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From Optical Flow to Safety: Visual Safety Certification via Scale-Free Relative Motion
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arXiv:2610.21374v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safe autonomous navigation using monocular vision remains challenging because explicit obstacle states are not directly observable. This letter introduces a visual safety-certification paradigm that uses scale-free, depth-normalized relative motion encoded by monocular optical flow as the representation for collision-risk certification, without reconstructing obstacle position, velocity, geometry, or a metric world model. Unlike conventional optical-flow-based navigation approaches that rely on image motion to shape avoidance behavior, the proposed framework directly encodes collision-cone geometry and safety constraints in this relative-motion representation. An online Concurrent Learning observer estimates the normalized relative velocity and provides a computable estimation-error bound. This uncertainty is propagated into the collision cone through angular inflation and a monocular robot-footprint margin, yielding a Robust Vision-Based Collision Cone Control Barrier Function (RV-C$^3$BF). An optimal-decay CBF quadratic program minimally modifies the nominal control input to enforce the resulting robust safety constraint under the stated assumptions. Extensive simulation and real-world experiments on a TurtleBot3 in cluttered environments with static and dynamic obstacles demonstrate collision avoidance using only monocular vision and onboard proprioception, with the estimation-error bound containing the measured error in $98.3\%$ of simulation samples and the robot achieving collision-free navigation in $93$ of $100$ real-world trials.
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