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Neural networks (NNs) are becoming increasingly popular in the design of control pipelines for autonomous systems. However, since the performance of NNs can degrade in the presence of out-of-distribution data or adversarial attacks, systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Nicholas Rober , Jonathan P. How

We propose a scalable reachability-based framework for probabilistic, data-driven safety verification of unknown nonlinear dynamics. We use Koopman theory with a neural network (NN) lifting function to learn an approximate linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Devesh Nath , Haoran Yin , Glen Chou

Forward reachability analysis is a dominant approach for verifying reach-avoid specifications in neural feedback systems, i.e., dynamical systems controlled by neural networks, and a number of directions have been proposed and studied. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Samuel I. Akinwande , Sydney M. Katz , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Clark Barrett

In this work, we present a novel Koopman spectrum-based reachability verification method for nonlinear systems. Contrary to conventional methods that focus on characterizing all potential states of a dynamical system over a presupposed time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Jianqiang Ding , Shankar A. Deka

We propose a novel Branch-and-Bound method for reachability analysis of neural networks in both open-loop and closed-loop settings. Our idea is to first compute accurate bounds on the Lipschitz constant of the neural network in certain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 Taha Entesari , Sina Sharifi , Mahyar Fazlyab

Safety certification of data-driven control techniques remains a major open problem. This work investigates backward reachability as a framework for providing collision avoidance guarantees for systems controlled by neural network (NN)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Michael Everett , Rudy Bunel , Shayegan Omidshafiei

In this paper, we propose a data-driven reachability analysis approach for unknown system dynamics. Reachability analysis is an essential tool for guaranteeing safety properties. However, most current reachability analysis heavily relies on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Amr Alanwar , Anne Koch , Frank Allgöwer , Karl Henrik Johansson

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

As deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly used in safety-critical applications, there is a growing concern for their reliability. Even highly trained, high-performant networks are not 100% accurate. However, it is very difficult to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Eduard Pinconschi , Divya Gopinath , Rui Abreu , Corina S. Pasareanu

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

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

Recent years have witnessed the rapid advancement of understanding the control mechanism of networked dynamical systems (NDSs), which are governed by components such as nodal dynamics and topology. This paper reveals that the critical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-09 Yushan Li , Jianping He , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

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

Reachability analysis is a key formal verification technique for ensuring the safety of modern cyber physical systems subject to uncertainties in measurements, system models (parameters), and inputs. Classical model-based approaches rely on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Alireza Naderi Akhormeh , Amr Hegazy , Amr Alanwar

Pushdown systems (PDSs) and recursive state machines (RSMs), which are linearly equivalent, are standard models for interprocedural analysis. Yet RSMs are more convenient as they (a) explicitly model function calls and returns, and (b)…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Bernhard Kragl , Samarth Mishra , Andreas Pavlogiannis

A neural ordinary differential equations network (ODE-Net)-enabled reachability method (Neuro-Reachability) is devised for the dynamic verification of networked microgrids (NMs) with unidentified subsystems and heterogeneous uncertainties.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-14 Yifan Zhou , Peng Zhang

Model-based reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising tool for developing controllers for real world systems (e.g., robotics, autonomous driving, etc.). However, real systems often have constraints imposed on their state space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Akshita Gupta , Inseok Hwang

In this paper, we introduce BNN-DP, an efficient algorithmic framework for analysis of adversarial robustness of Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs). Given a compact set of input points $T\subset \mathbb{R}^n$, BNN-DP computes lower and upper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Steven Adams , Andrea Patane , Morteza Lahijanian , Luca Laurenti

Reachability analysis of hybrid systems has been used as a safety verification tool to assess offline whether the state of a system is capable of remaining within a designated safe region for a given time horizon. Although it has been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-24 Kendra Lesser , Meeko Oishi

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