Verification of stochastic dynamical systems can often be formulated as chance-constrained optimization problems -maximize probability of satisfaction of safety/reachability objectives subject to dynamics and control bounds. For linear systems perturbed by Gaussian noise, chance-constraint techniques have proven to be highly efficient. With the goal of extending this approach to non-Gaussian disturbances, this short paper focuses on tractable approaches to enforce chance constraints involving non-Gaussian random vectors. After reviewing existing techniques, we propose a novel approach to enforce chance constraints for arbitrary disturbances using Fourier transforms that is sampling-free and provides tight approximations. We demonstrate the efficiency of our approach in a simple example.
CCS CONCEPTS• Theory of computation → Stochastic control and optimization; Convex optimization; • Computing methodologies → Control methods; Computational control theory;