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In this paper, we present a data-driven framework for real-time estimation of reachable sets for control systems where the plant is modeled using neural networks (NNs). We utilize a running example of a quadrotor model that is learned using…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Omanshu Thapliyal , Inseok Hwang

We propose a novel Branch-and-Bound method for reachability analysis of neural networks in both open-loop and closed-loop settings. Our idea is to first compute accurate bounds on the Lipschitz constant of the neural network in certain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 Taha Entesari , Sina Sharifi , Mahyar Fazlyab

The proliferation of neural networks in safety-critical applications necessitates the development of effective methods to ensure their safety. This letter presents a novel approach for computing the exact backward reachable sets of neural…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Yuhao Zhang , Hang Zhang , Xiangru Xu

Safety certification of data-driven control techniques remains a major open problem. This work investigates backward reachability as a framework for providing collision avoidance guarantees for systems controlled by neural network (NN)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Michael Everett , Rudy Bunel , Shayegan Omidshafiei

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

Artificial neural networks have recently been utilized in many feedback control systems and introduced new challenges regarding the safety of such systems. This paper considers the safe verification problem for a dynamical system with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Yuhao Zhang , Xiangru Xu

We study the verification problem for closed-loop dynamical systems with neural-network controllers (NNCS). This problem is commonly reduced to computing the set of reachable states. When considering dynamical systems and neural networks in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-07 Christian Schilling , Marcelo Forets , Sebastian Guadalupe

While reachability analysis is one of the most promising approaches for formal verification of dynamic systems, a major disadvantage preventing a more widespread application is the requirement to manually tune algorithm parameters such as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Niklas Kochdumper , Stanley Bak

When autonomous vehicles encounter untrained scenarios, ensuring safety hinges on effective safety verification to prevent accidents stemming from unexpected model decisions. Reachability analysis, a method of safety verification, offers…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Lingxiang Fan , Linxuan He , Haoyuan Ji , Shuo Feng

Neural networks have been widely used to solve complex real-world problems. Due to the complicate, nonlinear, non-convex nature of neural networks, formal safety guarantees for the behaviors of neural network systems will be crucial for…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Weiming Xiang , Diego Manzanas Lopez , Patrick Musau , Taylor T. Johnson

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

Model predictive control allows solving complex control tasks with control and state constraints. However, an optimal control problem must be solved in real-time to predict the future system behavior, which is hardly possible on embedded…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-13 Jan Olucak , Walter Fichter , Torbjørn Cunis

Numerous tasks in program analysis and synthesis reduce to deciding reachability in possibly infinite graphs such as those induced by Petri nets. However, the Petri net reachability problem has recently been shown to require non-elementary…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Michael Blondin , Christoph Haase , Philip Offtermatt

In this paper we propose a novel semi-definite programming approach that solves reach-avoid problems over open (i.e., not bounded a priori) time horizons for dynamical systems modeled by polynomial stochastic differential equations. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Bai Xue , Naijun Zhan , Martin Fränzle

Under-approximations of reachable sets and tubes have been receiving growing research attention due to their important roles in control synthesis and verification. Available under-approximation methods applicable to continuous-time linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-15 Mohamed Serry , Jun Liu

Quantifying the robustness of neural networks or verifying their safety properties against input uncertainties or adversarial attacks have become an important research area in learning-enabled systems. Most results concentrate around the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-11 Mahyar Fazlyab , Manfred Morari , George J. Pappas

In this work, we present a numerical optimal control framework for reachable set computation using \emph{normotopes}, a new set representation as a norm ball with a shaping matrix. In reachable set computations, we expect to continuously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Akash Harapanahalli , Samuel Coogan

Neural network controllers have shown potential in achieving superior performance in feedback control systems. Although a neural network can be trained efficiently using deep and reinforcement learning methods, providing formal guarantees…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Han Wang , Zuxun Xiong , Liqun Zhao , Antonis Papachristodoulou

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

We propose a new technique for performing state space exploration of closed loop control systems with neural network feedback controllers. Our approach involves approximating the sensitivity of the trajectories of the closed loop dynamics.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-11 Manish Goyal , Miheer Dewaskar , Parasara Sridhar Duggirala