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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…

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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…

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Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis is a widely adopted verification tool to provide safety and performance guarantees for autonomous systems. However, it involves solving a partial differential equation (PDE) to compute a safety…

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With the continuous advancement in autonomous systems, it becomes crucial to provide robust safety guarantees for safety-critical systems. Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability Analysis is a formal verification method that guarantees performance and…

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Learning-based approaches for controlling safety-critical systems are rapidly growing in popularity; thus, it is important to assure their performance and safety. Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis is a popular formal verification…

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Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability provides formal safety guarantees for dynamical systems, but solving high-dimensional HJ partial differential equations limits its use in real-time planning. This paper presents a contingency-aware…

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Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability provides formal safety guarantees for nonlinear systems. However, it becomes computationally intractable in high-dimensional settings, motivating learning-based approximations that may introduce unsafe…

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We present a simple algorithm to approximate the viscosity solution of Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equations by means of an artificial deep neural network. The algorithm uses a stochastic gradient descent-based method to minimize the least square…

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Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs (HJI) reachability analysis is a powerful tool for analyzing the safety of autonomous systems. This analysis is computationally intensive and typically performed offline. Online, however, the autonomous system may…

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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…

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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

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

Safety assurance is a critical yet challenging aspect when developing self-driving technologies. Hamilton-Jacobi backward-reachability analysis is a formal verification tool for verifying the safety of dynamic systems in the presence of…

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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,…

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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

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis provides a formal method for guaranteeing safety in constrained control problems. It synthesizes a value function to represent a long-term safe set called feasible region. Early synthesis methods…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-01 Yujie Yang , Hanjiang Hu , Tianhao Wei , Shengbo Eben Li , Changliu Liu

We propose a novel formulation for approximating reachable sets through a minimum discounted reward optimal control problem. The formulation yields a continuous solution that can be obtained by solving a Hamilton-Jacobi equation.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Anayo K. Akametalu , Shromona Ghosh , Jaime F. Fisac , Claire J. Tomlin

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

Recent approaches to leveraging deep learning for computing reachable sets of continuous-time dynamical systems have gained popularity over traditional level-set methods, as they overcome the curse of dimensionality. However, as with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Prashant Solanki , Nikolaus Vertovec , Yannik Schnitzer , Jasper Van Beers , Coen de Visser , Alessandro Abate

Autonomous systems like aircraft and assistive robots often operate in scenarios where guaranteeing safety is critical. Methods like Hamilton-Jacobi reachability can provide guaranteed safe sets and controllers for such systems. However,…

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