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The increase in available data and complexity of dynamical systems has sparked the research on data-based system performance analysis and controller design. Recent approaches can guarantee performance and robust controller synthesis based…

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Noise characterization methods such as randomized benchmarking (RB) are critical for the development of scalable quantum computers. Modern RB protocols for multiqubit systems extract physically relevant error rates by exploiting the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Yale Fan , Riley Murray , Thaddeus D. Ladd , Kevin Young , Robin Blume-Kohout

The synthesis of robust invariant sets for nonlinear systems has traditionally been hindered by the inherent non convexity and a strict reliance on exact analytical models. This paper presents a purely data-driven framework to compute…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Sahand Kiani , Constantino M. Lagoa

Verifying specifications for large-scale modern engineering systems can be a time-consuming task, as most formal verification methods are limited to systems of modest size. Recently, contract-based design and verification has been proposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-26 Miel Sharf , Bart Besselink , Karl Henrik Johansson

Complex, interconnected Cyber-physical Systems (CPS) are increasingly common in applications including smart grids and transportation. Ensuring safety of interconnected systems whose dynamics are coupled is challenging because the effects…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Abdullah Al Maruf , Luyao Niu , Andrew Clark , J. Sukarno Mertoguno , Radha Poovendran

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

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Youssef Ait Si , Ratnangshu Das , Negar Monir , Sadegh Soudjani , Pushpak Jagtap , Adnane Saoud

Ensuring that agents satisfy safety specifications can be crucial in safety-critical environments. While methods exist for controller synthesis with safe temporal specifications, most existing methods restrict safe temporal specifications…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Gaspard Ohlmann , Edwin Hamel-De le Court , Francesco Belardinelli

To foster trust in machine learning models, explanations must be faithful and stable for consistent insights. Existing relevant works rely on the $\ell_p$ distance for stability assessment, which diverges from human perception. Besides,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Chao Chen , Chenghua Guo , Rufeng Chen , Guixiang Ma , Ming Zeng , Xiangwen Liao , Xi Zhang , Sihong Xie

We present an standard constraints generation algorithm to find an explicit set whose robustness is equal to the robustness of the feasible solution set of a combinatorial optimization problem with cost uncertainty. Computational experience…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Alejandro Crema

In reactive synthesis, the goal is to automatically generate an implementation from a specification of the reactive and non-terminating input/output behaviours of a system. Specifications are usually modelled as logical formulae or automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Léo Exibard , Emmanuel Filiot , Pierre-Alain Reynier

Robustness is key to engineering, automation, and science as a whole. However, the property of robustness is often underpinned by costly requirements such as over-provisioning, known uncertainty and predictive models, and known adversaries.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Amanda Prorok , Matthew Malencia , Luca Carlone , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Brian M. Sadler , Vijay Kumar

In this paper, we provide a direct data-driven approach to synthesize safety controllers for unknown linear systems affected by unknown-but-bounded disturbances, in which identifying the unknown model is not required. First, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-16 Bingzhuo Zhong , Majid Zamani , Marco Caccamo

Many safety-critical systems must achieve high-level task specifications with guaranteed safety and correctness. Much recent progress towards this goal has been made through controller synthesis from temporal logic specifications. Existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Rafael Rodrigues da Silva , Vince Kurtz , Hai Lin

Reactive synthesis is a key technique for the design of correct-by-construction systems and has been thoroughly investigated in the last decades. It consists in the synthesis of a controller that reacts to environment's inputs satisfying a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Alessandro Cimatti , Luca Geatti , Nicola Gigante , Angelo Montanari , Stefano Tonetta

Deadline misses are more common in real-world systems than one may expect. The weakly-hard task model has become a standard abstraction to describe and analyze how often these misses occur, and has been especially used in control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Marc Seidel , Martina Maggio , Frank Allgöwer

Ensuring constraint satisfaction in large-scale systems with hard constraints is vital in many safety critical systems. The challenge is to design controllers that are efficiently synthesized offline, easily implementable online, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-18 Kasra Ghasemi , Sadra Sadraddini , Calin Belta

We introduce a framework for the control of discrete-time switched stochastic systems with uncertain distributions. In particular, we consider stochastic dynamics with additive noise whose distribution lies in an ambiguity set of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Ibon Gracia , Dimitris Boskos , Morteza Lahijanian , Luca Laurenti , Manuel Mazo

While GUI agents have advanced rapidly, they often lack the robustness to recover from their own errors, hindering real-world deployment. To bridge this gap at both the evaluation and data levels, we introduce GUI-RobustEval and propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Tianpeng Bu , Xin Liu , Qihua Chen , Hao Jiang , Shurui Li , Hongtao Duan , Lu Jiang , Lulu Hu , Bin Yang , Minying Zhang

Gaussian processes (GPs) enable principled computation of model uncertainty, making them attractive for safety-critical applications. Such scenarios demand that GP decisions are not only accurate, but also robust to perturbations. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Andrea Patane , Arno Blaas , Luca Laurenti , Luca Cardelli , Stephen Roberts , Marta Kwiatkowska

We design a new efficient strategy synthesis method applicable to adversarial patrolling problems on graphs with arbitrary-length edges and possibly imperfect intrusion detection. The core ingredient is an efficient algorithm for computing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-07 David Klaška , Antonín Kučera , Vít Musil , Vojtěch Řehák