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Publications

Thesis

Online Data-Driven Control of Safety-Critical Systems (May 2023)
Max H. Cohen
Boston University Ph.D. Thesis / bibTeX

Books

Adaptive and Learning-based Control of Safety-Critical Systems (Jun 2023)
Max H. Cohen and Calin Belta
Springer / bibTeX

Journal Articles

Activated Backstepping With Control Barrier Functions for the Safe Navigation of Automated Vehicles (Jun 2025)
Laszlo Gacsi, Max H. Cohen, and Tamas G. Molnar
IEEE Control Systems Letters / bibTeX

Rectified Control Barrier Functions for High-Order Safety Constraints (Dec 2024)
Pio Ong, Max H. Cohen, Tamas G. Molnar, and Aaron D. Ames
IEEE Control Systems Letters / arXiv / bibTeX

Constructive Safety-Critical Control: Synthesizing Control Barrier Functions for Partially Feedback Linearizable Systems (Jun 2024)
Max H. Cohen, Ryan K. Cosner, and Aaron D. Ames
IEEE Control Systems Letters / arXiv / video / bibTeX

Safety-Critical Control for Autonomous Systems: Control Barrier Functions via Reduced-Order Models (Mar 2024)
Max H. Cohen, Tamas G. Molnar, and Aaron D. Ames
Annual Reviews in Control / arXiv / bibTeX

Characterizing Smooth Safety Filters via the Implicit Function Theorem (Dec 2023)
Max H. Cohen, Pio Ong, Gilbert Bahati, and Aaron D. Ames
IEEE Control Systems Letters / arXiv / bibTeX

Temporal Logic Guided Safe Model-based Reinforcement Learning: A Hybrid Systems Approach (Feb 2023)
Max H. Cohen, Zachary Serlin, Kevin Leahy, and Calin Belta
Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems / bibTeX

Safe Exploration in Model-based Reinforcement Learning Using Control Barrier Functions (Jan 2023)
Max H. Cohen and Calin Belta
Automatica / arXiv / bibTeX

Peer Reviewed Conference Proceedings

Safety-Critical Controller Synthesis with Reduced-Order Models (Jul 2025)
Max H. Cohen, Noel Csomay-Shanklin, William D. Compton, Tamas G. Molnar, and Aaron D. Ames
American Control Conference / arXiv / video / bibTeX

Learning for Layered Safety-Critical Control with Predictive Control Barrier Functions (Jun 2025)
William D. Compton, Max H. Cohen, and Aaron D. Ames
Learning for Dynamics and Control / arXiv / video / bibTeX

Uncertainty Quantification for Recursive Estimation in Adaptive Safety-Critical Control (Jul 2024)
Max H. Cohen, Makai Mann, Kevin Leahy, and Calin Belta
American Control Conference / arXiv / bibTeX

Modular Adaptive Safety-Critical Control (May 2023)
Max H. Cohen and Calin Belta
American Control Conference / arXiv / bibTeX

Robust control barrier functions for nonlinear control systems with uncertainty: A duality-based approach (Dec 2022)
Max H. Cohen, Calin Belta, and Roberto Tron
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control / arXiv / bibTeX

High Order Robust Adaptive Control Barrier Functions and Exponentially Stabilizing Adaptive Control Lyapunov Functions (Jun 2022)
Max H. Cohen and Calin Belta
American Control Conference / arXiv / bibTeX

Model-based reinforcement learning for approximate optimal control with temporal logic specifications (May 2021)
Max H. Cohen and Calin Belta
International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control / arXiv / bibTeX

Approximate optimal control for safety-critical systems with control barrier functions (Dec 2020)
Max H. Cohen and Calin Belta
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control / arXiv / bibTeX

Cadence and position tracking for decoupled legs during switched split-crank motorized FES-cycling (Jul 2019)
F.I. Esquivel Estay, Courtney A. Rouse, Max H. Cohen, Christian A. Cousin, and Warren E. Dixon
American Control Conference / bibTeX

Preprints

Compatibility of Multiple Control Barrier Functions for Constrained Nonlinear Systems (Jul 2025)
Max H. Cohen, Eugene Lavretsky, and Aaron D. Ames
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control / bibTeX

On the Properties of Optimal-Decay Control Barrier Functions (Jul 2025)
Pio Ong, Max H. Cohen, Tamas G. Molnar, and Aaron D. Ames
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control / arXiv / bibTeX

A Layered Control Perspective on Legged Locomotion: Embedding Reduced Order Models via Hybrid Zero Dynamics (Jul 2025)
Sergio A. Esteban, Max H. Cohen, Adrian B. Ghansah, and Aaron D. Ames
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control / bibTeX

Control Barrier Function Synthesis for Nonlinear Systems with Dual Relative Degree (Apr 2025)
Gilbert Bahati, Ryan K. Cosner, Max H. Cohen, Ryan M. Bena, and Aaron D. Ames
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control / arXiv / video / bibTeX

A Contract Theory for Layered Control Architectures (Sep 2024)
Manuel Mazo Jr., William D. Compton, Max H. Cohen, and Aaron D. Ames
arXiv / bibTeX