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Semidefinite Outer Approximation of the Backward Reachable Set of Discrete-time Autonomous Polynomial Systems

Systems and Control 2018-07-27 v2 Robotics Optimization and Control

Abstract

We approximate the backward reachable set of discrete-time autonomous polynomial systems using the recently developed occupation measure approach. We formulate the problem as an infinite-dimensional linear programming (LP) problem on measures and its dual on continuous functions. Then we approximate the LP by a hierarchy of finite-dimensional semidefinite programming (SDP) programs on moments of measures and their duals on sums-of-squares polynomials. Finally we solve the SDP's and obtain a sequence of outer approximations of the backward reachable set. We demonstrate our approach on three dynamical systems. As a special case, we also show how to approximate the preimage of a compact semi-algebraic set under a polynomial map.

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@article{arxiv.1803.07725,
  title  = {Semidefinite Outer Approximation of the Backward Reachable Set of Discrete-time Autonomous Polynomial Systems},
  author = {Weiqiao Han and Russ Tedrake},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.07725},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

merged with the paper arXiv:1803.09022