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This paper studies the informativity problem for reachability and null-controllability of constrained systems. To be precise, we will focus on an unknown linear systems with convex conic constraints from which we measure data consisting of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-03 Jaap Eising , M. Kanat Camlibel

We derive a closed form description of the convex hull of mixed-integer bilinear covering set with bounds on the integer variables. This convex hull description is determined by considering some orthogonal disjunctive sets defined in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Hamidur Rahman , Ashutosh Mahajan

We consider finite horizon reach-avoid problems for discrete time stochastic systems. Our goal is to construct upper bound functions for the reach-avoid probability by means of tractable convex optimization problems. We achieve this by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Nikolaos Kariotoglou , Maryam Kamgarpour , Tyler H. Summers , John Lygeros

We derive computationally tractable formulations of the robust counterparts of convex quadratic and conic quadratic constraints that are concave in matrix-valued uncertain parameters. We do this for a broad range of uncertainty sets. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-07 Ahmadreza Marandi , Aharon Ben-Tal , Dick den Hertog , Bertrand Melenberg

In this article, a new solution for the convex hull problem has been presented. The convex hull is a widely known problem in computational geometry. As nature is a rich source of ideas in the field of algorithms, the solution has been…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Sina Saadati , Mohammadreza Razzazi

This paper poses a theoretical characterization of the stochastic reachability problem in terms of probability measures, capturing the probability measure of the state of the system that satisfies the reachability specification for all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Karthik Sivaramakrishnan , Vignesh Sivaramakrishnan , Rosalyn Alex Devonport , Meeko M. K. Oishi

We present an algorithm for robust model predictive control with consideration of uncertainty and safety constraints. Our framework considers a nonlinear dynamical system subject to disturbances from an unknown but bounded uncertainty set.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-23 Dongchan Lee , Konstantin Turitsyn , Jean-Jacques Slotine

We develop and analyze the HulC, an intuitive and general method for constructing confidence sets using the convex hull of estimates constructed from subsets of the data. Unlike classical methods which are based on estimating the (limiting)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla , Sivaraman Balakrishnan , Larry Wasserman

We propose finitely convergent methods for solving convex feasibility problems defined over a possibly infinite pool of constraints. Following other works in this area, we assume that the interior of the solution set is nonempty and that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Victor I. Kolobov , Simeon Reich , Rafał Zalas

Reachability analysis, in general, is a fundamental method that supports formally-correct synthesis, robust model predictive control, set-based observers, fault detection, invariant computation, and conformance checking, to name but a few.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Niklas Kochdumper , Bastian Schürmann , Matthias Althoff

This paper studies and bounds the effects of approximating loss functions and credal sets on choice functions, under very weak assumptions. In particular, the credal set is assumed to be neither convex nor closed. The main result is that…

Computation · Statistics 2012-03-06 Matthias C. M. Troffaes

In this work, we perform safety analysis of linear dynamical systems with uncertainties. Instead of computing a conservative overapproximation of the reachable set, our approach involves computing a statistical approximate reachable set. As…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-17 Bineet Ghosh , Parasara Sridhar Duggirala

In this work, we propose a new framework for reachable set computation through continuous evolution of a set of parameters and offsets which define a parametope, through the intersection of constraints. This results in a dynamical approach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Akash Harapanahalli , Samuel Coogan

Necessary and sufficient conditions for convexity and strong convexity, respectively, of sublevel sets that are defined by finitely many real-valued $C^{1,1}$-maps are presented. A novel characterization of strongly convex sets in terms of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Alexander Weber , Gunther Reissig

We study the set of solutions to a parameterized, strongly convex optimization problem whose cost depends on uncertain, bounded parameters. We compute a certified outer approximation of the corresponding set of optimizers, using convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Brendan Gould , Chih-Yuan Chiu , Antoine P. Leeman , Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis , Samuel Coogan , Glen Chou

Geometric hitting set problems, in which we seek a smallest set of points that collectively hit a given set of ranges, are ubiquitous in computational geometry. Most often, the set is discrete and is given explicitly. We propose new…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Jean Cardinal , Xavier Goaoc , Sarah Wajsbrot

This paper studies reachability and null-controllability for difference inclusions involving convex processes. Such difference inclusions arise, for instance, in the study of linear discrete-time systems whose inputs and/or states are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Jaap Eising , M. Kanat Camlibel

We propose a method to outer bound forward reachable sets on finite horizons for uncertain nonlinear systems with polynomial dynamics. This method makes use of time-dependent polynomial storage functions that satisfy appropriate dissipation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-18 He Yin , Andrew Packard , Murat Arcak , Peter Seiler

This paper studies the set of terminal state covariances that are reachable over a finite time horizon from a given initial state covariance for a linear stochastic system with additive noise. For discrete-time systems, a complete…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Fengjiao Liu , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Convex hulls are useful as tight bounding proxies for a variety of tasks including collision detection, ray intersection, and distance computation. Unfortunately, the complexity of polyhedral convex hulls grows linearly with their input. We…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Alec Jacobson