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With the continuous advancement in autonomous systems, it becomes crucial to provide robust safety guarantees for safety-critical systems. Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability Analysis is a formal verification method that guarantees performance and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-01 Qian Wang , Tianhao Wu

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

Recently there have been a lot of interests in introducing UAVs for a wide range of applications, making ensuring safety of multi-vehicle systems a highly crucial problem. Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability is a promising tool for analyzing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Jennifer C. Shih , Laurent El Ghaoui

With the recent surge of interest in introducing autonomous vehicles to the everyday lives of people, developing accurate and generalizable algorithms for predicting human behavior becomes highly crucial. Moreover, many of these emerging…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Jennifer Shih

This article presents a Hamilton--Jacobi (HJ) reachability framework for a two--satellite collision avoidance problem operating in the same circular orbit, where relative motion is modeled in the radial--tangential--normal (RTN) frame using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Larry Hui , Jordan Kam , William Su , Jianshu Zhou

Autonomous navigation requires planning to reach a goal safely and efficiently in complex and potentially dynamic environments. Graph search-based algorithms are widely adopted due to their generality and theoretical guarantees when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hanyang Hu , Cameron Siu , Mo Chen

The Hopf formula for Hamilton-Jacobi reachability (HJR) analysis has been proposed to solve high-dimensional differential games, producing the set of initial states and corresponding controller required to reach (or avoid) a target despite…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Will Sharpless , Nikhil Shinde , Matthew Kim , Yat Tin Chow , Sylvia Herbert

Safety is an important topic in autonomous driving since any collision may cause serious injury to people and damage to property. Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) Reachability is a formal method that verifies safety in multi-agent interaction and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Anjian Li , Liting Sun , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Mo Chen

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) Reachability is widely used to compute value functions for states satisfying specific control objectives. However, it becomes intractable for high-dimensional problems due to the curse of dimensionality. Dimensionality…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Chong He , Mugilan Mariappan , Keval Vora , Mo Chen

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

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis is a fundamental tool for the safety verification and control synthesis of nonlinear control systems. Classical HJ reachability analysis methods compute value functions over grids which discretize…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Ihab Tabbara , Eliya Badr , Hussein Sibai

As safety-critical autonomous vehicles (AVs) will soon become pervasive in our society, a number of safety concepts for trusted AV deployment have recently been proposed throughout industry and academia. Yet, achieving consensus on an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Karen Leung , Andrea Bajcsy , Edward Schmerling , Marco Pavone

Real-world autonomous vehicles often operate in a priori unknown environments. Since most of these systems are safety-critical, it is important to ensure they operate safely in the face of environment uncertainty, such as unseen obstacles.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Andrea Bajcsy , Somil Bansal , Eli Bronstein , Varun Tolani , Claire J. Tomlin

As perception-based controllers for autonomous systems become increasingly popular in the real world, it is important that we can formally verify their safety and performance despite perceptual uncertainty. Unfortunately, the verification…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Albert Lin , Alessandro Pinto , Somil Bansal

Contact-rich robotic systems, such as legged robots and manipulators, are often represented as hybrid systems. However, the stability analysis and region-of-attraction computation for these systems are often challenging because of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Jason J. Choi , Ayush Agrawal , Koushil Sreenath , Claire J. Tomlin , Somil Bansal

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. Although this problem has been studied in the past, there has not…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Mo Chen , Somil Bansal , Jaime F. Fisac , Claire J. Tomlin

Multi-vehicle collision avoidance is a highly crucial problem due to the soaring interests of introducing autonomous vehicles into the real world in recent years. The safety of these vehicles while they complete their objectives is of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Jennifer C. Shih , Akshara Rai , Laurent El Ghaoui

Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs (HJI) reachability analysis is a powerful tool for analyzing the safety of autonomous systems. This analysis is computationally intensive and typically performed offline. Online, however, the autonomous system may…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Sylvia L. Herbert , Shromona Ghosh , Somil Bansal , Claire J. Tomlin

Road safety continues to be a pressing global issue, with vehicle collisions imposing significant human, societal, and economic burdens. Human-machine shared collision avoidance in critical collision scenarios aims to aid drivers' accident…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Shiyue Zhao , Junzhi Zhang , Rui Zhou , Neda Masoud , Jianxiong Li , Helai Huang , Shijie Zhao

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability provides formal safety guarantees for dynamical systems, but solving high-dimensional HJ partial differential equations limits its use in real-time planning. This paper presents a contingency-aware…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Kasidit Muenprasitivej , Derya Aksaray