Reachability of Nonlinear Systems With Unknown Dynamics

DOI10.1109/TAC.2022.3170855arXiv2108.11045OpenAlexW3194343990MaRDI QIDQ6053285FDOQ6053285

Publication date: 26 September 2023

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: 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 where a system suffers an adverse event mid-operation, resulting in a substantial change to the system's dynamics, rendering them largely unknown. Our objective is to conservatively approximate the system's reachable set solely from its local dynamics at a single point and the bounds on the rate of change of its dynamics. We translate this knowledge about the system dynamics into an ordinary differential inclusion. We then derive a conservative approximation of the velocities available to the system at every system state. An inclusion using this approximation can be interpreted as a control system; the trajectories of the derived control system are guaranteed to be trajectories of the unknown system. To illustrate the practical implementation and consequences of our work, we apply our algorithm to a simplified model of an unmanned aerial vehicle.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.11045

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear control systems uncertain systems autonomous systems aerospace systems reachable set computation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Systems theory; control (93-XX)

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