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Hamilton-Jacobi reachability methods for safety-critical control have been well studied, but the safety guarantees derived rely on the accuracy of the numerical computation. Thus, it is crucial to understand and account for any inaccuracies…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-15 Nikolaus Vertovec , Sina Ober-Blöbaum , Kostas Margellos

Reachability analysis of hybrid systems has been used as a safety verification tool to assess offline whether the state of a system is capable of remaining within a designated safe region for a given time horizon. Although it has been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-24 Kendra Lesser , Meeko Oishi

Reward fine-tuning of diffusion and flow models and sampling from tilted or Boltzmann distributions can both be formulated as stochastic optimal control (SOC) problems, where learning an optimal generative dynamics corresponds to optimizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Carles Domingo-Enrich , Jiequn Han

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

We analyze the consequences that the so-called turnpike property has on the long-time behavior of the value function corresponding to a finite-dimensional linear-quadratic optimal control problem with general terminal cost and constrained…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Carlos Esteve , Hicham Kouhkouh , Dario Pighin , Enrique Zuazua

This paper proposes a cooperative integrated estimation-guidance framework for simultaneous interception of a non-maneuvering target using a team of unmanned autonomous vehicles, assuming only a subset of vehicles are equipped with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Lohitvel Gopikannan , Shashi Ranjan Kumar , Abhinav Sinha

This letter presents a density function based safe control synthesis framework for the pursuit-evasion problem. We extend safety analysis to dynamic unsafe sets by formulating a reach-avoid type pursuit-evasion differential game as a robust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Mustafa Bozdag , Arya Honarpisheh , Mario Sznaier

This paper presents experiments for embedded cooperative distributed model predictive control applied to a team of hovercraft floating on an air hockey table. The hovercraft collectively solve a centralized optimal control problem in each…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Gösta Stomberg , Roland Schwan , Andrea Grillo , Colin N. Jones , Timm Faulwasser

This paper presents a new methodology to craft navigation functions for nonlinear systems with stochastic uncertainty. The method relies on the transformation of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation into a linear partial differential…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-09-23 Matanya B. Horowitz , Joel W. Burdick

This paper first introduces a method to approximate the value function of high-dimensional optimal control by neural networks. Based on the established relationship between Pontryagin's maximum principle (PMP) and the value function of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Mouhcine Assouli , Justina Gianatti , Badr Missaoui , Francisco J. Silva

We present a neural network approach for approximating the value function of high-dimensional stochastic control problems. Our training process simultaneously updates our value function estimate and identifies the part of the state space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Xingjian Li , Deepanshu Verma , Lars Ruthotto

We present a novel framework for solving optimal transport (OT) problems based on the Hamilton--Jacobi (HJ) equation, whose viscosity solution uniquely characterizes the OT map. By leveraging the method of characteristics, we derive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yesom Park , Shu Liu , Mo Zhou , Stanley Osher

Due to the intricate of real-world road topologies and the inherent complexity of autonomous vehicles, cooperative decision-making for multiple connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) remains a significant challenge. Currently, most methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Chengzhen Meng , Zhenmin Huang , Jun Ma

Motivated by the scalability limitations of Eulerian methods for variational Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs (HJI) formulations that provide a least restrictive controller in problems that involve state or input constraints under a worst-possible…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-23 Lekan Molu , Ian Abraham , Sylvia Herbert

This paper is devoted to the stochastic optimal control problem of ordinary differential equations allowing for both path-dependence and measurable randomness. As opposed to the deterministic path-dependent cases, the value function turns…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Jinniao Qiu

An optimal control problem is considered for a stochastic differential equation containing a state-dependent regime switching, with a recursive cost functional. Due to the non-exponential discounting in the cost functional, the problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Hongwei Mei , Jiongmin Yong

Aiming at the problem of driver's perception lag and low utilization efficiency of space-time resources in expressway ramp confluence area, based on the preemptive spatiotemporal trajectory Adjustment system, from the perspective of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Yuan Li , Xiaoxue Xu , Xiang Dong , Junfeng Hao , Tao Li , Sana Ullaha , Chuangrui Huang , Junjie Niu , Ziyan Zhao , Ting Peng

We unify Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability and Reinforcement Learning (RL) through a proposed running cost formulation. We prove that the resultant travel-cost value function is the unique bounded viscosity solution of a time-dependent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Prashant Solanki , Isabelle El-Hajj , Jasper van Beers , Erik-Jan van Kampen , Coen de Visser

This work presents an efficient method to solve a class of continuous-time, continuous-space stochastic optimal control problems of robot motion in a cluttered environment. The method builds upon a path integral representation of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-10 Jung-Su Ha , Han-Lim Choi

In this article, two methods for solving mean-field type optimal control problems are proposed and investigated. The two methods are iterative methods: at each iteration, a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation is solved, for a terminal…

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