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  1. Brain-SAD: A Brain-Inspired Safe Autonomous Driving Control Framework with Dynamic Fear-Oriented Constraint on Dual-Policy

    Sep 29, 2026Huan Rong, Chao Yin, Anouar Imel +2Safety ConstraintsCollision Avoidance

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Jiangsu, Nanjing, 210-044, China · School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Sichuan, Chengdu, 611731, China · School of Software, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, 210044, Jiangsu, China +1

  2. Safe Greenhouse Climate Control Using Lagrangian-Constrained PPO with Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

    Sep 28, 2026Hangzun Liu, Yuling Fan, Fang Tian +3Reinforcement Learning ControlSafety Constraints

    College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China · Yunnan Modern Agricultural Industry Research Institute Co., Ltd.,Kunming, Yunnan 650000, China · College of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China +1

  3. Safe Score Matching: Diffusion Policies with Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability for Online Safe Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 27, 2026Boyang Li, Matthew Kim, Sylvia Lee HerbertHamilton-Jacobi ReachabilitySafety Constraints

    University of California San Diego

  4. Coding Agents with an Obstacle-Aware Harness for Safe Robot Manipulation

    Sep 17, 2026Bingxin Xu, Yuzhang Shang, Zhen Dong +1Robotic ManipulationObstacle Avoidance

    USC · UCF · UCSB

  5. Absence is Presence: Understanding Visual Scene Negative Events Under Safety Cognitive Constraint

    Sep 17, 2026Zhiyun Jiang, Hanyong Wang, Binbin Liang +3Image Difference CaptioningNegative Results

    Sichuan University, Chengdu, China · Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

  6. CALOS: Control-Affine Lyapunov On-manifold Safety Layer for Safe Deep Reinforcement Learning for Quadrotors

    Sep 15, 2026Fabrizio Cesareo, Sebastiano Mengozzi, Nicola Mimmo +1QuadrotorReinforcement Learning Control

    Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi” — DEI University of Bologna, Italy

  7. Safe Meta-Reinforcement Learning via Information Space Reachability

    Sep 14, 2026Zeyang Li, Sunbochen Tang, Navid AzizanSafety ConstraintsOffline Reinforcement Learning

    Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

  8. Exact Feasibility Certification and Optimal Responsibility Allocation for Multi-Robot CBF Safety Filters

    Sep 14, 2026Chandan Kumar Sah, Jishnu KeshavanControl Barrier FunctionsSafety Filters

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560012, India

  9. Safety-aware Skill Adaptation for Reinforcement Learning in Dynamic Environments

    Sep 11, 2026A K M Nadimul Haque, Sheila Sutjipto, Marc G. Carmichael +1Obstacle AvoidanceSafety Constraints

    Robotics Institute, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

  10. ActSafeGuard: Differentiable and Training-Aligned Constraint Enforcement for Flow-Matching Policies

    Sep 10, 2026Jianming Ma, Rongjun Jin, Xiaxi Si +3Safety ConstraintsSafer

    1Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2Shanghai Innovation Institute

  11. Graph-Based Safe Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Systems with Time-Varying Topology

    Sep 8, 2026Xiao Sizhe, Dong Lijing, Bai Rui +1Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningSafety Constraints

    School of Mechanical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

  12. Proactive Context-Forecasted Safety Constraints for Nonstationary Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 8, 2026Tim TomashevskiySafety ConstraintsNon-Stationarity

    Department of Computing and Software McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  13. SCoCaT: Success Conditioned Constrained Reinforcement Learning for Spacecraft Docking

    Sep 5, 2026Aman Arora, Ricard Marsal I Castan, Matteo El-Hariry +1Safety ConstraintsSpacecraft

    SnT - Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

  14. Dual Stress: Runtime Safety Monitoring for Safety-Constrained MPC Navigation

    Aug 11, 2026Jamil Chahine, Wenqi Cai, John Abanes +1Safety ConstraintsModel Predictive Control

    Department of Mechanical Engineering American University of Beirut (AUB) Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon · Robotics and Intelligent Systems Control Laboratory New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Abu Dhabi, UAE · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering New York University New York, NY, USA +1

  15. Boundary-Seeking Policy Gradient for Safe Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 10, 2026Chenhua Fan, Jiahui Zhu, Yuhang Zhang +1Policy GradientSafety Constraints

