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We extend previous work on symbolic self-triggered control for non-deterministic continuous-time nonlinear systems without stability assumptions to a larger class of specifications. Our goal is to synthesise a controller for two objectives:…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Sasinee Pruekprasert , Clovis Eberhart , Jérémy Dubut

We investigate the problem of controller synthesis for hyperproperties specified in the temporal logic HyperLTL. Hyperproperties are system properties that relate multiple execution traces. Hyperproperties can elegantly express…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Bernd Finkbeiner

This paper presents a new approach to design verified compositions of Neural Network (NN) controllers for autonomous systems with tasks captured by Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formulas. Particularly, the LTL formula requires the system to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Jun Wang , Samarth Kalluraya , Yiannis Kantaros

This paper presents a method for control synthesis under spatio-temporal constraints. First, we consider the problem of reaching a set $S$ in a user-defined or prescribed time $T$. We define a new class of control Lyapunov functions, called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Kunal Garg , Dimitra Panagou

In this article, we consider the problem of synthesizing switching controllers for temporal properties through the composition of simple primitive reach-while-stay (RWS) properties. Reach-while-stay properties specify that the system states…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Hadi Ravanbakhsh , Sriram Sankaranarayanan

We propose a symbolic self-triggered controller synthesis procedure for non-deterministic continuous-time nonlinear systems without stability assumptions. The goal is to compute a controller that satisfies two objectives. The first…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Sasinee Pruekprasert , Clovis Eberhart , Jérémy Dubut

Successfully synthesizing controllers for complex dynamical systems and specifications often requires leveraging domain knowledge as well as making difficult computational or mathematical tradeoffs. This paper presents a flexible and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Eric S. Kim , Murat Arcak , Sanjit A. Seshia

Recent advancements in large pre-trained transformer models (GPT2/3, T5) have found use in program synthesis to generate programs that satisfy a set of input/output examples. However, these models perform poorly on long-horizon and low-data…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Jack Roper

Among the various critical systems that worth to be formally analyzed, a wide set consists of controllers for dynamical systems. Those programs typically execute an infinite loop in which simple com putations update internal states and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-18 Assalé Adje , Pierre-Loïc Garoche

We formalize synthesis of shared control protocols with correctness guarantees for temporal logic specifications. More specifically, we introduce a modeling formalism in which both a human and an autonomy protocol can issue commands to a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Nils Jansen , Murat Cubuktepe , Ufuk Topcu

This paper presents the positive real analysis and synthesis for Networked Control Systems (NCS) in discrete time. Based on the definition of passivity, the sufficient condition of NCS is given by stochastic Lyapunov functional. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2008-05-01 Bambang Riyanto , Imam Arifin

We present an algorithm of control synthesis for nonlinear switched systems, based on an existing procedure of state-space bisection and made available for nonlinear systems with the help of validated simulation. The use of validated…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Adrien Le Coënt , Julien Alexandre Dit Sandretto , Alexandre Chapoutot , Laurent Fribourg

In this paper, a method to synthesize controllers using finite time convergence control barrier functions guided by linear temporal logic specifications for continuous time multi-agent dynamical systems is proposed. Finite time convergence…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Mohit Srinivasan , Samuel Coogan , Magnus Egerstedt

In the formal approach to reactive controller synthesis, a symbolic controller for a possibly hybrid system is obtained by algorithmically computing a winning strategy in a two-player game. Such game-solving algorithms scale poorly as the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Anne-Kathrin Schmuck , Rupak Majumdar

In this paper, we present how to synthesize controllers to enforce $\omega$-regular properties over linear control systems affected by bounded disturbances. In particular, these controllers are synthesized based on so-called hybrid…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Bingzhuo Zhong , Majid Zamani , Marco Caccamo

In this paper we propose dynamic output-feedback controller synthesis methods for discrete-time linear time-invariant systems. The synthesis goal is either to achieve dissipativity with respect to a given quadratic supply rate, or to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Pietro Kristović , Andrej Jokić , Mircea Lazar

This paper proposes a novel method for distributed controller synthesis of homogeneous interconnected systems consisting of identical subsystems. The objective of the designed controller is to minimize the L2-gain of the performance…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-14 Giulia De Pasquale , Yvonne R. Sturz , Maria Elena Valcher , Roy S. Smith

In this work, we present a test-driven, agentic framework for synthesizing a deployable low-level robot controller for navigation tasks. Given a 2D map with an image of an ultrasonic sensor-based robot, or a 3D robotic simulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shivanshu Tripathi , Reza Akbarian Bafghi , Maziar Raissi

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

Through the use of the Fundamental Lemma for linear systems, a direct data-driven state-feedback control synthesis method is presented for a rather general class of nonlinear (NL) systems. The core idea is to develop a data-driven…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-24 Chris Verhoek , Patrick J. W. Koelewijn , Sofie Haesaert , Roland Tóth