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The Hopf formula for Hamilton-Jacobi reachability (HJR) analysis has been proposed to solve high-dimensional differential games, producing the set of initial states and corresponding controller required to reach (or avoid) a target despite…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Will Sharpless , Nikhil Shinde , Matthew Kim , Yat Tin Chow , Sylvia Herbert

Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability (HJR) is a popular method for analyzing the liveness and safety of a dynamical system with bounded control and disturbance. The corresponding HJ value function offers a robust controller and characterizes the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Will Sharpless , Yat Tin Chow , Sylvia Herbert

Hamilton-Jacobi reachability (HJR) is an exciting framework used for control of safety-critical systems with nonlinear and possibly uncertain dynamics. However, HJR suffers from the curse of dimensionality, with computation times growing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Dylan Hirsch , Sylvia Herbert

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability is a method that provides rigorous analyses of the safety properties of dynamical systems. This method has been successfully applied to many low-dimensional dynamical system models such as coarse models of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Mo Chen , Sylvia Herbert , Claire J. Tomlin

Hybrid dynamical systems with nonlinear dynamics are one of the most general modeling tools for representing robotic systems, especially contact-rich systems. However, providing guarantees regarding the safety or performance of nonlinear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Javier Borquez , Shuang Peng , Yiyu Chen , Quan Nguyen , Somil Bansal

Providing formal safety and performance guarantees for autonomous systems is becoming increasingly important. Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis is a popular formal verification tool for providing these guarantees, since it can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Albert Lin , Somil Bansal

Recent literature has proposed approaches that learn control policies with high performance while maintaining safety guarantees. Synthesizing Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachable sets has become an effective tool for verifying safety and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Milan Ganai , Sicun Gao , Sylvia Herbert

With the recent surge of interest in using robotics and automation for civil purposes, providing safety and performance guarantees has become extremely important. In the past, differential games have been successfully used for the analysis…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Mo Chen , Sylvia Herbert , Claire J. Tomlin

Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability (HJR) analysis has been successfully used in many robotics and control tasks, and is especially effective in computing reach-avoid sets and control laws that enable an agent to reach a goal while satisfying…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zheng Gong , Boyang Li , Sylvia Herbert

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis has been developed over the past decades into a widely-applicable tool for determining goal satisfaction and safety verification in nonlinear systems. While HJ reachability can be formulated very…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Vicenc Rubies-Royo , David Fridovich-Keil , Sylvia Herbert , Claire J. Tomlin

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis is an important formal verification method for guaranteeing performance and safety properties of dynamical control systems. Its advantages include compatibility with general nonlinear system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Somil Bansal , Claire Tomlin

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis is an important formal verification method for guaranteeing performance and safety properties of dynamical systems; it has been applied to many small-scale systems in the past decade. Its…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Somil Bansal , Mo Chen , Sylvia Herbert , Claire J. Tomlin

This article presents a Hamilton--Jacobi (HJ) reachability framework for a two--satellite collision avoidance problem operating in the same circular orbit, where relative motion is modeled in the radial--tangential--normal (RTN) frame using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Larry Hui , Jordan Kam , William Su , Jianshu Zhou

Ensuring the safety of autonomous systems under uncertainty is a critical challenge. Hamilton-Jacobi reachability (HJR) analysis is a widely used method for guaranteeing safety under worst-case disturbances. In this work, we propose HJRNO,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yankai Li , Mo Chen

Autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) must navigate safely in cluttered environments while accounting for complex dynamics and environmental uncertainty. Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability (HJR) offers formal safety guarantees through the computation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Granthik Halder , Rudrashis Majumder , Rakshith M R , Rahi Shah , Suresh Sundaram

A new framework for formulating reachability problems with competing inputs, nonlinear dynamics and state constraints as optimal control problems is developed. Such reach-avoid problems arise in, among others, the study of safety problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-11-25 Kostas Margellos , John Lygeros

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis is a widely used method for ensuring the safety of robotic systems. Traditional approaches compute reachable sets by numerically solving an HJ Partial Differential Equation (PDE) over a grid, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Zeyuan Feng , Le Qiu , Somil Bansal

Traditional reachability methods provide formal guarantees of safety under bounded disturbances. However, they strictly enforce state constraints as inviolable, which can result in overly conservative or infeasible solutions in complex…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Chams Eddine Mballo , Donggun Lee , Claire J. Tomlin

Reachability analysis is important for studying optimal control problems and differential games, which are powerful theoretical tools for analyzing and modeling many practical problems in robotics, aircraft control, among other application…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-22 Mo Chen , Claire J. Tomlin

Reach-avoid (RA) games have significant applications in security and defense, particularly for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). These problems are inherently challenging due to the need to consider obstacles, consider the adversarial nature…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Minh Bui , Simon Monckton , Mo Chen
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