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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

We study the verification problem for closed-loop dynamical systems with neural-network controllers (NNCS). This problem is commonly reduced to computing the set of reachable states. When considering dynamical systems and neural networks in…

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

This paper investigates reachability analysis for max-plus linear systems (MPLS), an important class of dynamical systems that model synchronization and delay phenomena in timed discrete-event systems. We specifically focus on backward…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Yuda Li , Shaoyuan Li , Xiang Yin

In the scope of discrete finite-state models of interacting components, we present a novel algorithm for identifying sets of local states of components whose activity is necessary for the reachability of a given local state. If all the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-07-15 Loïc Paulevé , Geoffroy Andrieux , Heinz Koeppl

The zonotope containment problem, i.e., whether one zonotope is contained in another, is a central problem in control theory. Applications include detecting faults and robustifying controllers by computing invariant sets, and obtain fixed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Adrian Kulmburg , Lukas Schäfer , Matthias Althoff

Neural Networks (NNs) can provide major empirical performance improvements for closed-loop systems, but they also introduce challenges in formally analyzing those systems' safety properties. In particular, this work focuses on estimating…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Michael Everett , Golnaz Habibi , Chuangchuang Sun , Jonathan P. How

Reachability analysis is a popular method to give safety guarantees for stochastic cyber-physical systems (SCPSs) that takes in a symbolic description of the system dynamics and uses set-propagation methods to compute an overapproximation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Navid Hashemi , Lars Lindemann , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh

We consider the problem of approximating the reachable set of a discrete-time polynomial system from a semialgebraic set of initial conditions under general semialgebraic set constraints. Assuming inclusion in a given simple set like a box…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Victor Magron , Pierre-Loic Garoche , Didier Henrion , Xavier Thirioux

This paper proposes a tractable family of remainder-form mixed-monotone decomposition functions that are useful for over-approximating the image set of nonlinear mappings in reachability and estimation problems. Our approach applies to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Mohammad Khajenejad , Sze Zheng Yong

Functional decomposition is a powerful tool for systems analysis because it can reduce a function of arbitrary input dimensions to the sum and superposition of functions of a single variable, thereby mitigating (or potentially avoiding) the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Jonah J. Glunt , Jacob A. Siefert , Andrew F. Thompson , Justin Ruths , Herschel C. Pangborn

Neural Networks (NNs) can provide major empirical performance improvements for robotic systems, but they also introduce challenges in formally analyzing those systems' safety properties. In particular, this work focuses on estimating the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-26 Michael Everett , Golnaz Habibi , Jonathan P. How

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

Scalable safety verification of continuous state dynamic systems has been demonstrated through both reachability and viability analyses using parametric set representations; however, these two analyses are not interchangable in practice for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Ian M. Mitchell , Jacob Budzis , Andriy Bolyachevets

Reachability analysis is at the core of many applications, from neural network verification, to safe trajectory planning of uncertain systems. However, this problem is notoriously challenging, and current approaches tend to be either too…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Thomas Lew , Marco Pavone

One of the most important problems in hybrid systems is the {\em reachability problem}. The reachability problem has been shown to be undecidable even for a subclass of {\em linear} hybrid systems. In view of this, the main focus in the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-09-29 D. Ravi , R. K. Shyamasundar

We present CLTLB(D), an extension of PLTLB (PLTL with both past and future operators) augmented with atomic formulae built over a constraint system D. Even for decidable constraint systems, satisfiability and Model Checking problem of such…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-04-21 Marcello M. Bersani , Achille Frigeri , Angelo Morzenti , Matteo Pradella , Matteo Rossi , Pierluigi San Pietro

This paper considers the problem of set-based state estimation for linear time-invariant (LTI) systems under time-varying sensor attacks. Provided that the LTI system is stable and observable via every single sensor and that at least one…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-17 Muhammad Umar B. Niazi , Amr Alanwar , Michelle S. Chong , Karl Henrik Johansson

We introduce a sound and complete coinductive proof system for reachability properties in transition systems generated by logically constrained term rewriting rules over an order-sorted signature modulo builtins. A key feature of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Ştefan Ciobâcă , Dorel Lucanu

Blondin et al. showed at LICS 2015 that two-dimensional vector addition systems with states have reachability witnesses of length exponential in the number of states and polynomial in the norm of vectors. The resulting guess-and-verify…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Matthias Englert , Ranko Lazić , Patrick Totzke

A sensitivity-based approach for computing over-approximations of reachable sets, in the presence of constant parameter uncertainties and a single initial state, is used to analyze a three-link planar robot modeling a Powered Lower Limb…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Octavio Narvaez-Aroche , Pierre-Jean Meyer , Murat Arcak , Andrew Packard