Certified Set Convergence for Piecewise Affine Systems via Neural Lyapunov Functions

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Autori principali: Huang, Yanliang, Xie, Peng, Zhang, Zhen, Wu, Wenyuan, Zeng, Zhuoqi, Alanwar, Amr
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author Huang, Yanliang
Xie, Peng
Zhang, Zhen
Wu, Wenyuan
Zeng, Zhuoqi
Alanwar, Amr
author_facet Huang, Yanliang
Xie, Peng
Zhang, Zhen
Wu, Wenyuan
Zeng, Zhuoqi
Alanwar, Amr
contents Safety-critical control of piecewise affine (PWA) systems under bounded additive disturbances requires guarantees not for individual states but for entire state sets simultaneously: a single control action must steer every state in the set toward a target, even as sets crossing mode boundaries split and evolve under distinct affine dynamics. Certifying such set convergence via neural Lyapunov functions couples the Lipschitz constants of the value function and the policy, yet certified bounds for expressive networks exceed true values by orders of magnitude, creating a certification barrier. We resolve this through a three-stage pipeline that decouples verification from the policy. A value function from Hamilton-Jacobi backward reachability, trained via reinforcement learning, is the Lyapunov candidate. A permutation-invariant Deep Sets controller, distilled via regret minimization, produces a common action. Verification propagates zonotopes through the value network, yielding verified Lyapunov upper bounds over entire sets without bounding the policy Lipschitz constant. On four benchmarks up to dimension six, including systems with per-mode operator norms exceeding unity, the framework certifies set convergence with positive margin on every system. A spectrally constrained local certificate completes the terminal guarantee, and the set-actor is the only tested method to achieve full strict set containment, at constant-time online cost.
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spellingShingle Certified Set Convergence for Piecewise Affine Systems via Neural Lyapunov Functions
Huang, Yanliang
Xie, Peng
Zhang, Zhen
Wu, Wenyuan
Zeng, Zhuoqi
Alanwar, Amr
Systems and Control
Safety-critical control of piecewise affine (PWA) systems under bounded additive disturbances requires guarantees not for individual states but for entire state sets simultaneously: a single control action must steer every state in the set toward a target, even as sets crossing mode boundaries split and evolve under distinct affine dynamics. Certifying such set convergence via neural Lyapunov functions couples the Lipschitz constants of the value function and the policy, yet certified bounds for expressive networks exceed true values by orders of magnitude, creating a certification barrier. We resolve this through a three-stage pipeline that decouples verification from the policy. A value function from Hamilton-Jacobi backward reachability, trained via reinforcement learning, is the Lyapunov candidate. A permutation-invariant Deep Sets controller, distilled via regret minimization, produces a common action. Verification propagates zonotopes through the value network, yielding verified Lyapunov upper bounds over entire sets without bounding the policy Lipschitz constant. On four benchmarks up to dimension six, including systems with per-mode operator norms exceeding unity, the framework certifies set convergence with positive margin on every system. A spectrally constrained local certificate completes the terminal guarantee, and the set-actor is the only tested method to achieve full strict set containment, at constant-time online cost.
title Certified Set Convergence for Piecewise Affine Systems via Neural Lyapunov Functions
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00286