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Real-Time Synthesis of Robust Controlled Invariant Sets for Monotone Systems

arXiv:2609.14115v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety-critical control of autonomous systems requires formal safety certificates, such as controlled invariant sets, that must be computed online as conditions change. Although standard synthesis algorithms scale poorly with state dimension, monotone dynamical systems with lower-closed safety specifications allow for accelerated computation of controlled invariant sets. In particular, lazy fixed-point algorithms exploit monotonicity and track o

Published September 15, 2026 · Category: Robotics

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arXiv:2609.14115v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety-critical control of autonomous systems requires formal safety certificates, such as controlled invariant sets, that must be computed online as conditions change. Although standard synthesis algorithms scale poorly with state dimension, monotone dynamical systems with lower-closed safety specifications allow for accelerated computation of controlled invariant sets. In particular, lazy fixed-point algorithms exploit monotonicity and track only the antichain basis of the set. However, membership tests and redundancy checks against an evolving basis remain major bottlenecks. We introduce a threshold-function reformulation in which a lower-closed set on a d-dimensional grid is represented by its column heights along a designated axis. This reformulates the greatest-fixed-point iteration as independent one-dimensional binary searches, one per grid column, yielding an embarrassingly parallel iteration with asymptotically lower computational complexity than the lazy fixed-point algorithm. Experiments synthesize invariant sets on 3D grids with 10^9 cells in under 50 ms and 10^14 cells in under two minutes. We further demonstrate online re-synthesis in a safety-informed model predictive controller example.

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Originally published at arxiv.org.

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