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In this paper, we propose a decision procedure of reachability for linear system {\xi}' = A{\xi} + u, where the matrix A's eigenvalues can be arbitrary algebraic numbers and the input u is a vector of trigonometric-exponential polynomials.…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Shiping Chen , Xinyu Ge

In this paper, we study the reachability of two closely related matrices appearing in the analysis of linear time-varying (LTV) systems over a finite time interval, namely, its closed-loop state transition matrix via a state feedback…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Fengjiao Liu , Yixiao Zhang , Panagiotis Tsiotras

We study feedback controller synthesis for reach-avoid control of discrete-time, linear time-invariant (LTI) systems with Gaussian process and measurement noise. The problem is to compute a controller such that, with at least some required…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Thom Badings , Hasan A. Poonawala , Marielle Stoelinga , Nils Jansen

We present a scalable underapproximation of the terminal hitting time stochastic reach-avoid probability at a given initial condition, for verification of high-dimensional stochastic LTI systems. While several approximation techniques have…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Abraham P. Vinod , Meeko M. K. Oishi

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

Deep neural networks have been widely applied as an effective approach to handle complex and practical problems. However, one of the most fundamental open problems is the lack of formal methods to analyze the safety of their behaviors. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Xiaodong Yang , Hoang-Dung Tran , Weiming Xiang , Taylor Johnson

In real world applications, uncertain parameters are the rule rather than the exception. We present a reachability algorithm for linear systems with uncertain parameters and inputs using set propagation of polynomial zonotopes. In contrast…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Yushen Huang , Ertai Luo , Stanley Bak , Yifan Sun

In this paper we study the reachability problem for discrete-time nonlinear stochastic systems. Our goal is to present a unified framework for calculating the probabilistic reachable set of discrete-time systems in the presence of both…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Zishun Liu , Saber Jafarpour , Yongxin Chen

We present POLAR, a polynomial arithmetic-based framework for efficient bounded-time reachability analysis of neural-network controlled systems (NNCSs). Existing approaches that leverage the standard Taylor Model (TM) arithmetic for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-27 Chao Huang , Jiameng Fan , Zhilu Wang , Yixuan Wang , Weichao Zhou , Jiajun Li , Xin Chen , Wenchao Li , Qi Zhu

Reachable set computation is an important technique for the verification of safety properties of dynamical systems. In this paper, we investigate reachable set computation for discrete nonlinear systems based on parallelotope bundles. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-08 Edward Kim , Stanley Bak , Parasara Sridhar Duggirala

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 output behaviors of neural networks will be crucial for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Weiming Xiang , Hoang-Dung Tran , Taylor T. Johnson

This paper addresses a fundamental challenge in data-driven reachability analysis: accurately representing and propagating non-convex reachable sets. We propose a novel approach using constrained polynomial zonotopes to describe reachable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Zhen Zhang , M. Umar B. Niazi , Michelle S. Chong , Karl H. Johansson , Amr Alanwar

Vector Addition Systems with States (VASS), equivalent to Petri nets, are a well-established model of concurrency. The central algorithmic challenge in VASS is the reachability problem: is there a run from a given starting state and counter…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Dmitry Chistikov , Wojciech Czerwiński , Filip Mazowiecki , Łukasz Orlikowski , Henry Sinclair-Banks , Karol Węgrzycki

In this paper, we study structural controllability of a linear time invariant (LTI) composite system consisting of several subsystems. We assume that the neighbourhood of each subsystem is unconstrained, i.e., any subsystem can interact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-17 Shana Moothedath , Prasanna Chaporkar , Madhu N. Belur

We consider the decidability of state-to-state reachability in linear time-invariant control systems over continuous time. We analyse this problem with respect to the allowable control sets, which are assumed to be the image under a linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Mohan Dantam , Amaury Pouly

Reachability is the problem of deciding whether there is a path from one vertex to the other in the graph. Standard graph traversal algorithms such as DFS and BFS take linear time to decide reachability however their space complexity is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Rahul Jain , Raghunath Tewari

Reachability and LTL model-checking problems for flat counter systems are known to be decidable but whereas the reachability problem can be shown in NP, the best known complexity upper bound for the latter problem is made of a tower of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Stéphane Demri , Amit Kumar Dhar , Arnaud sangnier

We propose a signal temporal logic (STL)-based framework that rigorously verifies the feasibility of a mission described in STL and synthesizes control to safely execute it. The proposed framework ensures safe and reliable operation through…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-27 Joonwon Choi , Kartik Anand Pant , Youngim Nam , Henry Hellmann , Karthik Nune , Inseok Hwang

This paper presents TIRA, a Matlab library gathering several methods for the computation of interval over-approximations of the reachable sets for both continuous- and discrete-time nonlinear systems. Unlike other existing tools, the main…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Pierre-Jean Meyer , Alex Devonport , Murat Arcak

In this paper, we consider the computational complexity of formally verifying the behavior of Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) Neural Networks (NNs), where verification entails determining whether the NN satisfies convex polytopic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 James Ferlez , Yasser Shoukry