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Zonotopes are widely used for over-approximating forward reachable sets of uncertain linear systems for verification purposes. In this paper, we use zonotopes to achieve more scalable algorithms that under-approximate backward reachable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-18 Liren Yang , Necmiye Ozay

The increasing prevalence of neural networks in safety-critical control systems underscores the imperative need for rigorous methods to ensure the reliability and safety of these systems. This work introduces a novel approach employing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Hang Zhang , Yuhao Zhang , Xiangru Xu

This paper proposes a mechanism to fine-tune convex approximations of probabilistic reachable sets (PRS) of uncertain dynamic systems. We consider the case of unbounded uncertainties, for which it may be impossible to find a bounded…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Pengcheng Wu , Sonia Martinez , Jun Chen

Hybrid systems play a crucial role in modeling real-world applications where discrete and continuous dynamics interact, including autonomous vehicles, power systems, and traffic networks. Safety verification for these systems requires…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Peng Xie , Johannes Betz , Davide M. Raimondo , Amr Alanwar

We propose a matrix zonotope perturbation framework that leverages matrix perturbation theory to characterize how noise-induced distortions alter the dynamics within sets of models. The framework derives interpretable Cai-Zhang bounds for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Peng Xie , Abdulla Fawzy , Zhen Zhang , Amr Alanwar

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for computing robust backward reachable sets from noisy data for unknown constrained linear systems subject to bounded disturbances. In particular, we develop an algorithm for obtaining zonotopic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Mehran Attar , Walter Lucia

In this paper, we present an analytical approach for the synthesis of ellipsoidal probabilistic reachable sets of saturated systems subject to unbounded additive noise. Using convex optimization methods, we compute a contraction factor of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Carlo Karam , Matteo Tacchi-Bénard , Mirko Fiacchini

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

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

In this paper, we introduce a set representation called polynomial logical zonotopes for performing exact and computationally efficient reachability analysis on logical systems. We prove that through this polynomial-like construction, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Amr Alanwar , Frank J. Jiang , Karl H. Johansson

This paper presents new methods for set-valued state estimation of nonlinear discrete-time systems with unknown-but-bounded uncertainties. A single time step involves propagating an enclosure of the system states through the nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Brenner S. Rego , Guilherme V. Raffo , Joseph K. Scott , Davide M. Raimondo

We introduce constrained polynomial zonotopes, a novel non-convex set representation that is closed under linear map, Minkowski sum, Cartesian product, convex hull, intersection, union, and quadratic as well as higher-order maps. We show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Niklas Kochdumper , Matthias Althoff

Data-driven reachability analysis provides guaranteed outer approximations of reachable sets from input-state measurements, yet each propagation step requires a matrix-zonotope multiplication whose cost grows with the horizon length,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Zhen Zhang , Ahmad Hafez , Peng Xie , Yanliang Huang , Wenyuan Wu , Amr Alanwar

We present a method to over-approximate reachable tubes over compact time-intervals, for linear continuous-time, time-varying control systems whose initial states and inputs are subject to compact convex uncertainty. The method uses…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Mohamed Serry , Gunther Reissig

We develop a new numerical method for approximating the infinite time reachable set of strictly stable linear control systems. By solving a linear program with a constraint that incorporates the system dynamics, we compute a polytope with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Andreas Ernst , Lars Grüne , Janosch Rieger

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

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

This paper introduces zonoLAB, a MATLAB-based toolbox for set-based control system analysis using the hybrid zonotope set representation. Hybrid zonotopes have proven to be an expressive set representation that can exactly represent the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Justin Koeln , Trevor J. Bird , Jacob Siefert , Justin Ruths , Herschel Pangborn , Neera Jain

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 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