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Backward reachability analysis is essential to synthesizing controllers that ensure the correctness of closed-loop systems. This paper is concerned with developing scalable algorithms that under-approximate the backward reachable sets, for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-29 Liren Yang , Hang Zhang , Jean-Baptiste Jeannin , Necmiye Ozay

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

The increasing prevalence of neural networks in safety-critical control systems underscores the imperative need for rigorous methods to ensure the reliability and safety of these systems. This work introduces a novel approach employing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Hang Zhang , Yuhao Zhang , Xiangru Xu

Ellipsoids are a common representation for reachability analysis, because they can be transformed efficiently under affine maps, and allow conservative approximation of Minkowski sums, which let one incorporate uncertainty and linearization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-23 Shreyas Kousik , Adam Dai , Grace Gao

This paper proposes methods for reachability analysis of nonlinear systems in both open loop and closed loop with advanced controllers. The methods combine hybrid zonotopes, a construct called a state-update set, functional decomposition,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-26 Jacob A. Siefert , Trevor J. Bird , Andrew F. Thompson , Jonah J. Glunt , Justin P. Koeln , Neera Jain , Herschel C. Pangborn

We introduce sparse polynomial zonotopes, a new set representation for formal verification of hybrid systems. Sparse polynomial zonotopes can represent non-convex sets and are generalizations of zonotopes, polytopes, and Taylor models.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Niklas Kochdumper , Matthias Althoff

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

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for computing robust backward reachable sets from noisy data for unknown constrained linear systems subject to bounded disturbances. In particular, we develop an algorithm for obtaining zonotopic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Mehran Attar , Walter Lucia

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 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

In this paper, we propose reachability analysis using constrained polynomial logical zonotopes. We perform reachability analysis to compute the set of states that could be reached. To do this, we utilize a recently introduced set…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Ahmad Hafez , Frank J. Jiang , Karl H. Johansson , Amr Alanwar

In this paper, we propose a data-driven reachability analysis approach for unknown system dynamics. Reachability analysis is an essential tool for guaranteeing safety properties. However, most current reachability analysis heavily relies on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Amr Alanwar , Anne Koch , Frank Allgöwer , Karl Henrik Johansson

This paper presents a novel algorithm for reachability analysis of nonlinear discrete-time systems. The proposed method combines constrained zonotopes (CZs) with polyhedral relaxations of factorable representations of nonlinear functions to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-17 Brenner S. Rego , Guilherme V. Raffo , Marco H. Terra , Joseph K. Scott

Zonotopes are becoming an increasingly popular set representation for formal verification techniques. This is mainly due to their efficient representation and their favorable computational complexity of important operations in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Matthias Althoff

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

We employ reachability analysis in designing dynamic quantization schemes for the remote state estimation of linear systems over a finite date rate communication channel. The quantization region is dynamically updated at each transmission…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Yaodong Li , Michelle S. Chong

This paper presents identities for calculating over-approximated successor sets of discrete-time nonlinear systems using hybrid zonotopes. The proposed technique extends the state-update set construct, previously developed for linear hybrid…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Jacob A. Siefert , Trevor J. Bird , Justin P. Koeln , Neera Jain , Herschel C. Pangborn

Hybrid zonotopes generalize constrained zonotopes by introducing additional binary variables and possess some unique properties that make them convenient to represent nonconvex sets. This paper presents novel hybrid zonotope-based methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Yuhao Zhang , Xiangru Xu

The zonotope containment problem, i.e., whether one zonotope is contained in another, is a central problem in control theory. Applications include detecting faults and robustifying controllers by computing invariant sets, and obtain fixed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Adrian Kulmburg , Lukas Schäfer , Matthias Althoff

Reachability analysis is a powerful tool for computing the set of states or outputs reachable for a system. While previous work has focused on systems described by state-space models, we present the first methods to compute reachable sets…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-29 Laura Lützow , Matthias Althoff
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