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most citedDisturbance-Robust Backup Control Barrier Functions: Safety Under Uncertain Dynamics

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18 papers

cs.RO2026

Safe, Real-Time Active Model Discrimination and Fault Diagnosis for Nonlinear Systems via Differentiable Reachability

Xinpei Ni, Melkior Ornik, Glen Chou +1

We present a safe, real-time algorithm for active fault diagnosis and model discrimination for uncertain continuous-time nonlinear systems with process and measurement disturbances…

eess.SY2026

Output Feedback Backup Control Barrier Functions: Safety Guarantees Under Input Bounds and State Estimation Error

David E. J. van Wijk, Tamas G. Molnar, Samuel Coogan +3

Guaranteeing the safety of controllers is vital for real-world applications, but is markedly difficult when the states are not perfectly known and when the control inputs are bound…

eess.SY2026

Differentiable Invariant Sets for Hybrid Limit Cycles with Application to Legged Robots

Varun Madabushi, Akash Harapanahalli, Samuel Coogan +1

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,…

eess.SY2026

Learning Certified Neural Network Controllers Using Contraction and Interval Analysis

Akash Harapanahalli, Samuel Coogan, Alexander Davydov

We present a novel framework that jointly trains a neural network controller and a neural Riemannian metric with rigorous closed-loop contraction guarantees using formal bound prop…

math.OC2025

Efficient Norm-Based Reachable Sets via Iterative Dynamic Programming

Akash Harapanahalli, Samuel Coogan

In this work, we present a numerical optimal control framework for reachable set computation using \emph{normotopes}, a new set representation as a norm ball with a shaping matrix.…

eess.SY2025★ 1 cited

Automatic and Scalable Safety Verification using Interval Reachability with Subspace Sampling

Brendan Gould, Akash Harapanahalli, Samuel Coogan

Interval refinement is a technique for reducing the conservatism of traditional interval based reachability methods by lifting the system to a higher dimension using new auxiliary…

eess.SY2025

linrax: A JAX Compatible, Simplex Method Linear Program Solver

Brendan Gould, Akash Harapanahalli, Samuel Coogan

We present linrax, the first simplex based linear program (LP) solver compatible with the JAX ecosystem. In many control algorithms, LPs are often automatically generated and frequ…

math.OC2025

Parametric Reachable Sets Via Controlled Dynamical Embeddings

Akash Harapanahalli, Samuel Coogan

In this work, we propose a new framework for reachable set computation through continuous evolution of a set of parameters and offsets which define a parametope, through the inters…

eess.SY2025

Uncertainty Estimators for Robust Backup Control Barrier Functions

David E. J. van Wijk, Ersin Das, Anil Alan +5

Designing safe controllers is crucial and notoriously challenging for input-constrained safety-critical control systems. Backup control barrier functions offer an approach for the…

eess.SY2024

A Linear Differential Inclusion for Contraction Analysis to Known Trajectories

Akash Harapanahalli, Samuel Coogan

Infinitesimal contraction analysis provides exponential convergence rates between arbitrary pairs of trajectories of a system by studying the system's linearization. An essentially…

eess.SY2024

A Global Coordinate-Free Approach to Invariant Contraction on Homogeneous Manifolds

Akash Harapanahalli, Samuel Coogan

In this work, we provide a global condition for contraction with respect to an invariant Riemannian metric on reductive homogeneous spaces. Using left-invariant frames, vector fiel…

eess.SY2024★ 12 cited

Disturbance-Robust Backup Control Barrier Functions: Safety Under Uncertain Dynamics

David E. J. van Wijk, Samuel Coogan, Tamas G. Molnar +2

Obtaining a controlled invariant set is crucial for safety-critical control with control barrier functions (CBFs) but is non-trivial for complex nonlinear systems and constraints.…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Certified Robust Invariant Polytope Training in Neural Controlled ODEs

Akash Harapanahalli, Samuel Coogan

We propose a framework for training neural network controllers with certified robust forward invariant polytopes. First, we parameterize a family of lifted control systems in a hig…

eess.SY2024

Efficient Reachable Sets on Lie Groups Using Lie Algebra Monotonicity and Tangent Intervals

Akash Harapanahalli, Samuel Coogan

In this paper, we efficiently compute overapproximating reachable sets for control systems evolving on Lie groups, building off results from monotone systems theory and geometric i…

eess.SY2024

: A Parallelizable and Differentiable Toolbox for Interval Analysis and Mixed Monotone Reachability in JAX

Akash Harapanahalli, Saber Jafarpour, Samuel Coogan

We present an implementation of interval analysis and mixed monotone interval reachability analysis as function transforms in Python, fully composable with the computational framew…

eess.SY2023

A Contracting Dynamical System Perspective toward Interval Markov Decision Processes

Saber Jafarpour, Samuel Coogan

Interval Markov decision processes are a class of Markov models where the transition probabilities between the states belong to intervals. In this paper, we study the problem of ef…

eess.SY2023

Interval Signal Temporal Logic from Natural Inclusion Functions

Luke Baird, Akash Harapanahalli, Samuel Coogan

We propose an interval extension of Signal Temporal Logic (STL) called Interval Signal Temporal Logic (\ISTL). Given an STL formula, we consider an interval inclusion function for…

eess.SY2023★ 5 cited

Forward Invariance in Neural Network Controlled Systems

Akash Harapanahalli, Saber Jafarpour, Samuel Coogan

We present a framework based on interval analysis and monotone systems theory to certify and search for forward invariant sets in nonlinear systems with neural network controllers.…