A framework for worst-case and stochastic safety verification using barrier certificates

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1415-1428

  Prajna, Stephen ^a,b   Jadbabaie, Ali ^c   Pappas, George J ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Credit Suisse USA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrier certificates; Hybrid systems; Nonlinear systems; Safety verification; Stochastic systems; Sum of squares optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

BARRIER CERTIFICATE; SAFETY VERIFICATION; STOCHASTIC SAFETY VERIFICATION; SUM OF SQUARES OPTIMIZATION;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548207741     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2007.902736     Document Type: Article

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