    School of EECS, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99163, USA

  16. Navigating the Proximity-Safety Balance: Constraint Decomposition for Human Following in Pedestrian Crowds

    Aug 10, 2026Shiting Gong, Jianpeng Yao, Jinfeng Wang +2Safety ConstraintsPedestrian

    University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA · University of California, Riverside, CA, USA · 3Stanford University, CA, USA +2

  17. Verication-driven closed-loop multi-agent large language modelframework for code-compliant structural design

    Aug 8, 2026Jianbin Luo, Weibin Lin, Yiran Lin +2Code QualityMulti-Agent Large Language Model Systems

    College of Civil Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350108, China

  18. Optimal Constrained sc-LTL Planning in MDPs via Switching Policies

    Aug 5, 2026Zetong Xuan, Yu WangLinear Temporal LogicsMarkov Decision Processes

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA

  19. Shielding for Higher-Order Safety

    Aug 4, 2026Filip Cano, Thomas A. Henzinger, Konstantin KueffnerSafety ConstraintsCyber-Physical System

    Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria

  20. HetGPS: Scalable Graph Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Physics-Anchored Adaptive Safety for EV Charging

    Aug 1, 2026Xiangwei Wang, Nanduni Nimalsiri, Yu Xia +2Electric VehiclesSafety Constraints

    The University of Melbourne, Australia · CSIRO, Australia · Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

  21. The Off-Support Barrier: Why Semantic Safety Constraints Are Not Learning-Problem Invariants, and What Follows for Prior Design, Containment, and Verification

    Aug 1, 2026Yoshinori WatanabeSafety ConstraintsBarriers

  22. Safety-Gated Agentic Supervisory Control on a Coupled Distillation Benchmark: Regime Map, Auditable Gate, and Co-Design Findings

    Jul 30, 2026Christian RosenthalSafety ConstraintsArtificial Intelligence Control

    Sole author — independent research, industrial AI methodology

  23. Constrained Reinforcement Learning Using Successor Representations

    Jul 27, 2026Michael Girstl, Alexander Mattick, Christopher MutschlerSafety ConstraintsSuccessor Representations

    Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt) · Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.AI) · Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Fraunhofer IIS +1

  24. Adjustment Speed as a Safety Constraint for Nonstationary Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 21, 2026Timothy TomashevskiySafety ConstraintsOffline Reinforcement Learning

    Department of Computing and Software McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  25. Motion Planning with Model-Based Diffusion via Constraint Optimization and Adaptive Scheduling

    Jul 16, 2026Zhilin He, Bowei Li, Jianlin Dou +2Motion PlanningMulti-Robot Motion Planning

    Carnegie Mellon University · University of Pennsylvania

  26. nuTruck: Benchmarking Autonomous Driving Planning for Distributed Electric-drive Trucks

    Jul 15, 2026Jinyu Miao, Pu Zhang, Yifei He +5Autonomous DrivingElectric Vehicles

    School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · KargoBot.AI Inc., Beijing, China

  27. Directional Constraints for Efficient Exploration in Safe Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 14, 2026Paolo Magliano, Puze Liu, Jan Peters +2Safety ConstraintsOffline Reinforcement Learning

    Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy · Tongji University, Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems · German Research Center for AI (DFKI) +3

  28. Input-Constrained Spatiotemporal Tubes for Safe Navigation of Unknown Euler-Lagrange Systems in Dynamic Environments

    Jul 9, 2026Siddhartha Upadhyay, Ratnangshu Das, Pushpak JagtapSpatiotemporal TubeActuator

    Department of Cyber-Physical Systems Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India · Department of Cyber-Physical Systems Indian Institute of Science„ Bengaluru, India

  29. Safe Reinforcement Learning using Ideas from Model Predictive Control

    Jul 8, 2026Georg Schäfer, Jakob Rehrl, Stefan Huber +1Safety ConstraintsReinforcement Learning Control

    Josef Ressel Centre for Intelligent and Secure Industrial Automation, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Salzburg, Austria · Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

  30. Learning Spatiotemporal Tubes for Full Class of Signal Temporal Logic Tasks for Control of Unknown Systems under Input Constraints

    Jul 8, 2026Ahan Basu, Ratnangshu Das, Soumyodipta Nath +2Spatiotemporal TubeLagrangian Methods

    Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India · Electrical Engineering Department, Eindhoven Institute of Technology, Netherlands

