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Scalable Zonotopic Under-approximation of Backward Reachable Sets for Uncertain Linear Systems

Systems and Control 2022-04-18 v3 Systems and Control

Abstract

Zonotopes are widely used for over-approximating forward reachable sets of uncertain linear systems for verification purposes. In this paper, we use zonotopes to achieve more scalable algorithms that under-approximate backward reachable sets of uncertain linear systems for control design. The main difference is that the backward reachability analysis is a two-player game and involves Minkowski difference operations, but zonotopes are not closed under such operations. We under-approximate this Minkowski difference with a zonotope, which can be obtained by solving a linear optimization problem. We further develop an efficient zonotope order reduction technique to bound the complexity of the obtained zonotopic under-approximations. The proposed approach is evaluated against existing approaches using randomly generated instances and illustrated with several examples.

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@article{arxiv.2107.01724,
  title  = {Scalable Zonotopic Under-approximation of Backward Reachable Sets for Uncertain Linear Systems},
  author = {Liren Yang and Necmiye Ozay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.01724},
  year   = {2022}
}
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