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The synthesis of robust invariant sets for nonlinear systems has traditionally been hindered by the inherent non convexity and a strict reliance on exact analytical models. This paper presents a purely data-driven framework to compute…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Sahand Kiani , Constantino M. Lagoa

Backward reachability analysis is essential to synthesizing controllers that ensure the correctness of closed-loop systems. This paper is concerned with developing scalable algorithms that under-approximate the backward reachable sets, for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-29 Liren Yang , Hang Zhang , Jean-Baptiste Jeannin , Necmiye Ozay

Efficiently handling time-triggered and possibly nondeterministic switches for hybrid systems reachability is a challenging task. In this paper we present an approach based on conservative set-based enclosure of the dynamics that can handle…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-07 Marcelo Forets , Daniel Freire , Christian Schilling

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

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

Feedforward neural networks are widely used in autonomous systems, particularly for control and perception tasks within the system loop. However, their vulnerability to adversarial attacks necessitates formal verification before deployment…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Yuhao Zhang , Xiangru Xu

This paper presents a robust data-driven controller design based on the noisy input-output data without assumptions on the statistical properties of the noises. We start with the direct data-representation of system models that take…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Chin-Yao Chang , Andrey Bernstein

Robust model predictive control algorithms are essential for addressing unavoidable errors due to the uncertainty in predicting real-world systems. However, the formulation of such algorithms typically results in a trade-off between…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Moritz Heinlein , Sankaranarayanan Subramanian , Sergio Lucia

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

This work presents a method of efficiently computing inner and outer approximations of forward reachable sets for nonlinear control systems with changed dynamics and diminished control authority, given an a priori computed reachable set for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Hamza El-Kebir , Ani Pirosmanishvili , Melkior Ornik

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

In this paper we propose a data-driven distributionally robust Model Predictive Control framework for constrained stochastic systems with unbounded additive disturbances. Recursive feasibility is ensured by optimizing over an linearly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Christoph Mark , Steven Liu

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

Data-driven reachability analysis using matrix zonotopes faces a fundamental challenge: the number of generators in the reachable set grows exponentially during propagation, while current order reduction yields overly conservative…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Peng Xie , Amr Alanwar

In recent years, advanced model-based and data-driven control methods are unlocking the potential of complex robotics systems, and we can expect this trend to continue at an exponential rate in the near future. However, ensuring safety with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Gianni Lunardi , Asia La Rocca , Matteo Saveriano , Andrea Del Prete

This paper proposes an algorithm capable of driving a system to follow a piecewise linear trajectory without prior knowledge of the system dynamics. Motivated by a critical failure scenario in which a system can experience an abrupt change…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Taha Shafa , Yiming Meng , Melkior Ornik

Reachability analysis provides formal guarantees for performance and safety properties of nonlinear control systems. Here, one aims to compute the backward reachable set (BRS) or tube (BRT) -- the set of states from which the system can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Mo Chen , Sylvia L. Herbert , Mahesh S. Vashishtha , Somil Bansal , Claire J. Tomlin

In this paper, we present a data-driven framework for real-time estimation of reachable sets for control systems where the plant is modeled using neural networks (NNs). We utilize a running example of a quadrotor model that is learned using…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Omanshu Thapliyal , Inseok Hwang

Determining the reachable set for a given nonlinear control system is crucial for system control and planning. However, computing such a set is impossible if the system's dynamics are not fully known. This paper is motivated by a scenario…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-26 Taha Shafa , Melkior Ornik

This paper introduces zonoLAB, a MATLAB-based toolbox for set-based control system analysis using the hybrid zonotope set representation. Hybrid zonotopes have proven to be an expressive set representation that can exactly represent the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Justin Koeln , Trevor J. Bird , Jacob Siefert , Justin Ruths , Herschel Pangborn , Neera Jain