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Learning to solve complex tasks with signal temporal logic (STL) specifications is crucial to many real-world applications. However, most previous works only consider fixed or parametrized STL specifications due to the lack of a diverse STL…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Yue Meng , Chuchu Fan

We present a new approach for the design of a synthetic biological circuit whose behaviour is specified in terms of signal temporal logic (STL) formulae. We first show how to characterise with STL formulae the input/output behaviour of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-20 Ezio Bartocci , Luca Bortolussi , Laura Nenzi

Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) provides a rigorous framework for specifying long-horizon robotic tasks, yet existing approaches face a trade-off: model-based synthesis relies on accurate labeled transition systems, whereas learning-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ruijia Liu , Ancheng Hou , Xiang Yin

Temporal Logic (TL), especially Signal Temporal Logic (STL), enables precise formal specification, making it widely used in cyber-physical systems such as autonomous driving and robotics. Automatically transforming NL into STL is an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Yue Fang , Zhi Jin , Jie An , Hongshen Chen , Xiaohong Chen , Naijun Zhan

Formal control synthesis approaches over stochastic systems have received significant attention in the past few years, in view of their ability to provide provably correct controllers for complex logical specifications in an automated…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Majid Zamani , Ilya Tkachev , Alessandro Abate

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely adopted for synthetic data generation, significantly reducing annotation costs. However, most existing studies treat synthesis as a set of isolated tasks and overlook a more fundamental…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhenlin Hu , Yan Wang , Zhen Bi , Zihao Xue , Bingyu Zhu , Longtao Huang , Xiongtao Zhang , Zeyu Yang , Zhixuan Chu , Jungang Lou

We introduce a new logic called Signal Convolution Logic (SCL) that combines temporal logic with convolutional filters from digital signal processing. SCL enables to reason about the percentage of time a formula is satisfied in a bounded…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Simone Silvetti , Laura Nenzi , Ezio Bartocci , Luca Bortolussi

We present an overview on Temporal Logic Programming under the perspective of its application for Knowledge Representation and declarative problem solving. Such programs are the result of combining usual rules with temporal modal operators,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Felicidad Aguado , Pedro Cabalar , Martin Dieguez , Gilberto Perez , Torsten Schaub , Anna Schuhmann , Concepcion Vidal

In this note we consider the problem of introducing variables in temporal logic programs under the formalism of "Temporal Equilibrium Logic" (TEL), an extension of Answer Set Programming (ASP) for dealing with linear-time modal operators.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Felicidad Aguado , Pedro Cabalar , Martín Diéguez , Gilberto Pérez , Concepción Vidal

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as an efficient method of choice for solving complex sequential decision making problems in automatic control, computer science, economics, and biology. In this paper we present a model-free RL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Mohammadhosein Hasanbeig , Yiannis Kantaros , Alessandro Abate , Daniel Kroening , George J. Pappas , Insup Lee

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

Most algorithms for the synthesis of reactive systems focus on the construction of finite-state machines rather than actual programs. This often leads to badly structured, unreadable code. In this paper, we present a bounded synthesis…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Carsten Gerstacker , Felix Klein , Bernd Finkbeiner

We consider the problem of automatically synthesizing a hybrid controller for non-linear dynamical systems which ensures that the closed-loop fulfills an arbitrary \emph{Linear Temporal Logic} specification. Moreover, the specification may…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Satya Prakash Nayak , Lucas Neves Egidio , Matteo Della Rossa , Anne-Kathrin Schmuck , Raphaël Jungers

Time-series data can represent the behaviors of autonomous systems, such as drones and self-driving cars. The task of binary and multi-class classification for time-series data has become a prominent area of research. Neural networks…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-26 Danyang Li , Roberto Tron

Biological and advanced cyberphysical control systems often have limited, sparse, uncertain, and distributed communication and computing in addition to sensing and actuation. Fortunately, the corresponding plants and performance…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-08 Yuh-Shyang Wang , Nikolai Matni , John C. Doyle

This paper explores continuous-time control synthesis for target-driven navigation to satisfy complex high-level tasks expressed as linear temporal logic (LTL). We propose a model-free framework using deep reinforcement learning (DRL) where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Mingyu Cai , Makai Mann , Zachary Serlin , Kevin Leahy , Cristian-Ioan Vasile

Controller synthesis for hybrid systems that satisfy temporal specifications expressing various system properties is a challenging problem that has drawn the attention of many researchers. However, making the assumption that such temporal…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Dorsa Sadigh , Ashish Kapoor

Reactive computer systems bear inherent complexity due to continuous interactions with their environment. While this environment often proves to be uncontrollable, we still want to ensure that critical computer systems will not fail, no…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Mickael Randour

The reactive synthesis problem is to compute a system satisfying a given specification in temporal logic. Bounded synthesis is the approach to bound the maximum size of the system that we accept as a solution to the reactive synthesis…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Peter Faymonville , Bernd Finkbeiner , Markus N. Rabe , Leander Tentrup

In complex reasoning tasks, as expressible by Answer Set Programming (ASP), problems often permit for multiple solutions. In dynamic environments, where knowledge is continuously changing, the question arises how a given model can be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Harald Beck , Thomas Eiter , Christian Folie