Jesse B. Hoagg
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About
Jesse B. Hoagg is a control systems researcher whose work centers on safety-critical control, with a particular focus on control barrier functions (CBFs) and their application to constrained dynamical systems. His research addresses one of the most pressing challenges in modern control theory: guaranteeing that autonomous systems remain within safe operating boundaries even when subject to real-world actuator limitations. Hoagg's most notable contributions involve the development of novel barrier function compositions — including soft-minimum and soft-maximum CBFs — that elegantly handle input constraints such as actuator limits within convex polytopic sets. These methods enable safety guarantees to be enforced through computationally efficient real-time optimization, including linear and quadratic programs, making them practically deployable in embedded systems. His 2024 work on time-varying soft-maximum CBFs extends this framework to unknown environments, where safety constraints must be updated dynamically as local perception data becomes available — a significant step toward safe autonomous navigation. Across his recent publications, Hoagg has accumulated citations reflecting growing community interest in his rigorous yet implementable approaches. For students and researchers working on autonomous vehicles, robotics, or any safety-critical cyber-physical system, Hoagg's body of work offers foundational tools for designing controllers that are both provably safe and practically feasible under realistic physical limitations.
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