Characterization of Safe Stabilization and Control Lyapunov-Barrier Functions via Zubov Equation Formulation

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author Meng, Yiming
Liu, Jun
author_facet Meng, Yiming
Liu, Jun
contents Design and analysis of stabilizing controllers with safety guarantees for nonlinear systems have received considerable attention in recent years. Control Lyapunov-barrier functions (CLBFs) provide a powerful framework for simultaneously ensuring stability and safety; however, their construction for nonlinear systems remains challenging. To address this issue, we build on recent advances in PDE-based characterizations of control Lyapunov functions and Lyapunov-barrier functions for autonomous systems, and propose a succinct Zubov-HJB PDE formulation for safe stabilization of nonlinear control-affine systems under a common compatibility assumption. We further show that the viscosity solution of this PDE yields a maximal CLBF, enabling (not necessarily continuous) feedback synthesis with stability and safety guarantees. In light of recent advances in neural-network-based methods for solving Zubov-type PDEs, this theoretical framework also provides a natural interface to emerging numerical approaches.
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spellingShingle Characterization of Safe Stabilization and Control Lyapunov-Barrier Functions via Zubov Equation Formulation
Meng, Yiming
Liu, Jun
Dynamical Systems
Design and analysis of stabilizing controllers with safety guarantees for nonlinear systems have received considerable attention in recent years. Control Lyapunov-barrier functions (CLBFs) provide a powerful framework for simultaneously ensuring stability and safety; however, their construction for nonlinear systems remains challenging. To address this issue, we build on recent advances in PDE-based characterizations of control Lyapunov functions and Lyapunov-barrier functions for autonomous systems, and propose a succinct Zubov-HJB PDE formulation for safe stabilization of nonlinear control-affine systems under a common compatibility assumption. We further show that the viscosity solution of this PDE yields a maximal CLBF, enabling (not necessarily continuous) feedback synthesis with stability and safety guarantees. In light of recent advances in neural-network-based methods for solving Zubov-type PDEs, this theoretical framework also provides a natural interface to emerging numerical approaches.
title Characterization of Safe Stabilization and Control Lyapunov-Barrier Functions via Zubov Equation Formulation
topic Dynamical Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00941