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Autonomous systems like aircraft and assistive robots often operate in scenarios where guaranteeing safety is critical. Methods like Hamilton-Jacobi reachability can provide guaranteed safe sets and controllers for such systems. However,…

Provably safe and scalable multi-vehicle trajectory planning is an important and urgent problem. Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability is an ideal tool for analyzing such safety-critical systems and has been successfully applied to several…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Somil Bansal , Mo Chen , Claire J. Tomlin

Autonomous systems operating in close proximity with each other to cover a specified area has many potential applications, but to achieve effective coordination, two key challenges need to be addressed: coordination and safety. For…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-18 Juan Chacon , Mo Chen , Razvan C. Fetecau

Autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) must navigate safely in cluttered environments while accounting for complex dynamics and environmental uncertainty. Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability (HJR) offers formal safety guarantees through the computation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Granthik Halder , Rudrashis Majumder , Rakshith M R , Rahi Shah , Suresh Sundaram

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis is an important formal verification method for guaranteeing performance and safety properties of dynamical systems; it has been applied to many small-scale systems in the past decade. Its…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Somil Bansal , Mo Chen , Sylvia Herbert , Claire J. Tomlin

In this paper, we propose a reachable set based collision avoidance algorithm for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). UAVs have been deployed for agriculture research and management, surveillance and sensor coverage for threat detection and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Yuchen Zhou , John S. Baras

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis has been developed over the past decades into a widely-applicable tool for determining goal satisfaction and safety verification in nonlinear systems. While HJ reachability can be formulated very…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Vicenc Rubies-Royo , David Fridovich-Keil , Sylvia Herbert , Claire J. Tomlin

The proven efficacy of learning-based control schemes strongly motivates their application to robotic systems operating in the physical world. However, guaranteeing correct operation during the learning process is currently an unresolved…

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability-based filtering provides a powerful framework to co-optimize performance and safety (or liveness) for autonomous systems. Under this filtering scheme, a nominal controller is minimally modified to ensure…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Javier Borquez , Kaustav Chakraborty , Hao Wang , Somil Bansal

Recently, there has been immense interest in using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for civilian operations such as package delivery, firefighting, and fast disaster response. As a result, UAV traffic management systems are needed to support…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Mo Chen , Qie Hu , Casey Mackin , Jaime F. Fisac , Claire J. Tomlin

Provably safe and scalable multi-vehicle path planning is an important and urgent problem due to the expected increase of automation in civilian airspace in the near future. Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability is an ideal tool for analyzing…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-15 Mo Chen , Somil Bansal , Ken Tanabe , Claire J. Tomlin

Learning-based approaches for controlling safety-critical systems are rapidly growing in popularity; thus, it is important to assure their performance and safety. Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis is a popular formal verification…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Albert Lin , Somil Bansal

While we have made significant algorithmic developments to enable autonomous systems to perform sophisticated tasks, it remains difficult for them to perform tasks effective and safely. Most existing approaches either fail to provide any…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Hao Wang , Armand Jordana , Ludovic Righetti , Somil Bansal

Ensuring the safety of autonomous systems under uncertainty is a critical challenge. Hamilton-Jacobi reachability (HJR) analysis is a widely used method for guaranteeing safety under worst-case disturbances. In this work, we propose HJRNO,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yankai Li , Mo Chen

Safe Multi-Agent Motion Planning (MAMP) is a significant challenge in robotics. Despite substantial advancements, existing methods often face a dilemma. Decentralized algorithms typically rely on predicting the behavior of other agents,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Qingyi Chen , Ahmed H. Qureshi

Safety is a central requirement for autonomous system operation across domains. Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis can be used to construct "least-restrictive" safety filters that result in infrequent, but often extreme, control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Athindran Ramesh Kumar , Kai-Chieh Hsu , Peter J. Ramadge , Jaime F. Fisac

Recent literature has proposed approaches that learn control policies with high performance while maintaining safety guarantees. Synthesizing Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachable sets has become an effective tool for verifying safety and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Milan Ganai , Sicun Gao , Sylvia Herbert

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis is an important formal verification method for guaranteeing performance and safety properties of dynamical control systems. Its advantages include compatibility with general nonlinear system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Somil Bansal , Claire Tomlin

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis is a widely used method for ensuring the safety of robotic systems. Traditional approaches compute reachable sets by numerically solving an HJ Partial Differential Equation (PDE) over a grid, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Zeyuan Feng , Le Qiu , Somil Bansal

Hamilton-Jacobi reachability analysis is a powerful technique used to verify the safety of autonomous systems. This method is very good at handling non-linear system dynamics with disturbances and flexible set representations. A drawback to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-09 Minh Bui , Michael Lu , Reza Hojabr , Mo Chen , Arrvindh Shriraman