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Classical Cellular Automata (CCAs) are a powerful computational framework for modeling global spatio-temporal dynamics with local interactions. While CCAs have been applied across numerous scientific fields, identifying the local rule that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Faizal Hafiz , Amelia Kunze , Enrico Formenti , Davide La Torre

We study cellular automata on regular rooted trees. This includes the characterization of sofic tree shifts in terms of unrestricted Rabin automata and the decidability of the surjectivity problem for cellular automata between sofic tree…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-01 Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein , Michel Coornaert , Francesca Fiorenzi , Zoran Sunic

Reachable set computation is an important tool for analyzing control systems. Simulating a control system can show general trends, but a formal tool like reachability analysis can provide guarantees of correctness. Reachability analysis for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-07 Chelsea Sidrane , Jana Tumova

We conduct a brief survey on Wolfram's classification, in particular related to the computing capabilities of Cellular Automata (CA) in Wolfram's classes III and IV. We formulate and shed light on the question of whether Class III systems…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2012-08-31 Genaro J. Martinez , J. C. Seck-Tuoh-Mora , Hector Zenil

Aligning humans' assessment of what a robot can do with its true capability is crucial for establishing a common ground between human and robot partners when they collaborate on a joint task. In this work, we propose an approach to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Xiaofeng Gao , Luyao Yuan , Tianmin Shu , Hongjing Lu , Song-Chun Zhu

Linear quantum cellular automata were introduced recently as one of the models of quantum computing. A basic postulate of quantum mechanics imposes a strong constraint on any quantum machine: it has to be unitary, that is its time evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Christoph Durr , Miklos Santha

This paper presents an in-reachability based classification of invariant synchrony patterns in Coupled Cell Networks (CCNs). These patterns are encoded through partitions on the set of cells, whose subsets of synchronized cells are called…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Pedro M Sequeira , João P Hespanha , António P Aguiar

Cellular automata are discrete and computational models thatcan be shown as general models of complexity. They are used in varied applications to derive the generalized behavior of the presented model. In this paper we have took one such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Karan Nayak

Consider an agent traversing a graph of "gadgets", each with local state that changes with each traversal by the agent. We characterize the complexity of universal traversal, where the goal is to traverse every gadget at least once, for DAG…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Hayashi Ani , Erik Demaine , Jenny Diomidova , Dylan Hendrickson , Jayson Lynch

When designing optimal controllers for any system, it is often the case that the true state of the system is unknown to the controller, for example due to noisy measurements or partially observable states. Incomplete state information must…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-23 Kendra Lesser , Meeko Oishi

Cellular Automata(CA) is a discrete computing model which provides simple, flexible and efficient platform for simulating complicated systems and performing complex computation based on the neighborhoods information. CA consists of two…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-12-12 Debasis Das , Rajiv Misra

A Cellular Automata (CA) is a computing model of complex System using simple rule. In CA the problem space into number of cell and each cell can be one or several final state. Cells are affected by neighbours' to the simple rule. Cellular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-06-15 Debasis Das , Abhishek Ray

We study pushdown systems where control states, stack alphabet, and transition relation, instead of being finite, are first-order definable in a fixed countably-infinite structure. We show that the reachability analysis can be addressed…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-20 Lorenzo Clemente , Sławomir Lasota

Autonomous motion planning under unknown nonlinear dynamics requires learning system properties while navigating toward a target. In this work, we develop a hierarchical planning-control framework that enables online motion synthesis with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Zhiquan Zhang , Melkior Ornik

Cellular automata are a fundamental computational model with applications in mathematics, computer science, and physics. In this work, we explore the study of cellular automata to cases where the universe is a group, introducing the concept…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Tawfiq Hamed , Mohammad Saleh

Multi-priced timed automata (MPTA) are timed automata with observer variables whose derivatives can change from one location to another. Observers are write-only variables, that is, they do not affect the control flow of the automaton; thus…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Andrew Scoones , Mahsa Shirmohammadi , James Worrell

Deep neural networks can be trained to be efficient and effective controllers for dynamical systems; however, the mechanics of deep neural networks are complex and difficult to guarantee. This work presents a general approach for providing…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Kyle D. Julian , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Probabilistic Cellular Automata are extended stochastic systems, widely used for modelling phenomena in many disciplines. The possibility of controlling their behaviour is therefore an important topic. We shall present here an approach to…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2024-03-07 Franco Bagnoli , Sara Dridi , Samira El Yacoubi , Raul Rechtman

Flexible Time is a new formalism for calculations about one-dimensional cellular automata. It unifies the states of a finite number of cells into a single object, even if they occur at different times. This gives greater flexibility to…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2014-03-04 Markus Redeker

Control applications for cyber-physical systems must make reliably safe control decisions in the presence of continuous dynamics as well as stochastic uncertainty. Providing safety guarantees for such systems requires formal modeling and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Joanna Delicaris , Erika Ábrahám , Anne Remke