English
Related papers

Related papers: Control Synthesis for Multiple Reach-Avoid Tasks v…

200 papers

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis is a fundamental tool for the safety verification and control synthesis of nonlinear control systems. Classical HJ reachability analysis methods compute value functions over grids which discretize…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Ihab Tabbara , Eliya Badr , Hussein Sibai

In this article, we consider the infinite-horizon reach-avoid (RA) and stabilize-avoid (SA) zero-sum game problems for general nonlinear continuous-time systems, where the goal is to find the set of states that can be controlled to reach or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Boyang Li , Zheng Gong , Sylvia Herbert

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

In this paper, a method to synthesize controllers using finite time convergence control barrier functions guided by linear temporal logic specifications for continuous time multi-agent dynamical systems is proposed. Finite time convergence…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Mohit Srinivasan , Samuel Coogan , Magnus Egerstedt

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 an adversarial, time-varying test-synthesis procedure for safety-critical systems without requiring specific knowledge of the underlying controller steering the system. From a broader test and evaluation context, determination of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Prithvi Akella , Mohamadreza Ahmadi , Richard M. Murray , Aaron D. Ames

In this paper we propose sufficient conditions to synthesizing reach-avoid controllers for deterministic systems modelled by ordinary differential equations and stochastic systems modeled by stochastic differential equations based on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-01 Bai Xue

We present a method for synthesizing controllers to steer trajectories from an initial set to a target set on a finite time horizon. The proposed control synthesis problem is decomposed into two steps. The first step under-approximates the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-02 He Yin , Andrew Packard , Murat Arcak , Pete Seiler

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

In this paper we investigate the optimal controller synthesis problem, so that the system under the controller can reach a specified target set while satisfying given constraints. Existing model predictive control (MPC) methods learn from a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Dejin Ren , Wanli Lu , Jidong Lv , Lijun Zhang , Bai Xue

Digital control has become increasingly prevalent in modern systems, making continuous-time plants controlled by discrete-time (digital) controllers ubiquitous and crucial across industries, including aerospace, automotive, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Taoran Wu , Dejin Ren , Shuyuan Zhang , Lei Wang , Bai Xue

In this paper, we propose an approach for synthesizing provable reach-avoid controllers, which drive a deterministic system operating in an unknown environment to safely reach a desired target set. The approach falls within the reachability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Jianqiang Ding , Taoran Wu , Yuping Qian , Lijun Zhang , Bai Xue

We present a controller synthesis algorithm for reach-avoid problems for piecewise linear discrete-time systems. Our algorithm relies on SMT solvers and in this paper we focus on piecewise constant control strategies. Our algorithm…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Zhenqi Huang , Yu Wang , Sayan Mitra , Geir E. Dullerud , Swarat Chaudhuri

In this work, we address the issue of controller synthesis for a control-affine nonlinear system to meet prescribed time reach-avoid-stay specifications. Our goal is to improve upon previous methods based on spatiotemporal tubes (STTs) by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Siddhartha Upadhyay , Ratnangshu Das , Pushpak Jagtap

Hard constraints in reinforcement learning (RL) often degrade policy performance. Lagrangian methods offer a way to blend objectives with constraints, but require intricate reward engineering and parameter tuning. In this work, we extend…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-05 William Sharpless , Dylan Hirsch , Sander Tonkens , Nikhil Shinde , Sylvia Herbert

We study feedback controller synthesis for reach-avoid control of discrete-time, linear time-invariant (LTI) systems with Gaussian process and measurement noise. The problem is to compute a controller such that, with at least some required…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Thom Badings , Hasan A. Poonawala , Marielle Stoelinga , Nils Jansen

Timed automata (TA) is used for modeling systems with timing aspects. A TA extends a finite automaton with a set of real valued variables called clocks, that measure the time and constraints over the clocks guard the transitions. A…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Ebru Aydin Gol

The paper addresses the problem of controller synthesis for control-affine nonlinear systems to meet reach-avoid-stay specifications. Specifically, the goal of the research is to obtain a closed-form control law ensuring that the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Ratnangshu Das , Pushpak Jagtap

A reset controller plays a crucial role in designing hybrid systems. It restricts the initial set and redefines the reset map associated with discrete transitions, in order to guarantee the system to achieve its objective. Reset controller…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-29 Han Su , Jiyu Zhu , Shenghua Feng , Yunjun Bai , Bin Gu , Jiang Liu , Mengfei Yang , Naijun Zhan

We propose a signal temporal logic (STL)-based framework that rigorously verifies the feasibility of a mission described in STL and synthesizes control to safely execute it. The proposed framework ensures safe and reliable operation through…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-27 Joonwon Choi , Kartik Anand Pant , Youngim Nam , Henry Hellmann , Karthik Nune , Inseok Hwang
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›