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Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis is a widely adopted verification tool to provide safety and performance guarantees for autonomous systems. However, it involves solving a partial differential equation (PDE) to compute a safety…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Aditya Singh , Zeyuan Feng , Somil Bansal

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis is an important formal verification method for guaranteeing performance and safety properties of dynamical control systems. Its advantages include compatibility with general nonlinear system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Somil Bansal , Claire Tomlin

We give a full characterization of the range of the operator which associates, to any initial condition, the viscosity solution at time $T$ of a Hamilton-Jacobi equation with convex Hamiltonian. Our main motivation is to be able to treat…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Carlos Esteve-Yagüe , Enrique Zuazua

Providing formal safety and performance guarantees for autonomous systems is becoming increasingly important. Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis is a popular formal verification tool for providing these guarantees, since it can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Albert Lin , Somil Bansal

One of the most important problems in hybrid systems is the {\em reachability problem}. The reachability problem has been shown to be undecidable even for a subclass of {\em linear} hybrid systems. In view of this, the main focus in the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-09-29 D. Ravi , R. K. Shyamasundar

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis is a powerful framework for ensuring safety and performance in autonomous systems. However, existing methods typically rely on a white-box dynamics model of the system, limiting their applicability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Vamsi Krishna Chilakamarri , Zeyuan Feng , Somil Bansal

Traditional reachability methods provide formal guarantees of safety under bounded disturbances. However, they strictly enforce state constraints as inviolable, which can result in overly conservative or infeasible solutions in complex…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Chams Eddine Mballo , Donggun Lee , Claire J. Tomlin

A classic reachability problem for safety of dynamic systems is to compute the set of initial states from which the state trajectory is guaranteed to stay inside a given constraint set over a given time horizon. In this paper, we leverage…

In this paper, we consider the stochastic optimal control problem for jump diffusion systems with state constraints. In general, the value function of such problems is a discontinuous viscosity solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Jun Moon

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

We present a numeric method to compute the safe operating flight conditions for a helicopter such that we can ensure a safe landing in the event of a partial or total engine failure. The unsafe operating region is the complement of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Matthew R. Kirchner , Eddie Ball , Jacques Hoffler , Don Gaublomme

Hamilton-Jacobi reachability (HJR) is an exciting framework used for control of safety-critical systems with nonlinear and possibly uncertain dynamics. However, HJR suffers from the curse of dimensionality, with computation times growing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Dylan Hirsch , Sylvia Herbert

To reduce the computational cost of humanoid motion generation, we introduce a new approach to representing robot kinematic reachability: the differentiable reachability map. This map is a scalar-valued function defined in the task space…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Masaki Murooka , Iori Kumagai , Mitsuharu Morisawa , Fumio Kanehiro

Reachable set computation is an important tool for analyzing control systems. Simulating a control system can show general trends, but a formal tool like reachability analysis can provide guarantees of correctness. Reachability analysis for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-07 Chelsea Sidrane , Jana Tumova

In this article we approach a class of stochastic reachability problems with state constraints from an optimal control perspective. Preceding approaches to solving these reachability problems are either confined to the deterministic setting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Debasish Chatterjee , John Lygeros

In the standard setting of approachability there are two players and a target set. The players play repeatedly a known vector-valued game where the first player wants to have the average vector-valued payoff converge to the target set which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-20 Shie Mannor , Vianney Perchet , Gilles Stoltz

Reachability analysis provides formal guarantees for performance and safety properties of nonlinear control systems. Here, one aims to compute the backward reachable set (BRS) or tube (BRT) -- the set of states from which the system can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Mo Chen , Sylvia L. Herbert , Mahesh S. Vashishtha , Somil Bansal , Claire J. Tomlin

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

Backward reachable tubes (BRTs), computed via viscous Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) partial differential equations, provide principled safety certificates for learned controllers and planning algorithms in trustworthy machine learning. However,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Lekan Molu , Venkatraman Renganathan , Namhoon Cho

We study the convex hulls of reachable sets of nonlinear systems with bounded disturbances and uncertain initial conditions. Reachable sets play a critical role in control, but remain notoriously challenging to compute, and existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Thomas Lew , Riccardo Bonalli , Marco Pavone