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We present an algorithm for data-driven reachability analysis that estimates finite-horizon forward reachable sets for general nonlinear systems using level sets of a certain class of polynomials known as Christoffel functions. The level…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-29 Alex Devonport , Forest Yang , Laurent El Ghaoui , Murat Arcak

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 paper, we propose a system-level approach for verifying the safety of neural network controlled systems, combining a continuous-time physical system with a discrete-time neural network based controller. We assume a generic model for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Arthur Clavière , Eric Asselin , Christophe Garion , Claire Pagetti

In this work, the reachable set estimation and safety verification problems for a class of piecewise linear systems equipped with neural network controllers are addressed. The neural network is considered to consist of Rectified Linear Unit…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Weiming Xiang , Hoang-Dung Tran , Joel A. Rosenfeld , Taylor T. Johnson

This paper is concerned with identifying linear system dynamics without the knowledge of individual system trajectories, but from the knowledge of the system's reachable sets observed at different times. Motivated by a scenario where the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-11 Taha Shafa , Roy Dong , Melkior Ornik

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

Shaping the reachable set of a dynamical system is a fundamental challenge in control design, with direct implications for both performance and safety. This paper considers the problem of selecting the optimal input matrix for a linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Hrishav Das , Melkior Ornik

Even though neural networks are being increasingly deployed in safety-critical control applications, it remains difficult to enforce constraints on their output, meaning that it is hard to guarantee safety in such settings. While many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Long Kiu Chung , Shreyas Kousik

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

Recently, formal verification of deep neural networks (DNNs) has garnered considerable attention, and over-approximation based methods have become popular due to their effectiveness and efficiency. However, these strategies face challenges…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Zhen Liang , Taoran Wu , Ran Zhao , Bai Xue , Ji Wang , Wenjing Yang , Shaojun Deng , Wanwei Liu

In this paper, we explain the universal approximation capabilities of deep residual neural networks through geometric nonlinear control. Inspired by recent work establishing links between residual networks and control systems, we provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Paulo Tabuada , Bahman Gharesifard

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

Sapo is a C++ tool for the formal analysis of polynomial dynamical systems. Its main features are: 1) Reachability computation, i.e., the calculation of the set of states reachable from a set of initial conditions, and 2) Parameter…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Tommaso Dreossi

The constrained zonotope is a polytopic set representation widely used for set-based analysis and control of dynamic systems. This paper develops methods to formulate and solve optimization problems for dynamic systems in real time using…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Joshua A. Robbins , Jacob A. Siefert , Herschel C. Pangborn

Controlling real-world networked systems, including ecological, biomedical, and engineered networks that exhibit higher-order interactions, remains challenging due to inherent nonlinearities and large system scales. Despite extensive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Joshua Pickard , Xin Mao , Can Chen

A fundamental question in systems biology is what combinations of mean and variance of the species present in a stochastic biochemical reaction network are attainable by perturbing the system with an external signal. To address this…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Francesca Parise , Maria Elena Valcher , John Lygeros

Mixed-monotone systems are separable via a decomposition function into increasing and decreasing components, and this decomposition function allows for embedding the system dynamics in a higher-order monotone embedding system. Embedding the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 Matthew Abate , Samuel Coogan

This paper investigates the application of reachability analysis to the re-entry problem faced by vehicles entering Earth's atmosphere. The study delves into the time evolution of reachable sets for the system, particularly when subject to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-01 Jinaykumar Patel , Kamesh Subbarao

We study fundamental reachability problems on pseudo-orbits of linear dynamical systems. Pseudo-orbits can be viewed as a model of computation with limited precision and pseudo-reachability can be thought of as a robust version of classical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Julian D'Costa , Toghrul Karimov , Rupak Majumdar , Joël Ouaknine , Mahmoud Salamati , James Worrell

This work considers artificial feed-forward neural networks as parametric approximators in optimal control of discrete-time systems. Two different approaches are introduced to take polytopic input constraints into account. The first…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Lukas Markolf , Olaf Stursberg