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Reachability analysis is important for studying optimal control problems and differential games, which are powerful theoretical tools for analyzing and modeling many practical problems in robotics, aircraft control, among other application…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-22 Mo Chen , Claire J. Tomlin

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

Over-approximating the reachable sets of dynamical systems is a fundamental problem in safety verification and robust control synthesis. The representation of these sets is a key factor that affects the computational complexity and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Taha Entesari , Mahyar Fazlyab

The sequential compactness afforded hybrid systems under mild regularity constraints guarantee outer/upper semicontinuous dependence of solutions on initial conditions and perturbations. For reachable sets of hybrid systems, this property…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Berk Altın , Ricardo G. Sanfelice

Hybrid automata are a natural framework for modeling and analyzing systems which exhibit a mixed discrete continuous behaviour. However, the standard operational semantics defined over such models implicitly assume perfect knowledge of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Alberto Casagrande , Tommaso Dreossi , Carla Piazza

This paper investigates one-step backward reachability for uncertain max-plus linear systems with additive disturbances. Given a target set, the problem is to compute the set of states from which there exists an admissible control input…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Yuda Li , Xiang Yin

We present the framework of delta-complete analysis for bounded reachability problems of general hybrid systems. We perform bounded reachability checking through solving delta-decision problems over the reals. The techniques take into…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Sicun Gao , Soonho Kong , Wei Chen , Edmund Clarke

In this paper we describe a new tool, SReach, which solves probabilistic bounded reachability problems for two classes of stochastic hybrid systems. The first one is (nonlinear) hybrid automata with parametric uncertainty. The second one is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-28 Qinsi Wang , Paolo Zuliani , Soonho Kong , Sicun Gao , Edmund M. Clarke

In real world applications, uncertain parameters are the rule rather than the exception. We present a reachability algorithm for linear systems with uncertain parameters and inputs using set propagation of polynomial zonotopes. In contrast…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Yushen Huang , Ertai Luo , Stanley Bak , Yifan Sun

With the recent surge of interest in using robotics and automation for civil purposes, providing safety and performance guarantees has become extremely important. In the past, differential games have been successfully used for the analysis…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Mo Chen , Sylvia Herbert , Claire J. Tomlin

This study aims at characterizing a reachable set of a hybrid dynamical system with a lag constraint in the switch control. The setting does not consider any controllability assumptions and uses a level-set approach. The approach consists…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-28 Giovanni Granato , Hasnaa Zidani

When designing optimal controllers for any system, it is often the case that the true state of the system is unknown to the controller, for example due to noisy measurements or partially observable states. Incomplete state information must…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-23 Kendra Lesser , Meeko Oishi

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

We consider the problem of proving that each point in a given set of states ("target set") can indeed be reached by a given nondeterministic continuous-time dynamical system from some initial state. We consider this problem for abstract…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Ievgen Ivanov

Efficiently handling time-triggered and possibly nondeterministic switches for hybrid systems reachability is a challenging task. In this paper we present an approach based on conservative set-based enclosure of the dynamics that can handle…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-07 Marcelo Forets , Daniel Freire , Christian Schilling

We study the convex hulls of reachable sets of nonlinear systems with bounded disturbances and uncertain initial conditions. Reachable sets play a critical role in control, but remain notoriously challenging to compute, and existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Thomas Lew , Riccardo Bonalli , Marco Pavone

We consider the problem of computing reachable sets directly from noisy data without a given system model. Several reachability algorithms are presented for different types of systems generating the data. First, an algorithm for computing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Amr Alanwar , Anne Koch , Frank Allgöwer , Karl Henrik Johansson

This paper poses a theoretical characterization of the stochastic reachability problem in terms of probability measures, capturing the probability measure of the state of the system that satisfies the reachability specification for all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Karthik Sivaramakrishnan , Vignesh Sivaramakrishnan , Rosalyn Alex Devonport , Meeko M. K. Oishi

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

Reachability analysis is an important method in providing safety guarantees for systems with unknown or uncertain dynamics. Due to the computational intractability of exact reachability analysis for general nonlinear, high-dimensional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Elizabeth Dietrich , Rosalyn Devonport , Stephen Tu , Murat Arcak