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In this paper, we present an approach for designing feedback controllers for polynomial systems that maximize the size of the time-limited backwards reachable set (BRS). We rely on the notion of occupation measures to pose the synthesis…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-06-03 Anirudha Majumdar , Ram Vasudevan , Mark M. Tobenkin , Russ Tedrake

Backward reachability analysis computes the set of states that reach a target set under the competing influence of control input and disturbances. Depending on their interplay, the backward reachable set either represents all states that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Mark Wetzlinger , Matthias Althoff

In recent years, Neural Networks (NNs) have been employed to control nonlinear systems due to their potential capability in dealing with situations that might be difficult for conventional nonlinear control schemes. However, to the best of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Anran Li , John P. Swensen , Mehdi Hosseinzadeh

Deep neural networks can be trained to be efficient and effective controllers for dynamical systems; however, the mechanics of deep neural networks are complex and difficult to guarantee. This work presents a general approach for providing…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Kyle D. Julian , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

In this paper, we consider the problem of training neural network (NN) controllers for nonlinear dynamical systems that are guaranteed to satisfy safety and liveness (e.g., reach-avoid) properties. Our approach is to combine model-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Xiaowu Sun , Yasser Shoukry

Backward reachability (also termed controllability) has been extensively studied in control theory, and tools for a wide class of systems have been developed. Nevertheless, assessing a backward reachability analysis or synthesis remains…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Davide Liuzza , Paolo Falcone , Massimo Tipaldi , Luigi Glielmo

Artificial neural networks have recently been utilized in many feedback control systems and introduced new challenges regarding the safety of such systems. This paper considers the safe verification problem for a dynamical system with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Yuhao Zhang , Xiangru Xu

Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) have been widely utilized in the design of optimization-based controllers and filters for dynamical systems to ensure forward invariance of a given set of safe states. While CBF-based controllers offer…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-14 Damola Ajeyemi , Saber Jafarpour , Emiliano Dall'Anese

This paper aims to enhance the computational efficiency of safety verification of neural network control systems by developing a guaranteed neural network model reduction method. First, a concept of model reduction precision is proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Weiming Xiang , Zhongzhu Shao

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

We present a stochastic model predictive control framework for nonlinear systems subject to unbounded process noise with closed-loop guarantees. First, we provide a conceptual shrinking-horizon framework that utilizes general probabilistic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-06 Johannes Köhler , Melanie N. Zeilinger

One often wishes for the ability to formally analyze large-scale systems---typically, however, one can either formally analyze a rather small system or informally analyze a large-scale system. This work tries to further close this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Matthias Althoff

We present a robust data-driven control scheme for an unknown linear system model with bounded process and measurement noise. Instead of depending on a system model in traditional predictive control, a controller utilizing data-driven…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 Amr Alanwar , Yvonne Stürz , Karl Henrik Johansson

The design of tracking controllers that closely follow a reference trajectory while ensuring safety and robustness against disturbances is a challenging problem in the control of autonomous systems. In this work, we propose a neural…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Yuezhu Xu , Mohamed Serry , Jun Liu , S. Sivaranjani

A new framework is developed for control of constrained nonlinear systems with structured parametric uncertainties. Forward invariance of a safe set is achieved through online parameter adaptation and data-driven model estimation. The new…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-01 Brett T. Lopez , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine , Jonathan P. How

We present an approach to approximate reachable sets for linear systems with bounded L-infinity controls in finite time. Our first approach investigates the boundaries of these sets and reveals an exact characterization for single-input,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Steven Nguyen , Jorge Cortés , Boris Kramer

Recent research has shown that supervised learning can be an effective tool for designing optimal feedback controllers for high-dimensional nonlinear dynamic systems. But the behavior of these neural network (NN) controllers is still not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Tenavi Nakamura-Zimmerer , Qi Gong , Wei Kang

This work presents a method of efficiently computing inner and outer approximations of forward reachable sets for nonlinear control systems with changed dynamics and diminished control authority, given an a priori computed reachable set for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Hamza El-Kebir , Ani Pirosmanishvili , Melkior Ornik

Deep convolutional neural networks have been widely employed as an effective technique to handle complex and practical problems. However, one of the fundamental problems is the lack of formal methods to analyze their behavior. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Xiaodong Yang , Tomoya Yamaguchi , Hoang-Dung Tran , Bardh Hoxha , Taylor T Johnson , Danil Prokhorov

Neural networks can be used as approximations of several complex control schemes such as model predictive control. We show in this paper which properties deep neural networks with rectifier linear units as activation functions need to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-02 Benjamin Karg , Sergio Lucia