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We propose a counterexample-guided inductive synthesis framework for the formal synthesis of closed-form sampled-data controllers for nonlinear systems to meet STL specifications over finite-time trajectories. Rather than stating the STL…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 Cees F. Verdier , Niklas Kochdumper , Matthias Althoff , Manuel Mazo

We consider the problem of safety verification and safety-aware controller synthesis for systems with sector bounded nonlinearities. We aim to keep the states of the system within a given safe set under potential actuator and sensor…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Yankai Lin , Michelle S. Chong , Carlos Murguia

In this paper, we propose a compositional framework for the synthesis of safety controllers for networks of partially-observed discrete-time stochastic control systems (a.k.a. continuous-space POMDPs). Given an estimator, we utilize a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Niloofar Jahanshahi , Abolfazl Lavaei , Majid Zamani

The safety of infinite state systems can be checked by a backward reachability procedure. For certain classes of systems, it is possible to prove the termination of the procedure and hence conclude the decidability of the safety problem.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Silvio Ghilardi , Silvio Ranise

Reach-avoid analysis is fundamental to reasoning about the safety and goal-reaching behavior of dynamical systems, and serves as a foundation for specifying and verifying more complex control objectives. This paper introduces a reach-avoid…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Rayan Mazouz , Luca Laurenti , Morteza Lahijanian

This paper presents an algorithmic framework for control synthesis of continuous dynamical systems subject to signal temporal logic (STL) specifications. We propose a novel algorithm to obtain a time-partitioned finite automaton from an STL…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Qi Heng Ho , Roland B. Ilyes , Zachary N. Sunberg , Morteza Lahijanian

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

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

Controller synthesis, including reset controller, feedback controller, and switching logic controller, provides an essential mechanism to guarantee the correctness and reliability of hybrid systems in a correct-by-construction manner.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-13 Jiang Liu , Han Su , Yunjun Bai , Bin Gu , Bai Xue , Mengfei Yang , Naijun Zhan

Neural networks (NN) have been successfully applied to approximate various types of complex control laws, resulting in low-complexity NN-based controllers that are fast to evaluate. However, when approximating control laws using NN,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Dieter Teichrib , Moritz Schulze Darup

General purpose correct-by-construction synthesis methods are limited to systems with low dimensionality or simple specifications. In this work we consider highly symmetrical counting problems and exploit the symmetry to synthesize provably…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Petter Nilsson , Necmiye Ozay

The objective of this paper is to solve the controller synthesis problem for bisimulation equivalence in a wide variety of scenarios including discrete-event systems, nonlinear control systems, behavioral systems, hybrid systems and many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-11-22 Paulo Tabuada

Actuator injection attacks pose real threats to all industrial plants controlled through communication networks. In this manuscript, we study the possibility of constraining the controller output (i.e. the input to the actuators) by means…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Cédric Escudero , Carlos Murguia , Paolo Massioni , Eric Zamaï

Iterative Synthetic Control Method is introduced in this study, a modification of the Synthetic Control Method (SCM) designed to improve its predictive performance by utilizing control units affected by the treatment in question. This…

Econometrics · Economics 2024-05-06 Andrii Melnychuk

This article shows that distributionally robust controller synthesis as investigated in \cite{taskesen2024distributionally} can be formulated as a convex linear matrix inequality (LMI) synthesis problem. To this end, we rely on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Dennis Gramlich , Shuhao Yan , Carsten W. Scherer , Christian Ebenbauer%

This paper provides a discretization-free solution to the synthesis of approx-imation-free closed-form controllers for unknown nonlinear systems to enforce complex properties expressed by $\omega$-regular languages, as recognized by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Ratnangshu Das , Aiman Aatif Bayezeed , Pushpak Jagtap

Threshold automata are a formalism for modeling fault-tolerant distributed algorithms. The main feature of threshold automata is the notion of a threshold guard, which allows us to compare the number of received messages with the total…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-01 A. R. Balasubramanian

Control synthesis from temporal logic specifications has gained popularity in recent years. In this paper, we use a model predictive approach to control discrete time linear systems with additive bounded disturbances subject to constraints…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Sadra Sadraddini , Calin Belta

This article presents a novel framework for the robust controller synthesis problem in discrete-time systems using dynamic Integral Quadratic Constraints (IQCs). We present an algorithm to minimize closed-loop performance measures such as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Lukas Schwenkel , Johannes Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Carsten W. Scherer , Frank Allgöwer

In this work, we propose a novel approach for the continuous-time control synthesis of nonlinear systems under nested signal temporal logic (STL) specifications. While the majority of existing literature focuses on control synthesis for STL…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-24 Pian Yu , Xiao Tan , Dimos V. Dimarogonas
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