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With the continuous advancement in autonomous systems, it becomes crucial to provide robust safety guarantees for safety-critical systems. Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability Analysis is a formal verification method that guarantees performance and…

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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…

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Safety assurance is a fundamental requirement for deploying learning-enabled autonomous systems. Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis is a fundamental method for formally verifying safety and generating safe controllers. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Ihab Tabbara , Yuxuan Yang , Hussein Sibai

Ensuring the safety of autonomous systems under uncertainty is a critical challenge. Hamilton-Jacobi reachability (HJR) analysis is a widely used method for guaranteeing safety under worst-case disturbances. In this work, we propose HJRNO,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yankai Li , Mo Chen

In this paper, we present a framework for enabling autonomous vehicles to interact with cyclists in a manner that balances safety and optimality. The approach integrates Hamilton-Jacobi reachability analysis with deep Q-learning to jointly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Aarati Andrea Noronha , Jean Oh

Hamilton-Jacobi reachability methods for safety-critical control have been well studied, but the safety guarantees derived rely on the accuracy of the numerical computation. Thus, it is crucial to understand and account for any inaccuracies…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-15 Nikolaus Vertovec , Sina Ober-Blöbaum , Kostas Margellos

Verifying the correct behavior of robots in contact tasks is challenging due to model uncertainties associated with contacts. Standard methods for testing often fall short since all (uncountable many) solutions cannot be obtained. Instead,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Chencheng Tang , Matthias Althoff

The proven efficacy of learning-based control schemes strongly motivates their application to robotic systems operating in the physical world. However, guaranteeing correct operation during the learning process is currently an unresolved…

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

Learning-based approaches for controlling safety-critical systems are rapidly growing in popularity; thus, it is important to assure their performance and safety. Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis is a popular formal verification…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Albert Lin , Somil Bansal

Recently there have been a lot of interests in introducing UAVs for a wide range of applications, making ensuring safety of multi-vehicle systems a highly crucial problem. Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability is a promising tool for analyzing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Jennifer C. Shih , Laurent El Ghaoui

Multi-agent differential games are important and useful tools for analyzing many practical problems. With the recent surge of interest in using UAVs for civil purposes, the importance and urgency of developing tractable multi-agent analysis…

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Robots such as autonomous vehicles and assistive manipulators are increasingly operating in dynamic environments and close physical proximity to people. In such scenarios, the robot can leverage a human motion predictor to predict their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Kensuke Nakamura , Somil Bansal

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability is a rigorous mathematical framework that enables robots to simultaneously detect unsafe states and generate actions that prevent future failures. While in theory, HJ reachability can synthesize safe…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Kensuke Nakamura , Lasse Peters , Andrea Bajcsy

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability provides formal safety guarantees for dynamical systems, but solving high-dimensional HJ partial differential equations limits its use in real-time planning. This paper presents a contingency-aware…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Kasidit Muenprasitivej , Derya Aksaray

Autonomous navigation requires planning to reach a goal safely and efficiently in complex and potentially dynamic environments. Graph search-based algorithms are widely adopted due to their generality and theoretical guarantees when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hanyang Hu , Cameron Siu , Mo Chen

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

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability-based filtering provides a powerful framework to co-optimize performance and safety (or liveness) for autonomous systems. Under this filtering scheme, a nominal controller is minimally modified to ensure…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Javier Borquez , Kaustav Chakraborty , Hao Wang , Somil Bansal

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

While we have made significant algorithmic developments to enable autonomous systems to perform sophisticated tasks, it remains difficult for them to perform tasks effective and safely. Most existing approaches either fail to provide any…

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