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We consider the synthesis problem on timed automata with B\"uchi objectives, where delay choices made by a controller are subjected to small perturbations. Usually, the controller needs to avoid punctual guards, such as testing the equality…
In this work, we present a compositional safety controller synthesis approach for the class of discrete-time linear control systems. Here, we leverage a state-of-the-art result on the computation of robust controlled invariant sets. To…
This paper presents an automatic formal controller synthesis method for nonlinear sampled-data systems with safety and reachability specifications. Fundamentally, the presented method is not restricted to polynomial systems and controllers.…
The paper addresses the problem of controller synthesis for control-affine nonlinear systems to meet reach-avoid-stay specifications. Specifically, the goal of the research is to obtain a closed-form control law ensuring that the…
Controller synthesis is a theoretical approach to the systematic design of discrete event systems. It constructs a controller to provide feedback and control to the system, ensuring it meets specified control specifications. Traditional…
In this paper, we consider the problem of controller design using approximately bisimilar abstractions with an emphasis on safety and reachability specifications. We propose abstraction-based approaches to solve both classes of problems. We…
Digital control has become increasingly prevalent in modern systems, making continuous-time plants controlled by discrete-time (digital) controllers ubiquitous and crucial across industries, including aerospace, automotive, and…
The paper presents a novel approach to synthesize robust controllers for nonlinear systems along perturbed trajectories. The approach linearizes the system with respect to a reference trajectory. In contrast to existing methods rooted in…
We study the problem of synthesizing a controller to satisfy a complex task in the presence of sensor faults and attacks. We model the task using Gaussian distribution temporal logic (GDTL), and propose a solution approach that does not…
This paper studies the online control synthesis problem for uncertain discrete-time systems subject to signal temporal logic (STL) specifications. Different from existing techniques, this work proposes an approach based on STL, reachability…
In this paper we consider the safety verification and safe controller synthesis problems for nonlinear control systems. The Control Barrier Certificates (CBC) approach is proposed as an extension to the Barrier certificates approach. Our…
In this paper, we investigate the problem of synthesizing controllers for temporal logic specifications under security constraint. We assume that there exists a passive intruder (eavesdropper) that can partially observe the behavior of the…
This paper focuses on synthesizing control policies for discrete-time stochastic control systems together with a lower bound on the probability that the systems satisfy the complex temporal properties. The desired properties of the system…
In this article, we consider the problem of synthesizing switching controllers for temporal properties through the composition of simple primitive reach-while-stay (RWS) properties. Reach-while-stay properties specify that the system states…
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…
In this paper we propose a data-driven output-feedback controller synthesis method for discrete-time linear time-invariant systems in a specific autoregressive form. The synthesis goal is either to achieve dissipativity with respect to a…
This paper develops a framework for synthesizing safety controllers for discrete-time stochastic linear control systems (dt-SLS) operating under communication imperfections. The control unit is remote and communicates with the sensor and…
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…
Given a Markov decision process (MDP) and a linear-time ($\omega$-regular or LTL) specification, the controller synthesis problem aims to compute the optimal policy that satisfies the specification. More recently, problems that reason over…
The control of complex systems faces a trade-off between high performance and safety guarantees, which in particular restricts the application of learning-based methods to safety-critical systems. A recently proposed framework to address…