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This paper presents a novel data-driven framework for the robust safety verification and safe control synthesis of unknown monotone discrete-time systems. While existing data-driven safety analysis approaches are often either heuristic in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Felipe Galarza-Jimenez , Majid Zamani , Saber Jafarpour

High-power converters based on elementary switching cells are more and more used in the industry of power electronics owing to various advantages such as lower voltage stress and reduced power loss. However, the complexity of controlling…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-07-16 Gilles Feld , Laurent Fribourg , Denis Labrousse , Bertrand Revol , Romain Soulat

This paper introduces the notion of an Input Constrained Control Barrier Function (ICCBF), as a method to synthesize safety-critical controllers for non-linear control affine systems with input constraints. The method identifies a subset of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-15 Devansh Agrawal , Dimitra Panagou

Motivated by the need for formal guarantees on the stability and safety of controllers for challenging robot control tasks, we present a control design procedure that explicitly seeks to maximize the size of an invariant "funnel" that leads…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Anirudha Majumdar , Amir Ali Ahmadi , Russ Tedrake

The design of tracking controllers that closely follow a reference trajectory while ensuring safety and robustness against disturbances is a challenging problem in the control of autonomous systems. In this work, we propose a neural…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Yuezhu Xu , Mohamed Serry , Jun Liu , S. Sivaranjani

This paper addresses the problem of computing controllers that are correct by design for safety-critical systems and can provably satisfy (complex) functional requirements. We develop new methods for models of systems subject to both…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Oliver Schön , Birgit van Huijgevoort , Sofie Haesaert , Sadegh Soudjani

We present a tool-supported approach for the synthesis, verification and validation of the control software responsible for the safety of the human-robot interaction in manufacturing processes that use collaborative robots. In human-robot…

We provide a novel approach to synthesize controllers for nonlinear continuous dynamical systems with control against safety properties. The controllers are based on neural networks (NNs). To certify the safety property we utilize barrier…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Hengjun Zhao , Xia Zeng , Taolue Chen , Zhiming Liu , Jim Woodcock

In this paper we propose sufficient conditions to synthesizing reach-avoid controllers for deterministic systems modelled by ordinary differential equations and stochastic systems modeled by stochastic differential equations based on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-01 Bai Xue

This paper develops an approach to learn a policy of a dynamical system that is guaranteed to be both provably safe and goal-reaching. Here, the safety means that a policy must not drive the state of the system to any unsafe region, while…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Wanxin Jin , Zhaoran Wang , Zhuoran Yang , Shaoshuai Mou

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Ratnangshu Das , Pushpak Jagtap

In this paper, we present an approach for designing correct-by-design controllers for cyber-physical systems composed of multiple dynamically interconnected uncertain systems. We consider networked discrete-time uncertain nonlinear systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Oliver Schön , Birgit van Huijgevoort , Sofie Haesaert , Sadegh Soudjani

Modern control is implemented with digital microcontrollers, embedded within a dynamical plant that represents physical components. We present a new algorithm based on counter-example guided inductive synthesis that automates the design of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Alessandro Abate , Iury Bessa , Dario Cattaruzza , Lucas Cordeiro , Cristina David , Pascal Kesseli , Daniel Kroening

Incremental stability is a property of dynamical and control systems, requiring the uniform asymptotic stability of every trajectory, rather than that of an equilibrium point or a particular time-varying trajectory. Similarly to stability,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-03 Majid Zamani , Nathan van de Wouw , Rupak Majumdar

This work is concerned with a formal approach for safety controller synthesis of stochastic control systems with both process and measurement noises while considering wireless communication networks between sensors, controllers, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Omid Akbarzadeh , Sadegh Soudjani , Abolfazl Lavaei

We present a novel learning framework to obtain finite-state controllers (FSCs) for partially observable Markov decision processes and illustrate its applicability for indefinite-horizon specifications. Our framework builds on oracle-guided…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Roman Andriushchenko , Milan Ceska , Sebastian Junges , Joost-Pieter Katoen

This work primarily focuses on an operator inference methodology aimed at constructing low-dimensional dynamical models based on a priori hypotheses about their structure, often informed by established physics or expert insights. Stability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Igor Pontes Duff , Pawan Goyal , Peter Benner

Learning-enabled control systems have demonstrated impressive empirical performance on challenging control problems in robotics, but this performance comes at the cost of reduced transparency and lack of guarantees on the safety or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Charles Dawson , Sicun Gao , Chuchu Fan

We consider the problem of verifying safety for continuous-time dynamical systems. Developing upon recent advancements in data-driven verification, we use only a finite number of sampled trajectories to learn a barrier certificate, namely a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Luke Rickard , Alessandro Abate , Kostas Margellos

Software implementations of controllers for physical systems are at the core of many embedded systems. The design of controllers uses the theory of dynamical systems to construct a mathematical control law that ensures that the controlled…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-04-16 Rupak Majumdar , Indranil Saha , Majid Zamani