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Computing tight over-approximation of reach sets of a controlled uncertain dynamical system is a common practice in verification of safety-critical cyber-physical systems (CPS). While several algorithms are available for this purpose, they…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-16 Shadi Haddad , Abhishek Halder

Mixed-monotone systems are separable via a decomposition function into increasing and decreasing components, and this decomposition function allows for embedding the system dynamics in a higher-order monotone embedding system. Embedding the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 Matthew Abate , Samuel Coogan

Estimating the reachable set of a dynamical system is a fundamental problem in control theory, particularly when control inputs are bounded. Direct simulation using randomly sampled admissible controls often leads to trajectories that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Sachin Shivakumar

We present a real-time-capable set-based framework for closed-loop predictive control of autonomous systems using tools from computational geometry, dynamic programming, and convex optimization. The control architecture relies on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Abhinav G. Kamath , Abraham P. Vinod , Purnanand Elango , Stefano Di Cairano , Avishai Weiss

Robust control problems have significant practical implications since external disturbances can significantly impact the performance of control methods. Existing robust control methods excel at control-affine systems but fail at neural…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Huixuan Cheng , Hanjiang Hu , Changliu Liu

The problem of computing the reachable set for a given system is a quintessential question in nonlinear control theory. While previous work has yielded a plethora of approximate and analytical methods for determining such a set, these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Melkior Ornik

In this paper, we propose a computationally efficient framework for interval reachability of systems with neural network controllers. Our approach leverages inclusion functions for the open-loop system and the neural network controller to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Saber Jafarpour , Akash Harapanahalli , Samuel Coogan

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

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

For hybrid systems exhibiting periodic behavior, analyzing the invariant set containing the limit cycle is a natural way to study the robustness of the closed-loop system. However, computing these sets can be computationally expensive,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Varun Madabushi , Akash Harapanahalli , Samuel Coogan , Maegan Tucker

Reachable set computation is an important technique for the verification of safety properties of dynamical systems. In this paper, we investigate reachable set computation for discrete nonlinear systems based on parallelotope bundles. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-08 Edward Kim , Stanley Bak , Parasara Sridhar Duggirala

In this work, we perform safety analysis of linear dynamical systems with uncertainties. Instead of computing a conservative overapproximation of the reachable set, our approach involves computing a statistical approximate reachable set. As…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-17 Bineet Ghosh , Parasara Sridhar Duggirala

Determining the reachable set for a given nonlinear system is critically important for autonomous trajectory planning for reach-avoid applications and safety critical scenarios. Providing the reachable set is generally impossible when the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Taha Shafa , Melkior Ornik

Reachable sets for a dynamical system describe collections of system states that can be reached in finite time, subject to system dynamics. They can be used to guarantee goal satisfaction in controller design or to verify that unsafe…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Vincent Liu , Chris Manzie , Peter M. Dower

In order to develop provably safe human-in-the-loop systems, accurate and precise models of human behavior must be developed. In the case of intelligent vehicles, one can imagine the need for predicting driver behavior to develop minimally…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Katherine Driggs-Campbell , Roy Dong , S. Shankar Sastry , Ruzena Bajcsy

This paper presents a method for incorporating control analysis into design optimization for highly-maneuverable aircraft. By studying reachable sets for aircraft dynamics, we ensure that the optimizer will take the aircraft's controlled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Steven Nguyen , Nicholas Orndorff , Jorge Cortés , Boris Kramer

We present a method of computing backward reachable sets for nonlinear discrete-time control systems possessing continuous symmetries. The starting point is a dynamic game formulation of reachability analysis where control inputs aim to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-01-30 John Maidens , Murat Arcak

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

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

This article deals with stochastic processes endowed with the Markov (memoryless) property and evolving over general (uncountable) state spaces. The models further depend on a non-deterministic quantity in the form of a control input, which…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Sofie Haesaert , Robert Babuska , Alessandro Abate