Integral Control Barrier Functions for Dynamically Defined Control Laws

Abstract

This letter introduces integral control barrier functions (I-CBFs) as a means to enable the safety-critical integral control of nonlinear systems. Importantly, I-CBFs allow for the holistic encoding of both state constraints and input bounds in a single framework. We demonstrate this by applying them to a dynamically defined tracking controller, thereby enforcing safety in state and input through a minimally invasive I-CBF controller framed as a quadratic program.