Sum-of-Squares Certificates for Almost-Sure Reachability of Stochastic Polynomial Systems

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Autori principali: Kordabad, Arash Bahari, Majumdar, Rupak, Soudjani, Sadegh
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author Kordabad, Arash Bahari
Majumdar, Rupak
Soudjani, Sadegh
author_facet Kordabad, Arash Bahari
Majumdar, Rupak
Soudjani, Sadegh
contents In this paper, we present a computational approach to certify almost sure reachability for discrete-time polynomial stochastic systems by turning drift--variant criteria into sum-of-squares (SOS) programs solved with standard semidefinite solvers. Specifically, we provide an SOS method based on two complementary certificates: (i) a drift certificate that enforces a radially unbounded function to be non-increasing in expectation outside a compact set of states; and (ii) a variant certificate that guarantees a one-step decrease with positive probability and ensures the target contains its nonpositive sublevel set. We transform these conditions to SOS constraints. For the variant condition, we enforce a robust decrease over a parameterized disturbance ball with nonzero probability and encode the constraints via an S-procedure with polynomial multipliers. The resulting bilinearities are handled by an alternating scheme that alternates between optimizing multipliers and updating the variant and radius until a positive slack is obtained. Two case studies illustrate the workflow and certifies almost-sure reachability.
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spellingShingle Sum-of-Squares Certificates for Almost-Sure Reachability of Stochastic Polynomial Systems
Kordabad, Arash Bahari
Majumdar, Rupak
Soudjani, Sadegh
Optimization and Control
Systems and Control
In this paper, we present a computational approach to certify almost sure reachability for discrete-time polynomial stochastic systems by turning drift--variant criteria into sum-of-squares (SOS) programs solved with standard semidefinite solvers. Specifically, we provide an SOS method based on two complementary certificates: (i) a drift certificate that enforces a radially unbounded function to be non-increasing in expectation outside a compact set of states; and (ii) a variant certificate that guarantees a one-step decrease with positive probability and ensures the target contains its nonpositive sublevel set. We transform these conditions to SOS constraints. For the variant condition, we enforce a robust decrease over a parameterized disturbance ball with nonzero probability and encode the constraints via an S-procedure with polynomial multipliers. The resulting bilinearities are handled by an alternating scheme that alternates between optimizing multipliers and updating the variant and radius until a positive slack is obtained. Two case studies illustrate the workflow and certifies almost-sure reachability.
title Sum-of-Squares Certificates for Almost-Sure Reachability of Stochastic Polynomial Systems
topic Optimization and Control
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25513