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Reachability analysis has been a prominent way to provide safety guarantees for neurally controlled autonomous systems, but its direct application to neural perception components is infeasible due to imperfect or intractable perception…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Yuang Geng , Thomas Waite , Trevor Turnquist , Radoslav Ivanov , Ivan Ruchkin

We consider the problem of computing reachable sets directly from noisy data without a given system model. Several reachability algorithms are presented for different types of systems generating the data. First, an algorithm for computing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Amr Alanwar , Anne Koch , Frank Allgöwer , Karl Henrik Johansson

Neural networks achieve outstanding accuracy in classification and regression tasks. However, understanding their behavior still remains an open challenge that requires questions to be addressed on the robustness, explainability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Anna-Kathrin Kopetzki , Stephan Günnemann

Despite the possibility to quickly compute reachable sets of large-scale linear systems, current methods are not yet widely applied by practitioners. The main reason for this is probably that current approaches are not push-button-capable…

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

Iterative imperative programs can be considered as infinite-state systems computing over possibly unbounded domains. Studying reachability in these systems is challenging as it requires to deal with an infinite number of states with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-02-15 Arnaud Gotlieb , Tristan Denmat , Nadjib Lazaar

We present an approach to approximate reachable sets for linear systems with bounded L-infinity controls in finite time. Our first approach investigates the boundaries of these sets and reveals an exact characterization for single-input,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Steven Nguyen , Jorge Cortés , Boris Kramer

Reachability analysis aims at identifying states reachable by a system within a given time horizon. This task is known to be computationally expensive for linear hybrid systems. Reachability analysis works by iteratively applying continuous…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Sergiy Bogomolov , Marcelo Forets , Goran Frehse , Kostiantyn Potomkin , Christian Schilling

The probabilistic reachability problems of nondeterministic systems are studied. Based on the existing studies, the definition of probabilistic reachable sets is generalized by taking into account time-varying target set and obstacle. A…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-10 Wei Liao , Taotao Liang , Xiaohui Wei , Qiaozhi Yin

A shortcoming of existing reachability approaches for nonlinear systems is the poor scalability with the number of continuous state variables. To mitigate this problem we present a simulation-based approach where we first sample a number of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Murat Arcak , John Maidens

This work proposes a notion of robust reachability of one set from another set under constant control. This notion is used to construct a control strategy, involving sequential set-to-set reachability, which guarantees robust global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-11-21 Iasson Karafyllis , Costas Kravaris

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

Inner-approximate reachability analysis involves calculating subsets of reachable sets, known as inner-approximations. This analysis is crucial in the fields of dynamic systems analysis and control theory as it provides a reliable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-22 Dejin Ren , Zhen Liang , Chenyu Wu , Jianqiang Ding , Taoran Wu , Bai Xue

We present an algorithm for data-driven reachability analysis that estimates finite-horizon forward reachable sets for general nonlinear systems using level sets of a certain class of polynomials known as Christoffel functions. The level…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-29 Alex Devonport , Forest Yang , Laurent El Ghaoui , Murat Arcak

Reachability analysis is a critical tool for the formal verification of dynamical systems and the synthesis of controllers for them. Due to their computational complexity, many reachability analysis methods are restricted to systems with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-14 Alex Devonport , Mahmoud Khaled , Murat Arcak , Majid Zamani

Determining the reachable set for a given nonlinear control system is crucial for system control and planning. However, computing such a set is impossible if the system's dynamics are not fully known. This paper is motivated by a scenario…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-26 Taha Shafa , Melkior Ornik

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

Computing reachability probabilities is a fundamental problem in the analysis of probabilistic programs. This paper aims at a comprehensive and comparative account on various martingale-based methods for over- and under-approximating…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Toru Takisaka , Yuichiro Oyabu , Natsuki Urabe , Ichiro Hasuo

The vulnerability of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) against adversarial disturbances and attacks significantly restricts their applicability in safety-critical systems including cyber-physical systems (CPS) equipped…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Weiming Xiang , Hoang-Dung Tran , Xiaodong Yang , Taylor T. Johnson

We address the reachability problem for continuous-time stochastic dynamic systems. Our objective is to present a unified framework that characterizes the reachable set of a dynamic system in the presence of both stochastic disturbances and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Saber Jafarpour , Zishun Liu , Yongxin Chen

Hybrid systems - more precisely, their mathematical models - can exhibit behaviors, like Zeno behaviors, that are absent in purely discrete or purely continuous systems. First, we observe that, in this context, the usual definition of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Eugenio Moggi , Amin Farjudian , Adam Duracz , Walid Taha