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A reinforcement learning (RL) policy trained in a nominal environment could fail in a new/perturbed environment due to the existence of dynamic variations. Existing robust methods try to obtain a fixed policy for all envisioned dynamic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Yikun Cheng , Pan Zhao , Manan Gandhi , Bo Li , Evangelos Theodorou , Naira Hovakimyan

This letter studies the dynamical properties of safety filters designed based on Control Barrier Functions (CBF). This mechanism, which is popular in safety-critical applications, takes a nominal controller and minimally modifies it to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Pol Mestres , Shima Sadat Mousavi , Aaron D. Ames

With the increasing complexity of real-world systems and varying environmental uncertainties, it is difficult to build an accurate dynamic model, which poses challenges especially for safety-critical control. In this paper, a learning-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-13 Sihua Zhang , Di-Hua Zhai , Xiaobing Dai , Tzu-yuan Huang , Yuanqing Xia , Sandra Hirche

This paper presents a novel approach for synthesizing control barrier functions (CBFs) from high relative degree safety constraints: Rectified CBFs (ReCBFs). We begin by discussing the limitations of existing High-Order CBF approaches and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Pio Ong , Max H. Cohen , Tamas G. Molnar , Aaron D. Ames

In this paper, we study the energy equality for weak solutions to the non-resistive MHD equations with physical boundaries. Although the equations of magnetic field $b$ are of hyperbolic type, and the boundary effects are considered, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Wenke Tan , Fan Wu

A class of high-order lowpass filters, the discrete singular convolution (DSC) filters, is utilized to facilitate the Fourier pseudospectral method for the solution of hyperbolic conservation law systems. The DSC filters are implemented…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Y. H. Sun , Y. C. Zhou , G. W. Wei

Solutions to hyperbolic conservation laws can be approximated in many different ways: by vanishing viscosity, relaxations, discrete or semi-discrete numerical schemes, approximation with a nonlocal flux, etc$\ldots$ For some of these…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Alberto Bressan , Laura Caravenna , Wen Shen

It is quite challenging to ensure the safety of reinforcement learning (RL) agents in an unknown and stochastic environment under hard constraints that require the system state not to reach certain specified unsafe regions. Many popular…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Yixuan Wang , Simon Sinong Zhan , Ruochen Jiao , Zhilu Wang , Wanxin Jin , Zhuoran Yang , Zhaoran Wang , Chao Huang , Qi Zhu

A novel structure-preserving numerical method to solve random hyperbolic systems of conservation laws is presented. The method uses a concept of generalized, measure-valued solutions to random conservation laws. This yields a linear partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Shaoshuai Chu , Michael Herty , Maria Lukacova-Medvidova , Yizhou Zhou

We address nonautonomous initial boundary value problems for decoupled linear first-order one-dimensional hyperbolic systems, investigating the phenomenon of finite time stabilization. We establish sufficient and necessary conditions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Irina Kmit , Natalya Lyul'ko

An algorithm is constructed which allows to express conserved flows of hyperbolic equations in terms of corresponding conserved densities and to eliminate these flows from conservation laws of hyperbolic equations. The application of this…

solv-int · Physics 2008-02-03 S. Ya. Startsev

This paper studies the problem of finite-time convergence to a prescribed safe set for nonlinear systems whose initial states violate the safety constraints. Existing Control Lyapunov-Barrier Functions (CLBFs) can enforce recovery to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Anni Li , Yingqing Chen , Christos G. Cassandras , Wei Xiao

We investigate the long-time behavior of solutions of quasilinear hyperbolic systems with transparent boundary conditions when small source terms are incorporated in the system. Even if the finite-time stability of the system is not…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-29 Martin Gugat , Vincent Perrollaz , Lionel Rosier

This paper studies the active flux (AF) methods for two-dimensional hyperbolic conservation laws, focusing on the flux vector splitting (FVS) for the point value update and bound-preserving (BP) limitings, which is an extension of our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Junming Duan , Wasilij Barsukow , Christian Klingenberg

We prove the well-posedness of entropy weak solutions for a class of space-discontinuous scalar conservation laws with non-local flux arising in traffic modeling. We approximate the problem adding a viscosity term and we provide $L^\infty$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Felisia Angela Chiarello , Giuseppe Maria Coclite

Turing patterns on unbounded domains have been widely studied in systems of reaction-diffusion equations. However, up to now, they have not been studied for systems of conservation laws. Here, we (i) derive conditions for Turing instability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Blake Barker , Soyeun Jung , Kevin Zumbrun

This paper proposes a safety-critical control design approach for nonlinear control affine systems in the presence of matched and unmatched uncertainties. Our constructive framework couples control barrier function (CBF) theory with a new…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Ersin Das , Joel W. Burdick

For hyperbolic systems of conservation laws, including important physical models from continuum mechanics, the question of stability for large data solutions remains a challenging open problem. In recent work (arXiv:2507.23645) the authors…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Geng Chen , Cooper Faile , Sam G. Krupa

Safety stands as the primary obstacle preventing the widespread adoption of learning-based robotic systems in our daily lives. While reinforcement learning (RL) shows promise as an effective robot learning paradigm, conventional RL…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Maeva Guerrier , Karthik Soma , Hassan Fouad , Giovanni Beltrame

We demonstrate the global existence of weak solutions to a class of semilinear strongly damped wave equations possessing nonlinear hyperbolic dynamic boundary conditions. Our work assumes $(-\Delta_W)^\theta \partial_tu$ with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Joseph L. Shomberg