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Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions

As of 11 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 20 of 20 outbound references and 1 inbound Pith citation observation for arXiv:2603.06954.

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Observation 3dd05d3c-468b-4dc2-a3d6-a52ec0f8ee63 · outbound

This paper cites Control Barrier Functions: Theory and Applications,.

Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions Control Barrier Functions: Theory and Applications,

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This paper cites Reformulations of Quadratic Programs for Lipschitz Continuity,.

Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions Reformulations of Quadratic Programs for Lipschitz Continuity,

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This paper cites How to Adapt Control Barrier Functions? A Learning-Based Approach with Applications to a VTOL Quadplane,.

Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions How to Adapt Control Barrier Functions? A Learning-Based Approach with Applications to a VTOL Quadplane,

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This paper cites Safe Learning in Robotics: From Learning-Based Control to Safe Reinforcement Learning,.

Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions Safe Learning in Robotics: From Learning-Based Control to Safe Reinforcement Learning,

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This paper cites Borrelli, A.

Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions Borrelli, A

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This paper cites A general Hamilton- Jacobi framework for non-linear state-constrained control problems,.

Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions A general Hamilton- Jacobi framework for non-linear state-constrained control problems,

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This paper cites Robust Control Barrier–Value Functions for Safety-Critical Control,.

Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions Robust Control Barrier–Value Functions for Safety-Critical Control,

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This paper cites Semidefinite programming relaxations for semialgebraic problems,.

Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions Semidefinite programming relaxations for semialgebraic problems,

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This paper cites Correctness Guarantees for the Composition of Lane Keeping and Adaptive Cruise Control,.

Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions Correctness Guarantees for the Composition of Lane Keeping and Adaptive Cruise Control,

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This paper cites Rate-Tunable Control Barrier Functions: Methods and Algorithms for Online Adaptation,.

Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions Rate-Tunable Control Barrier Functions: Methods and Algorithms for Online Adaptation,

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Observation f943ccec-1794-45f9-9065-4e03a618d65a · outbound

This paper cites Learning to Refine Input Constrained Control Barrier Functions via Uncertainty-Aware Online Parameter Adaptation,.

Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions Learning to Refine Input Constrained Control Barrier Functions via Uncertainty-Aware Online Parameter Adaptation,

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This paper cites Beyond Collision Cones: Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance for Nonholonomic Robots via Dynamic Parabolic Control Barrier Functions,.

Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions Beyond Collision Cones: Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance for Nonholonomic Robots via Dynamic Parabolic Control Barrier Functions,

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This paper cites Visibility-Aware RRT* for Safety-Critical Navigation of Perception-Limited Robots in Unknown Environments,.

Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions Visibility-Aware RRT* for Safety-Critical Navigation of Perception-Limited Robots in Unknown Environments,

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This paper cites Safe Trajectories for Autonomous Ren- dezvous of Spacecraft,.

Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions Safe Trajectories for Autonomous Ren- dezvous of Spacecraft,

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Observation 9b2ddef7-46b9-4a83-8568-62eb8ff1d57f · outbound

This paper cites A Sampling Based Approach to Spacecraft Autonomous Maneuvering with Safety Spec- ifications,.

Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions A Sampling Based Approach to Spacecraft Autonomous Maneuvering with Safety Spec- ifications,

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This paper cites Comparative Analysis of Control Barrier Functions and Artificial Potential Fields for Obstacle Avoidance,.

Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions Comparative Analysis of Control Barrier Functions and Artificial Potential Fields for Obstacle Avoidance,

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Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions Control Barrier Functions for Systems with High Relative Degree,

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This paper cites Safe Control Synthesis via Input Constrained Control Barrier Functions,.

Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions Safe Control Synthesis via Input Constrained Control Barrier Functions,

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Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions Discrete-Time Control Barrier Function: High-Order Case and Adaptive Case,

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This paper cites CVXPY: A Python-Embedded Modeling Language for Convex Optimization,.

Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions CVXPY: A Python-Embedded Modeling Language for Convex Optimization,

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Any-Body Guard: Universal Safeguarding for Manipulation Policies via Action Masking cites this paper.

Any-Body Guard: Universal Safeguarding for Manipulation Policies via Action Masking Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions

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