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This paper over-approximates the reachable sets of a continuous-time uncertain system using the sensitivity of its trajectories with respect to initial conditions and uncertain parameters. We first prove the equivalence between an existing…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Pierre-Jean Meyer , Samuel Coogan , Murat Arcak

Markov decision processes model systems subject to nondeterministic and probabilistic uncertainty. A plethora of verification techniques addresses variations of reachability properties, such as: Is there a scheduler resolving the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Lina Gerlach , Tobias Winkler , Erika Ábrahám , Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Sebastian Junges

We study timed systems in which some timing features are unknown parameters. Parametric timed automata (PTAs) are a classical formalism for such systems but for which most interesting problems are undecidable. Notably, the parametric…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Étienne André , Didier Lime , Olivier H. Roux

We propose an approach to compute inner and outer-approximations of the sets of values satisfying constraints expressed as arbitrarily quantified formulas. Such formulas arise for instance when specifying important problems in control such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 Eric Goubault , Sylvie Putot

This paper proposes a method to compute finite abstractions that can be used for synthesizing robust hybrid control strategies for nonlinear systems. Most existing methods for computing finite abstractions utilize some global, analytical…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Yinan Li , Jun Liu , Necmiye Ozay

In this work, we present a numerical optimal control framework for reachable set computation using \emph{normotopes}, a new set representation as a norm ball with a shaping matrix. In reachable set computations, we expect to continuously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Akash Harapanahalli , Samuel Coogan

Reachability analysis is a powerful tool for computing the set of states or outputs reachable for a system. While previous work has focused on systems described by state-space models, we present the first methods to compute reachable sets…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-29 Laura Lützow , Matthias Althoff

Timed pushdown automata (TPDA) are an expressive formalism combining recursion with a rich logic of timing constraints. We prove that reachability relations of TPDA are expressible in linear arithmetic, a rich logic generalising Presburger…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Lorenzo Clemente , Sławomir Lasota

This article presents the complexity of reachability decision problems for parametric Markov decision processes (pMDPs), an extension to Markov decision processes (MDPs) where transitions probabilities are described by polynomials over a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Sebastian Junges , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Guillermo A. Pérez , Tobias Winkler

Learning-enabled planning and control algorithms are increasingly popular, but they often lack rigorous guarantees of performance or safety. We introduce an algorithm for computing underapproximate backward reachable sets of nonlinear…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Chelsea Sidrane , Jana Tumova

This paper shows how to harness existing theorem provers for first-order logic to automatically verify safety properties of imperative programs that perform dynamic storage allocation and destructive updating of pointer-valued structure…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Tal Lev-Ami , Neil Immerman , Thomas Reps , Mooly Sagiv , Siddharth Srivastava , Greta Yorsh

Approximating the set of reachable states of a dynamical system is an algorithmic yet mathematically rigorous way to reason about its safety. Although progress has been made in the development of efficient algorithms for affine dynamical…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Sergiy Bogomolov , Marcelo Forets , Goran Frehse , Andreas Podelski , Christian Schilling , Frédéric Viry

We study the computation of lower and upper probabilities of hitting a target set of states for imprecise Markov chains, where transition uncertainty is modelled by a convex set of transition matrices. In the precise case, hitting…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Marco Sangalli , Erik Quaeghebeur , Thomas Krak

We investigate the problem of parameter synthesis for time Petri nets with a cost variable that evolves both continuously with time, and discretely when firing transitions. More precisely, parameters are rational symbolic constants used for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Didier Lime , Olivier H. Roux , Charlotte Seidner

As neural networks (NNs) become more prevalent in safety-critical applications such as control of vehicles, there is a growing need to certify that systems with NN components are safe. This paper presents a set of backward reachability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Nicholas Rober , Sydney M. Katz , Chelsea Sidrane , Esen Yel , Michael Everett , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Jonathan P. How

We approach the 3-SAT satisfiability problem with the quantum-inspired method of imaginary time propagation (ITP) applied to matrix product states (MPS) on a classical computer. This ansatz is fundamentally limited by a quantum entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Tim Pokart , Frank Pollmann , Jan Carl Budich

Reachability analysis is a formal method to guarantee safety of dynamical systems under the influence of uncertainties. A substantial bottleneck of all reachability algorithms is the necessity to adequately tune specific algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Mark Wetzlinger , Niklas Kochdumper , Stanley Bak , Matthias Althoff

Ensuring the correctness of critical real-time systems, involving concurrent behaviours and timing requirements, is crucial. Timed automata extend finite-state automata with clocks, compared in guards and invariants with integer constants.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Étienne André , Didier Lime , Olivier H. Roux

Under-approximations of reachable sets and tubes have been receiving growing research attention due to their important roles in control synthesis and verification. Available under-approximation methods applicable to continuous-time linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-15 Mohamed Serry , Jun Liu

We study the problem of grammar-constrained context-free language reachability in graphs, focusing on complexity and empirical performance. We present an algorithmic framework for evaluating reachability queries constrained by context-free…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Faruk Alpay , Levent Sarioglu