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As neural networks (NNs) become more prevalent in safety-critical applications such as control of vehicles, there is a growing need to certify that systems with NN components are safe. This paper presents a set of backward reachability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Nicholas Rober , Sydney M. Katz , Chelsea Sidrane , Esen Yel , Michael Everett , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Jonathan P. How

Over-approximating the reachable sets of dynamical systems is a fundamental problem in safety verification and robust control synthesis. The representation of these sets is a key factor that affects the computational complexity and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Taha Entesari , Mahyar Fazlyab

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

A novel method for control of dynamical systems, proposed in the paper, ensures an output signal belonging to the given set at any time. The method is based on a special change of coordinates such that the initial problem with given…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-19 Igor Furtat

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are widely employed to model complex dynamical systems due to their hidden-state structure, which inherently captures temporal dependencies. This work presents a hybrid zonotope-based approach for computing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-13 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

Neural networks hold great potential to act as approximate models of nonlinear dynamical systems, with the resulting neural approximations enabling verification and control of such systems. However, in safety-critical contexts, the use of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Frederik Baymler Mathiesen , Nikolaus Vertovec , Francesco Fabiano , Luca Laurenti , Alessandro Abate

Perception-based neural network controllers are increasingly used in autonomous systems that rely on visual inputs to operate in the real world. Ensuring the safety of such systems under uncertainty is challenging. Existing verification…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Alexander Estornell , Leonard Jung , Michael Everett

Hybrid systems play a crucial role in modeling real-world applications where discrete and continuous dynamics interact, including autonomous vehicles, power systems, and traffic networks. Safety verification for these systems requires…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Peng Xie , Johannes Betz , Davide M. Raimondo , Amr Alanwar

This paper proposes a data-driven approach to design a feedforward Neural Network (NN) controller with a stability guarantee for plants with unknown dynamics. We first introduce data-driven representations of stability conditions for Neural…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Zuxun Xiong , Han Wang , Liqun Zhao , Antonis Papachristodoulou

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

Synthesizing controllers that enforce both safety and actuator constraints is a central challenge in the design of cyber-physical systems. State-of-the-art reachability methods based on zonotopes deliver impressive scalability, yet no…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Jonathan Hellwig , Lukas Schäfer , Long Qian , André Platzer , Matthias Althoff

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

We present a novel tube-based data-driven predictive control method for linear systems affected by a bounded addictive disturbance. Our method leverages recent results in the reachability analysis of unknown linear systems to formulate and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Alessio Russo , Alexandre Proutiere

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

We propose a method to perform set-based state estimation of an unknown dynamical linear system using a data-driven set propagation function. Our method comes with set-containment guarantees, making it applicable to safety-critical systems.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Amr Alanwar , Alexander Berndt , Karl Henrik Johansson , Henrik Sandberg

Ensuring safety in cyber-physical systems (CPSs) is a critical challenge, especially when system models are difficult to obtain or cannot be fully trusted due to uncertainty, modeling errors, or environmental disturbances. Traditional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Mohammed Adib Oumer , Amr Alanwar , Majid Zamani

This paper introduces a novel method for the stability analysis of positive feedback systems with a class of fully connected feedforward neural networks (FFNN) controllers. By establishing sector bounds for fully connected FFNNs without…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Hamidreza Montazeri Hedesh , Milad Siami

Autonomous cyber-physical systems (CPS) rely on the correct operation of numerous components, with state-of-the-art methods relying on machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) components in various stages of sensing and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Weiming Xiang , Taylor T. Johnson

Neural networks are ubiquitous. However, they are often sensitive to small input changes. Hence, to prevent unexpected behavior in safety-critical applications, their formal verification -- a notoriously hard problem -- is necessary. Many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Lukas Koller , Tobias Ladner , Matthias Althoff