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Multi-agent systems have evolved into practical LLM-driven collaborators for many applications, gaining robustness from diversity and cross-checking. However, multi-agent RL (MARL) training is resource-intensive and unstable: co-adapting…

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly rely on multi-turn tool-integrated planning for knowledge-intensive and complex reasoning tasks. Existing implementations typically rely on a single agent, but they suffer from limited context…

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This article proposes a distributed control method for matrix-scaled multi-agent networks aimed at achieving convergence within a user-defined time frame. The control law of each individual agent relies only on information from neighboring…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 K. P. Sunny , Rakesh R. Warier

Large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems have demonstrated remarkable promise for tackling complex tasks by breaking them down into subtasks that are iteratively planned, executed, observed, and refined. Despite their…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Enhao Zhang , Erkang Zhu , Gagan Bansal , Adam Fourney , Hussein Mozannar , Jack Gerrits

We present a (semi)-algorithm to compute winning strategies for parametric timed games. Previous algorithms only synthesized constraints on the clock parameters for which the game is winning. A new definition of (winning) strategies is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Mikael Bisgaard Dahlsen-Jensen , Baptiste Fievet , Laure Petrucci , Jaco van de Pol

We consider the setting of component-based design for real-time systems with critical timing constraints. Based on our earlier work, we propose a compositional specification theory for timed automata with I/O distinction, which supports…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-06-21 Chris Chilton , Marta Kwiatkowska , Xu Wang

Autonomous systems often have logical constraints arising, for example, from safety, operational, or regulatory requirements. Such constraints can be expressed using temporal logic specifications. The system state is often partially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Krishna C. Kalagarla , Dhruva Kartik , Dongming Shen , Rahul Jain , Ashutosh Nayyar , Pierluigi Nuzzo

We present an approach to automatically synthesize synchronized models from lightweight formal specifications. Our approach takes as input a specification of a distributed system along with a global linear time constraint, which must be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Pablo F. Castro , Luciano Putruele , Renzo Degiovanni , Nazareno Aguirre

Temporal logic based synthesis approaches are often used to find trajectories that are correct-by-construction for tasks in systems with complex behavior. Some examples of such tasks include synchronization for multi-agent hybrid systems,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Sumanth Dathathri , Richard M. Murray

This paper proposes a method for designing human-robot collaboration tasks and generating corresponding trajectories. The method uses high-level specifications, expressed as a Signal Temporal Logic (STL) formula, to automatically synthesize…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Giuseppe Silano , Amr Afifi , Martin Saska , Antonio Franchi

In multi-agent system design, a crucial aspect is to ensure robustness, meaning that for a coalition of agents A, small violations of adversarial assumptions only lead to small violations of A's goals. In this paper we introduce a logical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Aniello Murano , Daniel Neider , Martin Zimmermann

We address the problem of synthesizing reactive controllers for cyber-physical systems subject to Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications in the presence of adversarial inputs. Given a finite horizon, we define a reactive hierarchy of…

Autonomous agents rely on automated planning algorithms to achieve their objectives. Simulation-based planning offers a significant advantage over declarative models in modelling complex environments. However, relying solely on a planner…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Mustafa F. Abdelwahed , Alice Toniolo , Joan Espasa , Ian P. Gent

We propose algorithms for performing model checking and control synthesis for discrete-time uncertain systems under linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications. We construct temporal logic trees (TLT) from LTL formulae via reachability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Yulong Gao , Alessandro Abate , Frank J. Jiang , Mirco Giacobbe , Lihua Xie , Karl H. Johansson

Multi-agent systems for resource allocation (MRAs) have been introduced as a concept for modelling competitive resource allocation problems in distributed computing. An MRA is composed of a set of agents and a set of resources. Each agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Nils Timm , Josua Botha

This paper proposes a specification-guided framework for control of nonlinear systems with linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications. In contrast with well-known abstraction-based methods, the proposed framework directly characterizes the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-03 Yinan Li , Zhibing Sun , Jun Liu

This work presents a decentralized time synchronization algorithm for multi-agent systems. Each agent possesses two clocks, a hardware clock that is perturbed by environmental phenomena (e.g., temperature, humidity, pressure, g forces,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Federico M. Zegers , Sean Phillips

In many practical scenarios, multi-robot systems are envisioned to support humans in executing complicated tasks within structured environments, such as search-and-rescue tasks. We propose a framework for a multi-robot swarm to fulfill…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Shuhao Qi , Zengjie Zhang , Sofie Haesaert , Zhiyong Sun

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

Prior work on automatic control synthesis for cyber-physical systems under logical constraints has primarily focused on environmental disturbances or modeling uncertainties, however, the impact of deliberate and malicious attacks has been…

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