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We consider the problem of planning trajectories for a group of $N$ vehicles, each aiming to reach its own target set while avoiding danger zones of other vehicles. The analysis of problems like this is extremely important practically,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Mo Chen , Jaime F. Fisac , Shankar Sastry , Claire J. Tomlin

Safety assurance is a critical yet challenging aspect when developing self-driving technologies. Hamilton-Jacobi backward-reachability analysis is a formal verification tool for verifying the safety of dynamic systems in the presence of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Ran Tian , Anjian Li , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Liting Sun

Recent literature has proposed approaches that learn control policies with high performance while maintaining safety guarantees. Synthesizing Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachable sets has become an effective tool for verifying safety and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Milan Ganai , Sicun Gao , Sylvia Herbert

Real-world autonomous vehicles often operate in a priori unknown environments. Since most of these systems are safety-critical, it is important to ensure they operate safely in the face of environment uncertainty, such as unseen obstacles.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Andrea Bajcsy , Somil Bansal , Eli Bronstein , Varun Tolani , Claire J. Tomlin

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hamilton-Jacobi reachability analysis is a powerful technique used to verify the safety of autonomous systems. This method is very good at handling non-linear system dynamics with disturbances and flexible set representations. A drawback to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-09 Minh Bui , Michael Lu , Reza Hojabr , Mo Chen , Arrvindh Shriraman

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

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-01 Qian Wang , Tianhao Wu

This article presents a Hamilton--Jacobi (HJ) reachability framework for a two--satellite collision avoidance problem operating in the same circular orbit, where relative motion is modeled in the radial--tangential--normal (RTN) frame using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Larry Hui , Jordan Kam , William Su , Jianshu Zhou

This work in progress considers reachability-based safety analysis in the domain of autonomous driving in multi-agent systems. We formulate the safety problem for a car following scenario as a differential game and study how different…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-30 Gilbert Bahati , Marsalis Gibson , Alexandre Bayen

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis is a widely used method for ensuring the safety of robotic systems. Traditional approaches compute reachable sets by numerically solving an HJ Partial Differential Equation (PDE) over a grid, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Zeyuan Feng , Le Qiu , Somil Bansal

Reachability analysis is important for studying optimal control problems and differential games, which are powerful theoretical tools for analyzing and modeling many practical problems in robotics, aircraft control, among other application…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-22 Mo Chen , Claire J. Tomlin

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Hao Wang , Armand Jordana , Ludovic Righetti , Somil Bansal

We present an overview of recently developed data-driven tools for safety analysis of autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assist systems. The core algorithms combine model-based, hybrid system reachability analysis with sensitivity…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Chuchu Fan , Bolun Qi , Sayan Mitra