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In time-critical systems, such as air traffic control systems, it is crucial to design control policies that are robust to timing uncertainty. Recently, the notion of Asynchronous Temporal Robustness (ATR) was proposed to capture the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Xinyi Yu , Xiang Yin , Lars Lindemann

The fundamental idea of this work is to synthesize reactive controllers such that closed-loop execution trajectories of the system satisfy desired specifications that ensure correct system behaviors, while optimizing a desired performance…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Sayan Saha , A. Agung Julius

We propose a mathematical framework for synthesizing motion plans for multi-agent systems that fulfill complex, high-level and formal local specifications in the presence of inter-agent communication. The proposed synthesis framework…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Zhiyu Liu , Jin Dai , Bo Wu , Hai Lin

Designing tests to evaluate if a given autonomous system satisfies complex specifications is challenging due to the complexity of these systems. This work proposes a flow-based approach for reactive test synthesis from temporal logic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Josefine B. Graebener , Apurva S. Badithela , Denizalp Goktas , Wyatt Ubellacker , Eric V. Mazumdar , Aaron D. Ames , Richard M. Murray

We consider the synthesis of control policies from temporal logic specifications for robots that interact with multiple dynamic environment agents. Each environment agent is modeled by a Markov chain whereas the robot is modeled by a finite…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-03-07 Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn , Alphan Ulusoy , Calin Belta , Emilio Frazzoli , Daniela Rus

This paper addresses the control synthesis of heterogeneous stochastic linear multi-agent systems with real-time allocation of signal temporal logic (STL) specifications. Based on previous work, we decompose specifications into…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Maico H. W. Engelaar , Zengjie Zhang , Eleftherios E. Vlahakis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , Mircea Lazar , Sofie Haesaert

We propose a distributed control and coordination strategy for multi-agent systems where each agent has a local task specified as a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula and at the same time is subject to relative-distance constraints with…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-11-03 Meng Guo , Jana Tumova , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper presents a hybrid control framework for the motion planning of a multi-agent system including N robotic agents and M objects, under high level goals expressed as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formulas. In particular, we design…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Christos K. Verginis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We study the distributed synthesis of policies for multi-agent systems to perform \emph{spatial-temporal} tasks. We formalize the synthesis problem as a \emph{factored} Markov decision process subject to \emph{graph temporal logic}…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Murat Cubuktepe , Zhe Xu , Ufuk Topcu

In this paper, we present a method for optimal control synthesis of a plant that interacts with a set of agents in a graph-like environment. The control specification is given as a temporal logic statement about some properties that hold at…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-09-06 Alphan Ulusoy , Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn , Calin Belta

We propose Teamwork Synthesis, a version of the distributed synthesis problem with application to teamwork multi-agent systems. We reformulate the distributed synthesis question by dropping the fixed interaction architecture among agents as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Yehia Abd Alrahman , Nir Piterman

The control synthesis of a dynamic system subject to a signal temporal logic (STL) specification is commonly formulated as a mixed-integer linear/convex programming (MILP/MICP) problem. Solving such a problem is computationally expensive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Zengjie Zhang , Sofie Haesaert

Synthesis is the automated construction of a system from its specification. The system has to satisfy its specification in all possible environments. Modern systems often interact with other systems, or agents. Many times these agents have…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-07-20 Dana Fisman , Orna Kupferman , Yoad Lustig

Correct-by-design synthesis provides a principled framework for establishing formal safety guarantees for stochastic multi-agent systems (MAS). However, conventional approaches based on finite abstractions often incur prohibitive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Xinyuan Qiu , Ruohan Wang , Siyuan Liu , Sofie Haesaert

This paper develops a general framework for multi-agent control synthesis, which applies to a wide range of problems with convergence guarantees, including those with time-varying objective functions. The proposed framework achieves…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Ruoyu Lin , Gennaro Notomista , Magnus Egerstedt

We propose a framework for the decentralized control of a team of agents that are assigned local tasks expressed as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formulas. Each local LTL task specification captures both the requirements on the respective…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-05-09 Meng Guo , Jana Tumova , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In this paper, we present a control framework that allows magnetic microrobot teams to accomplish complex micromanipulation tasks captured by global Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formulas. To address this problem, we propose an optimal…

Because of the scalability issues associated with the symbolic controller synthesis approach, employing it in a multi-agent system (MAS) framework becomes difficult. In this paper, we present a novel approach for synthesizing distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 David Smith Sundarsingh , Ratnangshu Das , Adnane Saoud , Pushpak Jagtap

Most control synthesis methods under temporal logic properties require a model of the system, however, identifying such a model can be a challenging task. In this work, we develop a direct data-driven control synthesis method for temporal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-05 Birgit C. van Huijgevoort , Chris Verhoek , Roland Tóth , Sofie Haesaert

Executing a Golog program on an actual robot typically requires additional steps to account for hardware or software details of the robot platform, which can be formulated as constraints on the program. Such constraints are often temporal,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Till Hofmann , Gerhard Lakemeyer