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We introduce constrained polynomial zonotopes, a novel non-convex set representation that is closed under linear map, Minkowski sum, Cartesian product, convex hull, intersection, union, and quadratic as well as higher-order maps. We show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Niklas Kochdumper , Matthias Althoff

This article presents a new set representation named the hybrid zonotope that is equivalent to the union of $2^N$ constrained zonotopes -- convex polytopes -- through the addition of $N$ binary zonotope factors. The major contribution of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Trevor J. Bird , Herschel C. Pangborn , Neera Jain , Justin P. Koeln

Reachability analysis for hybrid nonaffine systems remains computationally challenging, as existing set representations--including constrained, polynomial, and hybrid zonotopes--either lose tightness under high-order nonaffine maps or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Peng Xie , Zhen Zhang , Amr Alanwar

This paper proposes methods for reachability analysis of nonlinear systems in both open loop and closed loop with advanced controllers. The methods combine hybrid zonotopes, a construct called a state-update set, functional decomposition,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-26 Jacob A. Siefert , Trevor J. Bird , Andrew F. Thompson , Jonah J. Glunt , Justin P. Koeln , Neera Jain , Herschel C. Pangborn

Ellipsoids are a common representation for reachability analysis, because they can be transformed efficiently under affine maps, and allow conservative approximation of Minkowski sums, which let one incorporate uncertainty and linearization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-23 Shreyas Kousik , Adam Dai , Grace Gao

Set representations are the foundation of various set-based approaches in state estimation, reachability analysis and fault diagnosis. In this paper, we investigate spectrahedral shadows, a class of nonlinear geometric objects previously…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Chengrui Wang , Haohao Qiu , Sibo Yao , James Lam

In this paper, we propose reachability analysis using constrained polynomial logical zonotopes. We perform reachability analysis to compute the set of states that could be reached. To do this, we utilize a recently introduced set…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Ahmad Hafez , Frank J. Jiang , Karl H. Johansson , Amr Alanwar

In this paper, we introduce a set representation called polynomial logical zonotopes for performing exact and computationally efficient reachability analysis on logical systems. We prove that through this polynomial-like construction, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Amr Alanwar , Frank J. Jiang , Karl H. Johansson

This paper addresses a fundamental challenge in data-driven reachability analysis: accurately representing and propagating non-convex reachable sets. We propose a novel approach using constrained polynomial zonotopes to describe reachable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Zhen Zhang , M. Umar B. Niazi , Michelle S. Chong , Karl H. Johansson , Amr Alanwar

Zonotopes are widely used for over-approximating forward reachable sets of uncertain linear systems for verification purposes. In this paper, we use zonotopes to achieve more scalable algorithms that under-approximate backward reachable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-18 Liren Yang , Necmiye Ozay

In real world applications, uncertain parameters are the rule rather than the exception. We present a reachability algorithm for linear systems with uncertain parameters and inputs using set propagation of polynomial zonotopes. In contrast…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Yushen Huang , Ertai Luo , Stanley Bak , Yifan Sun

This paper proposes a method for set-valued state estimation of nonlinear, discrete-time systems. This is achieved by combining graphs of functions representing system dynamics and measurements with the hybrid zonotope set representation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Jacob A. Siefert , Andrew F. Thompson , Jonah J. Glunt , Herschel C. Pangborn

Hybrid zonotopes generalize constrained zonotopes by introducing additional binary variables and possess some unique properties that make them convenient to represent nonconvex sets. This paper presents novel hybrid zonotope-based methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Yuhao Zhang , Xiangru Xu

Backward reachability analysis is essential to synthesizing controllers that ensure the correctness of closed-loop systems. This paper is concerned with developing scalable algorithms that under-approximate the backward reachable sets, for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-29 Liren Yang , Hang Zhang , Jean-Baptiste Jeannin , Necmiye Ozay

We prove that each bounded polytope can be represented as a polynomial zonotope, which we refer to as the Z-representation of polytopes. Previous representations are the vertex representation (V-representation) and the halfspace…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-17 Niklas Kochdumper , Matthias Althoff

This paper presents a novel algorithm for reachability analysis of nonlinear discrete-time systems. The proposed method combines constrained zonotopes (CZs) with polyhedral relaxations of factorable representations of nonlinear functions to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-17 Brenner S. Rego , Guilherme V. Raffo , Marco H. Terra , Joseph K. Scott

This paper presents new methods for set-valued state estimation of nonlinear discrete-time systems with unknown-but-bounded uncertainties. A single time step involves propagating an enclosure of the system states through the nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Brenner S. Rego , Guilherme V. Raffo , Joseph K. Scott , Davide M. Raimondo

Feedforward neural networks are widely used in autonomous systems, particularly for control and perception tasks within the system loop. However, their vulnerability to adversarial attacks necessitates formal verification before deployment…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Yuhao Zhang , Xiangru Xu

This paper introduces zonoLAB, a MATLAB-based toolbox for set-based control system analysis using the hybrid zonotope set representation. Hybrid zonotopes have proven to be an expressive set representation that can exactly represent the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Justin Koeln , Trevor J. Bird , Jacob Siefert , Justin Ruths , Herschel Pangborn , Neera Jain

Zonotopes are becoming an increasingly popular set representation for formal verification techniques. This is mainly due to their efficient representation and their favorable computational complexity of important operations in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Matthias Althoff
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