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A computational approach is developed for the design of continuous low thrust transfers in the planar circular restricted three-body problem. The transfer design method of invariant manifolds is extended with the addition of continuous low…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-12 Shankar Kulumani , Taeyoung Lee

In this paper, we propose reachability analysis using constrained polynomial logical zonotopes. We perform reachability analysis to compute the set of states that could be reached. To do this, we utilize a recently introduced set…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Ahmad Hafez , Frank J. Jiang , Karl H. Johansson , Amr Alanwar

Hybrid zonotopes generalize constrained zonotopes by introducing additional binary variables and possess some unique properties that make them convenient to represent nonconvex sets. This paper presents novel hybrid zonotope-based methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Yuhao Zhang , Xiangru Xu

This paper addresses a fundamental challenge in data-driven reachability analysis: accurately representing and propagating non-convex reachable sets. We propose a novel approach using constrained polynomial zonotopes to describe reachable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Zhen Zhang , M. Umar B. Niazi , Michelle S. Chong , Karl H. Johansson , Amr Alanwar

This paper presents a method to determine the reachable set (RS) of spacecraft after a single velocity impulse with an arbitrary direction, which is appropriate for the RS in both the state and observation spaces under arbitrary dynamics,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-18 Xingyu Zhou , Roberto Armellin , Dong Qiao , Xiangyu Li

Reachability analysis provides formal guarantees for performance and safety properties of nonlinear control systems. Here, one aims to compute the backward reachable set (BRS) or tube (BRT) -- the set of states from which the system can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Mo Chen , Sylvia L. Herbert , Mahesh S. Vashishtha , Somil Bansal , Claire J. Tomlin

This work presents a method of efficiently computing inner and outer approximations of forward reachable sets for nonlinear control systems with changed dynamics and diminished control authority, given an a priori computed reachable set for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Hamza El-Kebir , Ani Pirosmanishvili , Melkior Ornik

Context: The Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem provides a fundamental framework for understanding resonant dynamics in binary star systems. Aims: We develop a unified Hamiltonian formulation for mean-motion resonances that encompasses…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta

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

This paper presents identities for calculating over-approximated successor sets of discrete-time nonlinear systems using hybrid zonotopes. The proposed technique extends the state-update set construct, previously developed for linear hybrid…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Jacob A. Siefert , Trevor J. Bird , Justin P. Koeln , Neera Jain , Herschel C. Pangborn

Backward reachability analysis is essential to synthesizing controllers that ensure the correctness of closed-loop systems. This paper is concerned with developing scalable algorithms that under-approximate the backward reachable sets, for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-29 Liren Yang , Hang Zhang , Jean-Baptiste Jeannin , Necmiye Ozay

Data-driven reachability analysis using matrix zonotopes faces a fundamental challenge: the number of generators in the reachable set grows exponentially during propagation, while current order reduction yields overly conservative…

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

This paper develops a robust estimation framework for cislunar navigation that embeds the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem (CR3BP) dynamics and bearing-only optical measurements within a Linear Fractional Transformation (LFT)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Raktim Bhattacharya

Inner-approximate reachability analysis involves calculating subsets of reachable sets, known as inner-approximations. This analysis is crucial in the fields of dynamic systems analysis and control theory as it provides a reliable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-22 Dejin Ren , Zhen Liang , Chenyu Wu , Jianqiang Ding , Taoran Wu , Bai Xue

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

Under-approximations of reachable sets and tubes have been receiving growing research attention due to their important roles in control synthesis and verification. Available under-approximation methods applicable to continuous-time linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-15 Mohamed Serry , Jun Liu

The proposal of increasingly complex and innovative space endeavours poses growing demands for mission designers. In order to meet the established requirements and constraints while maintaining a low fuel cost, the use of low-energy…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-09 Rita Neves

Determining the reachable set for a given nonlinear control system is crucial for system control and planning. However, computing such a set is impossible if the system's dynamics are not fully known. This paper is motivated by a scenario…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-26 Taha Shafa , Melkior Ornik

The design of transfers to periodic orbits in the Earth-Moon system has regained prominence with NASA's Artemis and CNSA's Chang'e programs. This work addresses the problem of linking ballistic capture trajectories - exploiting multi-body…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-09 Lorenzo Anoè , Roberto Armellin , Jack Yarndley , Thomas Caleb , Stéphanie Lizy-Destrez

This paper is concerned with identifying linear system dynamics without the knowledge of individual system trajectories, but from the knowledge of the system's reachable sets observed at different times. Motivated by a scenario where the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-11 Taha Shafa , Roy Dong , Melkior Ornik