Bounds on Reachable Sets Using Ordinary Differential Equations with Linear Programs Embedded

Title

Bounds on Reachable Sets Using Ordinary Differential Equations with Linear Programs Embedded

Publication Type
Conference Paper
Year of Publication
2013
Conference Name
9th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems
Conference Location
INP-ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France
ISBN Number
9783902823472
Abstract

This work considers the computation of time-varying enclosures of the reachable sets of nonlinear control systems via the solution of an initial value problem in ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with linear programs (LPs) embedded. To ensure the numerical tractability of such a formulation, the properties of the ODEs with LPs embedded are discussed including existence and uniqueness of the solutions of the initial value problem in ODEs with LPs embedded. This formulation is then applied to the computation of rigorous componentwise time-varying bounds on the states of a nonlinear control system. The bounding theory used in this work exploits physical information to yield tight bounds on the states; this work develops a new implementation of this theory. Finally, the tightness of the bounds are demonstrated for a model of a reacting chemical system with uncertain rate parameters.