  31. Safe Bayesian Optimization with Counterfactual Policies

    Jul 6, 2026Katherine Avery, Bruno Castro da Silva, David JensenBayesian OptimizationSafety Constraints

    College of Computer Science University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst, MA 01002

  32. Integrating Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Safe Reinforcement Learning in a 1-DoF Helicopter System

    Jul 3, 2026Georg Schäfer, Jakob Rehrl, Stefan HuberSafety ConstraintsProximal Policy Optimization

    Josef Ressel Centre for Intelligent and Secure Industrial Automation, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Salzburg, Austria · Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

  33. Continuous-Time Gaussian Belief Trees for Motion Planning

    Jul 3, 2026Rayan Mazouz, Qi Heng Ho, Zachary N. Sunberg +1Motion PlanningSafety Constraints

    Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA · Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

  34. NeHMO: Neural Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability Learning for Decentralized Safe Multi-Arm Motion Planning

    Jul 1, 2026Qingyi Chen, Zachary Kingston, Ahmed H. QureshiRobot PlanningHamilton-Jacobi Reachability

    Department of Computer Science at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

  35. Safe Online Learning via Smooth Safety-Structured Policy Composition

    Jun 30, 2026Hongpeng Cao, Liqun Zhao, Yuliang Gu +3Safety ConstraintsSafer

    School of Engineering and Design Technical University of Munich Garching, Munich 85748, Germany · Department of Engineering Science University of Oxford Oxford OX1 3PJ, United Kingdom · Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801, USA +1

  36. ShardNet: Training Neural Controllers with Hard, Non-Convex Constraints

    Jun 29, 2026Long Kiu Chung, Shreyas KousikSafety ConstraintsLearning-Based Control

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.

  37. Lateral String Stability for Vehicle Platoons

    Jun 29, 2026Sixu Li, Swaroop Darbha, Yang ZhouCollision AvoidanceSafety Constraints

    Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77483, USA

  38. PPO-EAL: Exact Augmented Lagrangian Proximal Policy Optimization for Safe Robotic Control

    Jun 26, 2026Jiatao Ding, Songqun Gao, Andrea Del Prete +1Safety ConstraintsProximal Policy Optimization

    Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento, Via Sommarive 9, 38123, Trento, Italy

  39. Safe and Generalizable Hierarchical Multi-Agent RL via Constraint Manifold Control

    Jun 22, 2026Zihao Guo, Jianing Zhao, Ling Li +3Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningSafety Constraints

    1King’s College London · University of California, Berkeley · 3The Alan Turing Institute

  40. Imagine to Ensure Safety in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 21, 2026Gregory Gorbov, Artem Latyshev, Aleksandr I. PanovHierarchical Reinforcement LearningSafety Constraints

    Moscow Independent Research Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Moscow 141701, Russia · FRC Computer Science RAS, Moscow 119333, Russia · Cognitive AI Systems Lab, Moscow 117312, Russia

  41. CRAX: Fast Safe Reinforcement Learning Benchmarking

    Jun 18, 2026Tristan Tomilin, Mourad Boustani, Mickey Beurskens +2Safety ConstraintsAutonomous Driving

    Eindhoven University of Technology

  42. TRIDENT: Breaking the Hybrid-Safety-Physics Coupling for Provably Safe Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 16, 2026Zijie Meng, Ziwei Li, Yufei Liu +5Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningSafety Constraints

    Peking University · National Taiwan University · WHU +1

  43. Distributed Safe Consensus Under Asymmetric Input and Time-Varying Output Constraints

    Jun 15, 2026Abhinav Sinha, Shashi Ranjan KumarSafety ConstraintsActuator

    Guidance, Autonomy, Learning, and Control for Intelligent Systems (GALACxIS) Lab, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA · Intelligent Systems and Control (ISaC) Lab, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, India

  44. Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability-Based Safe Reinforcement Learning for Emergency Collision Avoidance

    Jun 13, 2026Yuhong Jiang, Shiyue Zhao, Junzhi Zhang +4Hamilton-Jacobi ReachabilityCollision Avoidance

    School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Green Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  45. CSPO: Constraint-Sensitive Policy Optimization for Safe Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 12, 2026Ayoub Belouadah, Sylvain Kubler, Yves Le TraonSafety Constraints

    SnT, University of Luxembourg

  46. Utility-Constrained Policy Optimization

    Jun 12, 2026Mehrdad Moghimi, Bernardo Avila PiresSafety ConstraintsMarkov Decision Processes

