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eess.SY2026

Moving Horizon Estimation of Hybrid Systems Using Hybrid Zonotopes and Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programs

Jonah J. Glunt, Herschel C. Pangborn

Moving horizon estimation (MHE) is an estimation technique that formulates an optimization problem over a past horizon to find the states that require the minimum disturbances and…

eess.SY2026

Graph-Based Modeling, Control, and Optimization for Multi-Domain and Multi-Timescale Energy Systems

Joseph M. Pisani, Christopher T. Aksland, Philip M. Renkert +7

Modern energy systems in vehicles and built infrastructure are governed by high-dimensional dynamics spanning multiple physical domains (e.g., electrical, thermal, mechanical) and…

eess.SY2026

Motion Planning with Metric Temporal Logic Using Reachability Analysis and Hybrid Zonotopes

Andrew F. Thompson, Joshua A. Robbins, Jonah J. Glunt +2

Metric temporal logic (MTL) provides a formal framework for defining time-dependent mission requirements on autonomous vehicles. However, optimizing control decisions subject to th…

eess.SY2025

Shared Situational Awareness Using Hybrid Zonotopes with Confidence Metric

Vandana Narri, Jonah J. Glunt, Joshua A. Robbins +3

Situational awareness for connected and automated vehicles describes the ability to perceive and predict the behavior of other road-users in the near surroundings. However, pedestr…

eess.SY2025

Bi-level Model Predictive Control for Energy-aware Integrated Product Pricing and Production Scheduling

Hongliang Li, Herschel C. Pangborn, Ilya Kovalenko

The manufacturing industry is under growing pressure to enhance sustainability while preserving economic competitiveness. As a result, manufacturers have been trying to determine h…

eess.SY2025

Integration of a Graph-Based Path Planner and Mixed-Integer MPC for Robot Navigation in Cluttered Environments

Joshua A. Robbins, Stephen J. Harnett, Andrew F. Thompson +2

The ability to update a path plan is a required capability for autonomous mobile robots navigating through uncertain environments. This paper proposes a re-planning strategy using…

eess.SY2025

Sparsity-Promoting Reachability Analysis and Optimization of Constrained Zonotopes

Joshua A. Robbins, Jacob A. Siefert, Herschel C. Pangborn

The constrained zonotope is a polytopic set representation widely used for set-based analysis and control of dynamic systems. This paper develops methods to formulate and solve opt…

eess.SY2025

Automated Functional Decomposition for Hybrid Zonotope Over-approximations with Application to LSTM Networks

Jonah J. Glunt, Jacob A. Siefert, Andrew F. Thompson +2

Functional decomposition is a powerful tool for systems analysis because it can reduce a function of arbitrary input dimensions to the sum and superposition of functions of a singl…

eess.SY2025★ 2 cited

Sharp Hybrid Zonotopes: Set Operations and the Reformulation-linearization Technique

Jonah J. Glunt, Joshua A. Robbins, Jacob A. Siefert +2

Mixed integer set representations, and specifically hybrid zonotopes, have enabled new techniques for reachability and verification of nonlinear and hybrid systems. Mixed-integer s…

eess.SY2024

Energy-Aware Predictive Motion Planning for Autonomous Vehicles Using a Hybrid Zonotope Constraint Representation

Joshua A. Robbins, Andrew F. Thompson, Sean Brennan +1

Uncrewed aerial systems have tightly coupled energy and motion dynamics which must be accounted for by onboard planning algorithms. This work proposes a strategy for coupled motion…

eess.SY2024★ 3 cited

Mixed-Integer MPC-Based Motion Planning Using Hybrid Zonotopes with Tight Relaxations

Joshua A. Robbins, Jacob A. Siefert, Sean Brennan +1

Autonomous vehicle (AV) motion planning problems often involve non-convex constraints, which present a major barrier to applying model predictive control (MPC) in real time on embe…

eess.SY2024★ 1 cited

Learning Networked Dynamical System Models with Weak Form and Graph Neural Networks

Yin Yu, Daning Huang, Seho Park +1

This paper presents a sequence of two approaches for the data-driven control-oriented modeling of networked systems, i.e., the systems that involve many interacting dynamical compo…

eess.SY2024

Error Bounds for Compositions of Piecewise Affine Approximations

Jonah J. Glunt, Jacob A. Siefert, Andrew F. Thompson +1

Nonlinear expressions are often approximated by piecewise affine (PWA) functions to simplify analysis or reduce computational costs. To reduce computational complexity, multivariat…

eess.SY2023

A Set-Based Approach for Robust Control Co-Design

Trevor J. Bird, Jacob A. Siefert, Herschel C. Pangborn +1

Control Co-Design (CCD) considers the coupled effects of both the plant and control parameters to optimize a system's closed-loop transient performance during the design stage. Thi…

eess.SY2023

zonoLAB: A MATLAB toolbox for set-based control systems analysis using hybrid zonotopes

Justin Koeln, Trevor J. Bird, Jacob Siefert +3

This paper introduces zonoLAB, a MATLAB-based toolbox for set-based control system analysis using the hybrid zonotope set representation. Hybrid zonotopes have proven to be an expr…

eess.SY2023

A System-Level Energy-Efficient Digital Twin Framework for Runtime Control of Batch Manufacturing Processes

Hongliang Li, Herschel C. Pangborn, Ilya Kovalenko

The manufacturing sector has a substantial influence on worldwide energy consumption. Therefore, improving manufacturing system energy efficiency is becoming increasingly important…

eess.SY2023

Set-valued State Estimation for Nonlinear Systems Using Hybrid Zonotopes

Jacob A. Siefert, Andrew F. Thompson, Jonah J. Glunt +1

This paper proposes a method for set-valued state estimation of nonlinear, discrete-time systems. This is achieved by combining graphs of functions representing system dynamics and…

eess.SY2023★ 5 cited

Reachability Analysis Using Hybrid Zonotopes and Functional Decomposition

Jacob A. Siefert, Trevor J. Bird, Andrew F. Thompson +4

This paper proposes methods for reachability analysis of nonlinear systems in both open loop and closed loop with advanced controllers. The methods combine hybrid zonotopes, a cons…

eess.SY2022

Successor Sets of Discrete-time Nonlinear Systems Using Hybrid Zonotopes

Jacob A. Siefert, Trevor J. Bird, Justin P. Koeln +2

This paper presents identities for calculating over-approximated successor sets of discrete-time nonlinear systems using hybrid zonotopes. The proposed technique extends the state-…

eess.SY2021★ 4 cited

Hybrid zonotopes: a new set representation for reachability analysis of mixed logical dynamical systems

Trevor J. Bird, Herschel C. Pangborn, Neera Jain +1

This article presents a new set representation named the hybrid zonotope that is equivalent to the union of constrained zonotopes -- convex polytopes -- through the addition…

eess.SY2021★ 22 cited

Robust Control Co-Design with Receding-Horizon MPC

Austin L. Nash, Herschel C. Pangborn, Neera Jain

Control co-design (CCD) is a technique for improving the closed-loop performance of systems through the coordinated design of both plant parameters and an optimal control policy. W…