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Among the various critical systems that worth to be formally analyzed, a wide set consists of controllers for dynamical systems. Those programs typically execute an infinite loop in which simple com putations update internal states and…

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The problem of data-driven control is addressed here in the context of switched affine systems. This class of nonlinear systems is of particular importance when controlling many types of applications in electronic, biology, medicine, etc.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-24 Alexandre Seuret , Carolina Albea , Francisco Gordillo

Ultra-Local Models (ULM) have been applied to perform model-free control of nonlinear systems with unknown or partially known dynamics. Unfortunately, extending these methods to MIMO systems requires designing a dense input influence matrix…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Sangli Teng , Amit K. Sanyal , Ram Vasudevan , Anthony Bloch , Maani Ghaffari

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…

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This paper presents a novel two-level control architecture for a fully autonomous vehicle in a deterministic environment, which can handle traffic rules as specifications and low-level vehicle control with real-time performance. At the top…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Erfan Aasi , Cristian Ioan Vasile , Calin Belta

Most current methods for learning from demonstrations assume that those demonstrations alone are sufficient to learn the underlying task. This is often untrue, especially if extra safety specifications exist which were not present in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Craig Innes , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

In biological and engineering systems, structure, function and dynamics are highly coupled. Such interactions can be naturally and compactly captured via tensor based state space dynamic representations. However, such representations are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Can Chen , Amit Surana , Anthony Bloch , Indika Rajapakse

In this paper, we consider the notion of resilience of a dynamical system, defined by the maximum disturbance a controlled dynamical system can withstand while satisfying given temporal logic specifications. Given a dynamical system and a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Youssef Ait Si , Ratnangshu Das , Negar Monir , Sadegh Soudjani , Pushpak Jagtap , Adnane Saoud

This paper studies the construction of symbolic abstractions for nonlinear control systems via feedback refinement relation. Both the delay-free and time-delay cases are addressed. For the delay-free case, to reduce the computational…

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

Supervised open-loop training has been widely adopted for training traffic simulation models; however, it fails to capture the inherently dynamic, multi-agent interactions common in complex driving scenarios. We introduce RLFTSim, a…

In this paper, the finite-time control and bumpless transfer control are investigated for switched systems under asynchronously switching. First, a class of dynamic output feedback controllers are designed to stabilize the switched system…

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The paper extends core results of behavioral systems theory from linear to affine time-invariant systems. We characterize the behavior of affine time-invariant systems via kernel, input-output, state-space, and finite-horizon data-driven…

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This paper addresses the planning and control problem for nonlinear systems under Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications. We first decompose an STL task into finite local tasks. A sampling-based method generates sequences of local…

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This paper investigates the planning and control problems for multi-robot systems under linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications. In contrast to most of existing literature, which presumes a static and known environment, our study focuses…

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We propose a policy search approach to learn controllers from specifications given as Signal Temporal Logic (STL) formulae. The system model, which is unknown but assumed to be an affine control system, is learned together with the control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Wenliang Liu , Mirai Nishioka , Calin Belta

As large language models (LLMs) have shown great success in many tasks, they are used in various applications. While a lot of works have focused on the efficiency of single-LLM application (e.g., offloading, request scheduling, parallelism…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Jingzhi Fang , Yanyan Shen , Yue Wang , Lei Chen

Designing a static state-feedback controller subject to structural constraint achieving asymptotic stability is a relevant problem with many applications, including network decentralized control, coordinated control, and sparse feedback…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Francesco Ferrante , Fabrizio Dabbene , Chiara Ravazzi

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) provides a powerful framework to describe complex tasks involving temporal and logical behavior in dynamical systems. This work addresses controller synthesis for continuous-time systems subject to STL…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Vaishnavi Jagabathula , Pushpak Jagtap

A problem of computing time-fuel optimal control for state transfer of a single input linear time invariant (LTI) system to the origin is considered. The input is assumed to be bounded. Since, the optimal control is bang-off-bang in nature,…

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