Joseph Breeden

Joseph Breeden, Ph.D.

I am a PhD graduate from the University of Michigan. My research focuses on safety-critical control theory, with an emphasis on spacecraft applications and multi-agent systems. My research aims to make space systems more reliable, autonomous, and scalable. See highlights from my research below.

GitHub

https://github.com/jbreeden-um/phd-code

Papers

Breeden, J., "Constrained Control and Online Safety Filtering for Autonomous Space Systems", University of Michigan, Doctoral Disseration, 2024, doi: 10.7302/22843. https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/193198

Breeden, J., Zaccarian, L., and Panagou, D., "Robust Safety-Critical Control for Systems with Sporadic Measurements and Dwell Time Constraints", in IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 8, pp. 1415-1420, 2024, doi: 10.1109/LCSYS.2024.3410631. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10550919.

Garg, K., Usevitch, J., Breeden, J., Black, M., Agrawal, D., Parwana, H., and Panagou, D., "Advances in the Theory of Control Barrier Functions: Addressing practical challenges in safe control synthesis for autonomous and robotic systems", in Annual Reviews in Control, vol. 57, no. 100945, 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.arcontrol.2024.100945. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1367578824000142.

Breeden, J., and Panagou, D., "Safety-Critical Control for Systems with Impulsive Actuators and Dwell Time Constraints", in IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 7, pp. 2119-2124, 2023, doi: 10.1109/LCSYS.2023.3285141. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10148055. Slides.

Breeden, J., and Panagou, D., "Autonomous Spacecraft Attitude Reorientation Using Control Barrier Functions", in Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, vol. 46, iss. 10, pp. 1874-1891, 2023, doi: 10.2514/1.G007456. https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.G007456.

Breeden, J., and Panagou, D., "Compositions of Multiple Control Barrier Functions Under Input Constraints", 2023 American Control Conference, San Diego, CA, USA, 2023, pp. 3688-3695, doi: 10.23919/ACC55779.2023. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10156625. Slides.

Breeden, J., and Panagou, D., "Robust Control Barrier Functions under Input Constraints and Disturbances for Satellite Trajectories", in Automatica, vol. 155, no. 111109, 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.automatica.2023.111109. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005109823002698.

Breeden, J., and Panagou, D., "Predictive Control Barrier Functions for Online Safety Critical Control", 2022 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, 2022, pp. 924-931, doi: 10.1109/CDC51059.2022.9992926. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9992926. Presentation. Slides PPTX. Slides PDF. Recipient of an IEEE Constrol Systems Society CDC 2022 Outstanding Student Paper Award.

Breeden, J., and Panagou, D., "Guaranteed Safe Spacecraft Docking with Control Barrier Functions", in IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, pp. 2000-2005, 2022, doi: 10.1109/LCSYS.2021.3136813. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9656550. Presentation. Slides.

Breeden, J., Garg, K., and Panagou, D., "Control Barrier Functions in Sampled-Data Systems", in IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, pp. 367-372, 2022, doi: 10.1109/LCSYS.2021.3076127. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9417092. Presentation. Slides.

Breeden, J., and Panagou, D., "High Relative Degree Control Barrier Functions Under Input Constraints", 2021 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Austin, TX, USA, 2021, pp. 6119-6124, doi: 10.1109/CDC45484.2021.9683705. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9683705. Presentation. Slides. Recipient of the IEEE Technical Committee on Aerospace Control 2021 Outstanding Student Paper Award.

Breeden, J., and Panagou, D., "Quadratic Programs for High Relative Degree Spatial Constraints and Spatiotemporal Specifications with Spacecraft Applications", 2020 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Jeju, Korea, 2020, pp. 1496-1502, doi: 10.1109/CDC42340.2020.9304162. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9304162. Presentation. Slides.

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