier
                  Functions},
  booktitle    = {{IEEE} International Conference on Robotics and Automation, {ICRA}
                  2023, London, UK, May 29 - June 2, 2023},
  pages        = {12686--12692},
  publisher    = {{IEEE}},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10161379},
  doi          = {10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10161379},
  timestamp    = {Sun, 06 Oct 2024 21:06:22 +0200},
  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/icra/BlackFHPP23.bib},
  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}
A Fixed-Time Stable Adaptation Law for Safety-Critical Control under Parametric Uncertainty.

ECC

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/eucc/BlackAP21,
  author       = {Mitchell Black and
                  Ehsan Arabi and
                  Dimitra Panagou},
  title        = {A Fixed-Time Stable Adaptation Law for Safety-Critical Control under
                  Parametric Uncertainty},
  booktitle    = {2021 European Control Conference, {ECC} 2021, Virtual Event / Delft,
                  The Netherlands, June 29 - July 2, 2021},
  pages        = {1328--1333},
  publisher    = {{IEEE}},
  year         = {2021},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.23919/ECC54610.2021.9655080},
  doi          = {10.23919/ECC54610.2021.9655080},
  timestamp    = {Thu, 31 Mar 2022 11:10:43 +0200},
  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/eucc/BlackAP21.bib},
  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}
A Quadratic Program based Control Synthesis under Spatiotemporal Constraints and Non-vanishing Disturbances.

CDC

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/cdc/BlackGP20,
  author       = {Mitchell Black and
                  Kunal Garg and
                  Dimitra Panagou},
  title        = {A Quadratic Program based Control Synthesis under Spatiotemporal Constraints
                  and Non-vanishing Disturbances},
  booktitle    = {59th {IEEE} Conference on Decision and Control, {CDC} 2020, Jeju Island,
                  South Korea, December 14-18, 2020},
  pages        = {2726--2731},
  publisher    = {{IEEE}},
  year         = {2020},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC42340.2020.9304071},
  doi          = {10.1109/CDC42340.2020.9304071},
  timestamp    = {Fri, 04 Mar 2022 13:31:02 +0100},
  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/cdc/BlackGP20.bib},
  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}