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Despite the possibility to quickly compute reachable sets of large-scale linear systems, current methods are not yet widely applied by practitioners. The main reason for this is probably that current approaches are not push-button-capable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Mark Wetzlinger , Niklas Kochdumper , Matthias Althoff

Reachable sets for a dynamical system describe collections of system states that can be reached in finite time, subject to system dynamics. They can be used to guarantee goal satisfaction in controller design or to verify that unsafe…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Vincent Liu , Chris Manzie , Peter M. Dower

For hybrid systems exhibiting periodic behavior, analyzing the invariant set containing the limit cycle is a natural way to study the robustness of the closed-loop system. However, computing these sets can be computationally expensive,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Varun Madabushi , Akash Harapanahalli , Samuel Coogan , Maegan Tucker

We consider the problem of under and over-approximating the image of general vector-valued functions over bounded sets, and apply the proposed solution to the estimation of reachable sets of uncertain non-linear discrete-time dynamical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-28 Eric Goubault , Sylvie Putot

In this paper we propose a convex programming based method to address a long-standing problem of inner-approximating backward reachable sets of state-constrained polynomial systems subject to time-varying uncertainties. The backward…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-12 Bai Xue , Martin Fränzle , Naijun Zhan

Neural Networks (NNs) can provide major empirical performance improvements for closed-loop systems, but they also introduce challenges in formally analyzing those systems' safety properties. In particular, this work focuses on estimating…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Michael Everett , Golnaz Habibi , Chuangchuang Sun , Jonathan P. How

Infinitesimal contraction analysis provides exponential convergence rates between arbitrary pairs of trajectories of a system by studying the system's linearization. An essentially equivalent viewpoint arises through stability analysis of a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Akash Harapanahalli , Samuel Coogan

We consider the decidability of state-to-state reachability in linear time-invariant control systems over discrete time. We analyse this problem with respect to the allowable control sets, which in general are assumed to be defined by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-19 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Joël Ouaknine , Amaury Pouly , João Sousa-Pinto , James Worrell

This paper considers discrete-time linear systems with bounded additive disturbances, and studies the convergence properties of the backward reachable sets of robust controlled invariant sets (RCIS). Under a simple condition, we prove that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-28 Zexiang Liu , Necmiye Ozay

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

We present a method to overapproximate forward stochastic reach sets of discrete-time, stochastic nonlinear systems with interval geometry. This is made possible by extending the theory of mixed-monotone systems to incorporate stochastic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-05 Vignesh Sivaramakrishnan , Rosalyn A. Devonport , Murat Arcak , Meeko M. K. Oishi

This paper presents a novel approach for the identification of linear time-periodic (LTP) systems in continuous time. This method is based on harmonic modeling and consists in converting any LTP system into an equivalent LTI system with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Flora Vernerey , Pierre Riedinger , Andrea Iannelli , Jamal Daafouz

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

One of the most important problems in hybrid systems is the {\em reachability problem}. The reachability problem has been shown to be undecidable even for a subclass of {\em linear} hybrid systems. In view of this, the main focus in the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-09-29 D. Ravi , R. K. Shyamasundar

Neural Networks (NNs) can provide major empirical performance improvements for robotic systems, but they also introduce challenges in formally analyzing those systems' safety properties. In particular, this work focuses on estimating the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-26 Michael Everett , Golnaz Habibi , Jonathan P. How

This paper investigates approximation-theoretic aspects of the in-context learning capability of the transformers in representing a family of noisy linear dynamical systems. Our first theoretical result establishes an upper bound on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Frank Cole , Yuxuan Zhao , Yulong Lu , Tianhao Zhang

The proliferation of neural networks in safety-critical applications necessitates the development of effective methods to ensure their safety. This letter presents a novel approach for computing the exact backward reachable sets of neural…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Yuhao Zhang , Hang Zhang , Xiangru Xu

In this note, a novel methodology that can extract a number of analysis results for linear time-invariant systems (LTI) given only a single trajectory of the considered system is proposed. The superiority of the proposed technique relies on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-22 Hassan Abdelraouf , Fahad Albalawi , Eric Feron

Forward reachability analysis is the predominant approach for verifying reach-avoid properties in neural feedback systems (dynamical systems controlled by neural networks). This dominance stems from the limited scalability of existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Samuel I. Akinwande , Sydney M. Katz , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Clark Barrett