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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

Safety is a critical concern for the next generation of autonomy that is likely to rely heavily on deep neural networks for perception and control. Formally verifying the safety and robustness of well-trained DNNs and learning-enabled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Xiaodong Yang , Tom Yamaguchi , Hoang-Dung Tran , Bardh Hoxha , Taylor T Johnson , Danil Prokhorov

Neural networks (NN) have been successfully applied to approximate various types of complex control laws, resulting in low-complexity NN-based controllers that are fast to evaluate. However, when approximating control laws using NN,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Dieter Teichrib , Moritz Schulze Darup

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

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

This paper proposes a computationally efficient framework, based on interval analysis, for rigorous verification of nonlinear continuous-time dynamical systems with neural network controllers. Given a neural network, we use an existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Saber Jafarpour , Akash Harapanahalli , Samuel Coogan

Applying neural networks as controllers in dynamical systems has shown great promises. However, it is critical yet challenging to verify the safety of such control systems with neural-network controllers in the loop. Previous methods for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Chao Huang , Jiameng Fan , Wenchao Li , Xin Chen , Qi Zhu

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

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

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

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

Verifying correctness of deep neural networks (DNNs) is challenging. We study a generic reachability problem for feed-forward DNNs which, for a given set of inputs to the network and a Lipschitz-continuous function over its outputs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Wenjie Ruan , Xiaowei Huang , Marta Kwiatkowska

Neural network controllers (NNCs) have shown great promise in autonomous and cyber-physical systems. Despite the various verification approaches for neural networks, the safety analysis of NNCs remains an open problem. Existing verification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Chi Zhang , Wenjie Ruan , Peipei Xu

Neural networks have been widely used to solve complex real-world problems. Due to the complicate, nonlinear, non-convex nature of neural networks, formal safety guarantees for the behaviors of neural network systems will be crucial for…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Weiming Xiang , Diego Manzanas Lopez , Patrick Musau , Taylor T. Johnson

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

The decision logic for the ACAS X family of aircraft collision avoidance systems is represented as a large numeric table. Due to storage constraints of certified avionics hardware, neural networks have been suggested as a way to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-07 Kyle D. Julian , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Autonomous systems, such as self-driving cars and drones, have made significant strides in recent years by leveraging visual inputs and machine learning for decision-making and control. Despite their impressive performance, these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Kaustav Chakraborty , Aryaman Gupta , Somil Bansal

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

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

Neural networks have recently become popular for a wide variety of uses, but have seen limited application in safety-critical domains such as robotics near and around humans. This is because it remains an open challenge to train a neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Long Kiu Chung , Adam Dai , Derek Knowles , Shreyas Kousik , Grace X. Gao