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We address the synthesis of control policies for unknown discrete-time stochastic dynamical systems to satisfy temporal logic objectives. We present a data-driven, abstraction-based control framework that integrates online learning with…

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In this manuscript, we investigate symbolic abstractions that capture the behavior of piecewise-affine systems under input constraints and bounded external noise. This is accomplished by considering local affine feedback controllers that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Lucas N. Egidio , Thiago Alves Lima , Raphaël M. Jungers

Discrete abstractions have become a standard approach to assist control synthesis under complex specifications. Most techniques for the construction of discrete abstractions are based on sampling of both the state and time spaces, which may…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-20 Pian Yu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Previous approaches to constructing abstractions for control systems rely on geometric conditions or, in the case of an interconnected control system, a condition on the interconnection topology. Since these conditions are not always…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-22 Stanley W. Smith , Murat Arcak , Majid Zamani

This paper studies the synthesis of controllers for discrete-time, continuous state stochastic systems subject to omega-regular specifications using finite-state abstractions. We present a synthesis algorithm for minimizing or maximizing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Maxence Dutreix , Jeongmin Huh , Samuel Coogan

At the intersection of dynamical systems, control theory, and formal methods lies the construction of symbolic abstractions: these typically represent simpler, finite-state models whose behavior mimics that of an underlying concrete system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-27 Rudi Coppola , Andrea Peruffo , Manuel Mazo

The goal of this paper is to obtain online abstractions for coupled multi-agent systems in a decentralized manner. A discrete model which captures the motion capabilities of each agent is derived over a bounded time-horizon, by discretizing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 Dimitris Boskos , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

As control systems grow in complexity, abstraction-based methods have become essential for designing controllers with formal guarantees. However, a key limitation of these methods is their reliance on discrete-time models, typically…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Adrien Janssens , Adrien Banse , Julien Calbert , Raphaël M. Jungers

Finite-state abstractions are widely studied for the automated synthesis of correct-by-construction controllers for stochastic dynamical systems. However, existing abstraction methods often lead to prohibitively large finite-state models.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-03 Thom Badings , Licio Romao , Alessandro Abate , Nils Jansen

In this work, we derive conditions under which abstractions of networks of stochastic hybrid systems can be constructed compositionally. Proposed conditions leverage the interconnection topology, switching randomly between P different…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Asad Ullah Awan , Majid Zamani

We propose an efficient symbolic control synthesis algorithm for equivariant continuous-time dynamical systems to satisfy reach-avoid specifications. The algorithm exploits dynamical symmetries to construct lean abstractions to avoid…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Hussein Sibai , Sacha Huriot , Tyler Martin , Murat Arcak

The practical impact of abstraction-based controller synthesis methods is currently limited by the immense computational effort for obtaining abstractions. In this note we focus on a recently proposed method to compute abstractions whose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-07 Alexander Weber , Matthias Rungger , Gunther Reissig

We study the problem of synthesizing a controller for a robot with a surveillance objective, that is, the robot is required to maintain knowledge of the location of a moving, possibly adversarial target. We formulate this problem as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Suda Bharadwaj , Rayna Dimitrova , Ufuk Topcu

We consider the problem of computing the set of initial states of a dynamical system such that there exists a control strategy to ensure that the trajectories satisfy a temporal logic specification with probability 1 (almost-surely). We…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Maria Svorenova , Jan Kretinsky , Martin Chmelik , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Ivana Cerna , Calin Belta

Partial observability and controllability are two well-known issues in test-case synthesis for interactive systems. We address the problem of partial control in the synthesis of test cases from timed-automata specifications. Building on the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Léo Henry , Thierry Jéron , Nicolas Markey

We consider abstraction-based design of output-feedback controllers for non-linear dynamical systems against specifications over state-based predicates in linear-time temporal logic (LTL). In this context, our contribution is two-fold: (I)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-23 Anne-Kathrin Schmuck , Mehrdad Zareian

We define robust abstractions for synthesizing provably correct and robust controllers for (possibly infinite) uncertain transition systems. It is shown that robust abstractions are sound in the sense that they preserve robust satisfaction…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Jun Liu

The abstraction of dynamical systems is a powerful tool that enables the design of feedback controllers using a correct-by-design framework. We investigate a novel scheme to obtain data-driven abstractions of discrete-time stochastic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-15 Rudi Coppola , Andrea Peruffo , Licio Romao , Alessandro Abate , Manuel Mazo

In this work, we introduce a compositional framework for the construction of finite abstractions (a.k.a. symbolic models) of interconnected discrete-time control systems. The compositional scheme is based on the joint dissipativity-type…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Abdalla Swikir , Antoine Girard , Majid Zamani

Abstraction-based techniques are an attractive approach for synthesizing correct-by-construction controllers to satisfy high-level temporal requirements. A main bottleneck for successful application of these techniques is the memory…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-11 Rupak Majumdar , Mahmoud Salamati , Sadegh Soudjani