Hamilton-jacobi reachability: A brief overview and recent advances

S Bansal, M Chen, S Herbert… - 2017 IEEE 56th Annual …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis is an important formal verification method for
guaranteeing performance and safety properties of dynamical systems; it has been applied …

Hamilton–jacobi reachability: Some recent theoretical advances and applications in unmanned airspace management

M Chen, CJ Tomlin - Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Autonomous systems are becoming pervasive in everyday life, and many of these systems
are complex and safety-critical. Formal verification is important for providing performance …

Decomposition of reachable sets and tubes for a class of nonlinear systems

M Chen, SL Herbert, MS Vashishtha… - … on Automatic Control, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Lagrangian methods for approximating the viability kernel in high-dimensional systems

JN Maidens, S Kaynama, IM Mitchell, MMK Oishi… - Automatica, 2013 - Elsevier
While a number of Lagrangian algorithms to approximate reachability in dozens or even
hundreds of dimensions for systems with linear dynamics have recently appeared in the …

Computationally efficient fail-safe trajectory planning for self-driving vehicles using convex optimization

C Pek, M Althoff - 2018 21st International Conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ensuring the safety of self-driving vehicles is a challenging task, especially if other traffic
participants severely deviate from the predicted behavior. One solution is to ensure that the …

Digital behavioral twins for safe connected cars

X Chen, E Kang, S Shiraishi, VM Preciado… - Proceedings of the 21th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Driving is a social activity which involves endless interactions with other agents on the road.
Failing to locate these agents and predict their possible future actions may result in serious …

Computing the drivable area of autonomous road vehicles in dynamic road scenes

S Söntges, M Althoff - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an algorithm for overapproximating the drivable area of road vehicles in
the presence of time-varying obstacles. The drivable area can be used to detect whether a …

Concurrent learning-based adaptive control of an uncertain robot manipulator with guaranteed safety and performance

C Li, F Liu, Y Wang, M Buss - IEEE Transactions on Systems …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates the tracking problem of an uncertain-link robot manipulator with
guaranteed safety and performance. To tackle parametric uncertainties, the torque filtering …

Planning, fast and slow: A framework for adaptive real-time safe trajectory planning

D Fridovich-Keil, SL Herbert, JF Fisac… - … on Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motion planning is an extremely well-studied problem in the robotics community, yet existing
work largely falls into one of two categories: computationally efficient but with few if any …

Backward reachability analysis of neural feedback loops: Techniques for linear and nonlinear systems

N Rober, SM Katz, C Sidrane, E Yel… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As neural networks (NNs) become more prevalent in safety-critical applications such as
control of vehicles, there is a growing need to certify that systems with NN components are …