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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 addresses the conservatism in data-driven reachability analysis for discrete-time linear systems subject to bounded process noise, where the system matrices are unknown and only input--state trajectory data are available.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Peng Xie , Davide M. Raimondo , Rolf Findeisen , Amr Alanwar

We present an approach to approximate reachable sets for linear systems with bounded L-infinity controls in finite time. Our first approach investigates the boundaries of these sets and reveals an exact characterization for single-input,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Steven Nguyen , Jorge Cortés , Boris Kramer

Reachability analysis is an important method in providing safety guarantees for systems with unknown or uncertain dynamics. Due to the computational intractability of exact reachability analysis for general nonlinear, high-dimensional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Elizabeth Dietrich , Rosalyn Devonport , Stephen Tu , Murat Arcak

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

This paper over-approximates the reachable sets of a continuous-time uncertain system using the sensitivity of its trajectories with respect to initial conditions and uncertain parameters. We first prove the equivalence between an existing…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Pierre-Jean Meyer , Samuel Coogan , Murat Arcak

This paper presents a novel algorithm for reachability analysis of nonlinear discrete-time systems. The proposed method combines constrained zonotopes (CZs) with polyhedral relaxations of factorable representations of nonlinear functions to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-17 Brenner S. Rego , Guilherme V. Raffo , Marco H. Terra , Joseph K. Scott

There has been an increasing interest in using neural networks in closed-loop control systems to improve performance and reduce computational costs for on-line implementation. However, providing safety and stability guarantees for these…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 Haimin Hu , Mahyar Fazlyab , Manfred Morari , George J. Pappas

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

Over-approximating the forward reach sets of controlled dynamical systems subject to set-valued uncertainties is a common practice in systems-control engineering for the purpose of performance verification. However, specific algebraic and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Shadi Haddad , Abhishek Halder

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 paper introduces two mechanisms for computing over-approximations of sets of reachable states, with the aim of ensuring termination of state-space exploration. The first mechanism consists in over-approximating the automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-27 Alois Dreyfus , Pierre-Cyrille Heam , Olga Kouchnarenko

Reachable set computation is an important tool for analyzing control systems. Simulating a control system can show general trends, but a formal tool like reachability analysis can provide guarantees of correctness. Reachability analysis for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-07 Chelsea Sidrane , Jana Tumova

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

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

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

Approximating the set of reachable states of a dynamical system is an algorithmic yet mathematically rigorous way to reason about its safety. Although progress has been made in the development of efficient algorithms for affine dynamical…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Sergiy Bogomolov , Marcelo Forets , Goran Frehse , Andreas Podelski , Christian Schilling , Frédéric Viry

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

We propose an approach to compute inner and outer-approximations of the sets of values satisfying constraints expressed as arbitrarily quantified formulas. Such formulas arise for instance when specifying important problems in control such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 Eric Goubault , Sylvie Putot

The focus in this paper is interior-point methods for bound-constrained nonlinear optimization, where the system of nonlinear equations that arise are solved with Newton's method. There is a trade-off between solving Newton systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-04 David Ek , Anders Forsgren