    York University Toronto, Canada · Google DeepMind London, United Kingdom

  47. Seeing Before Colliding: Anticipatory Safe RL with Frozen Vision-Language Models

    Jun 9, 2026Samuel Tetteh, Cody FlemingSafety ConstraintsTrajectory-Level Credit

    Iowa State University Ames, Iowa, USA

  48. PACT: Self-Evolving Physical Safety Alignment for Diffusion Policies in Embodied Manipulation

    Jun 7, 2026Lingxuan Wu, Zijian Zhu, Lizhong Wang +5Diffusion PoliciesSafety Constraints

    Dept. of Comp. Sci. and Tech., Institute for AI, Tsinghua-Bosch Joint ML Center, THBI Lab, BNRist Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China · Peng Cheng Laboratory, 518108, China

  49. Scenario Generation for Risk-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Probably Approximately Safe Guarantees

    Jun 3, 2026Mohit Prashant, Arvind EaswaranReinforcement Learning With Verifiable RewardSafety Constraints

    Nanyang Technological University

  50. COP-Q: Safety-First Reinforcement Learning for Robot Control via Cholesky-Ordered Projection

    Jun 3, 2026Guopeng Li, Moritz A. Zanger, Matthijs T. J. Spaan +1Safety ConstraintsQ-Learning

    Department of Cognitive Robotics, Delft University of Technology · School of Transportation, Southeast University, China · Department of Intelligent Systems, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

  51. Safety-Critical Whole-Body Control for Humanoid Robots via Input-to-State Safe Control Barrier Functions

    May 25, 2026Kwanwoo Lee, Sanghyuk Park, Gyeongjae Park +2Whole-Body ControlControl Barrier Functions

    Department of Intelligence and Information, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea · Robotics Lab, Hyundai Motor Group, Republic of Korea · Advanced Institute of Convergence Technology, Republic of Korea +1

  52. Sampling-Based Safe Reinforcement Learning

    May 19, 2026Luca Vignola, Bruce D. Lee, Manish Prajapat +4Safety ConstraintsEfficient Exploration

    ETH Zurich

  53. Auditing Agent Harness Safety

    May 14, 2026Chengzhi Liu, Yichen Guo, Yepeng Liu +8Agent HarnessModel Auditing

    University of California, Santa Barbara · University of California, Berkeley · Microsoft Research +2

  54. Action-Conditioned Risk Gating for Safety-Critical Control under Partial Observability

    May 14, 2026Yushen Liu, Yin-Jen Chen, Ziyi Chen +4Partially Observable Markov Decision ProcessSafety Constraints

    University of Virginia · Google · University of Maryland, College Park +3

  55. Safety-Constrained Reinforcement Learning with Post-Training Reachability Verification for Robot Navigation

    May 13, 2026Qisong He, Xinmiao Huang, Jinwei Hu +4Safety ConstraintsRobot Navigation

    University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. · Universit´e Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.

  56. Safe Continual Reinforcement Learning under Nonstationarity via Adaptive Safety Constraints

    May 13, 2026Timofey TomashevskiySafety ConstraintsOffline Reinforcement Learning

    McMaster Centre for Software Certification Department of Computing and Software McMaster University, Canada

  57. From Cumulative Constraints to Adaptive Runtime Safety Control for Nonstationary Reinforcement Learning

    May 13, 2026Timofey TomashevskiySafety ConstraintsReinforcement Learning Control

    McMaster Centre for Software Certification Department of Computing and Software McMaster University, Canada

  58. SafeManip: A Property-Driven Benchmark for Temporal Safety Evaluation in Robotic Manipulation

    May 12, 2026Chengyue Huang, Khang Vo Huynh, Mellon M. Zhang +3Robotic ManipulationSafety Claims

    Department of Machine Learning, Georgia Institute of Technology · Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia

  59. Safe Multi-Agent Behavior Must Be Maintained, Not Merely Asserted: Constraint Drift in LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems

    May 11, 2026Tianxiao Li, Yixing Ma, Haiquan Wen +4Safety ConstraintsSystemverilog Assertions

    University of Liverpool, UK · University of Nottingham, UK · University of Tokyo, Japan +1

  60. Mismatch-Aware Adaptive Constraint Tightening for Bicycle-Model Trajectory Optimization

    May 10, 2026Lingxue Lyu, Zihui LiuVehicle DynamicsRobust Trajectory

    School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA · Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA