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This paper introduces a new framework for synthesizing time-varying control barrier functions (TV-CBFs) for general Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications using spatiotemporal tubes (STT). We first formulate the STT synthesis as a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Ratnangshu Das , Subhodeep Choudhury , Pushpak Jagtap

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) is a widely recognized formal specification language to express rigorous temporal requirements on mixed analog signals produced by cyber-physical systems (CPS). A relevant problem in CPS design is how to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Beatrice Melani , Ezio Bartocci , Michele Chiari

This paper proposes an optimization-based task and motion planning framework, named "Logic Network Flow", to integrate signal temporal logic (STL) specifications into efficient mixed-binary linear programmings. In this framework, temporal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Xuan Lin , Jiming Ren , Samuel Coogan , Ye Zhao

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown promise in various robotics applications, yet its deployment on real systems is still limited due to safety and operational constraints. The safe RL field has gained considerable attention in recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Sadık Bera Yüksel , Ali Tevfik Buyukkocak , Derya Aksaray

This paper presents a methodology for temporal logic verification of discrete-time stochastic systems. Our goal is to find a lower bound on the probability that a complex temporal property is satisfied by finite traces of the system.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Pushpak Jagtap , Sadegh Soudjani , Majid Zamani

In this work, we propose a novel approach for the continuous-time control synthesis of nonlinear systems under nested signal temporal logic (STL) specifications. While the majority of existing literature focuses on control synthesis for STL…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-24 Pian Yu , Xiao Tan , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper considers the safety-critical navigation problem with Signal Temporal Logic (STL) tasks. We developed an explicit reference governor-guided control barrier function (ERG-guided CBF) method that enables the application of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-10 Kaier Liang , Mingyu Cai , Cristian-Ioan Vasile

In this paper, we investigate the problem of Model Predictive Control (MPC) of dynamic systems for high-level specifications described by Signal Temporal Logic (STL) formulae. Recent works show that MPC has the great potential in handling…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Xinyi Yu , Chuwei Wang , Dingran Yuan , Shaoyuan Li , Xiang Yin

This paper studies the online control synthesis problem for uncertain discrete-time systems subject to signal temporal logic (STL) specifications. Different from existing techniques, this work proposes an approach based on STL, reachability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Pian Yu , Yulong Gao , Frank J. Jiang , Karl H. Johansson , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Metric Temporal Logic (MTL) is a popular formalism to specify temporal patterns with timing constraints over the behavior of cyber-physical systems with application areas ranging in property-based testing, robotics, optimization, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Dogan Ulus

In this paper, we consider the problem of synthesizing a controller in the presence of uncertainty such that the resulting closed-loop system satisfies certain hard constraints while optimizing certain (soft) performance objectives. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-17 Navid Hashemi , Xin Qin , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh , Georgios Fainekos , Bardh Hoxha , Danil Prokhorov , Tomoya Yamaguchi

Temporal logic has been widely used to express complex task specifications for cyber-physical systems (CPSs). One way to synthesize a controller for CPS under temporal logic constraints is to first abstract the CPS as a discrete transition…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Luyao Niu , Andrew Clark

Continuous-time control of multiple quadrotors in constrained environments under signal temporal logic (STL) specifications is critical due to their nonlinear dynamics, safety constraints, and the requirement to ensure continuous-time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Yating Yuan , Yu Liu

Ensuring safety and meeting temporal specifications are critical challenges for long-term robotic tasks. Signal temporal logic (STL) has been widely used to systematically and rigorously specify these requirements. However, traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Yue Meng , Chuchu Fan

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) is a widely adopted specification language in cyber-physical systems for expressing critical temporal requirements, such as safety conditions and response time. However, STL's expressivity is not sufficient to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hongkai Chen , Zeyu Zhang , Shouvik Roy , Ezio Bartocci , Scott A. Smolka , Scott D. Stoller , Shan Lin

Real-world scenarios are characterized by timing uncertainties, e.g., delays, and disturbances. Algorithms with temporal robustness are crucial in guaranteeing the successful execution of tasks and missions in such scenarios. We study…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Nhan-Khanh Le , Erfaun Noorani , Sandra Hirche , John Baras

Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) have been used to enforce safety and task specifications expressed in Signal Temporal Logic (STL). However, existing CBF-STL approaches typically rely on fixed hyperparameters and per-step optimization,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Wenliang Liu , Shuo Liu , Wei Xiao , Calin A. Belta

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

In this paper, we develop safe reinforcement-learning-based controllers for systems tasked with accomplishing complex missions that can be expressed as linear temporal logic specifications, similar to those required by search-and-rescue…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 Aris Kanellopoulos , Filippos Fotiadis , Chuangchuang Sun , Zhe Xu , Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis , Ufuk Topcu , Warren E. Dixon

This letter aims to generate a continuous-time trajectory consisting of piecewise B\'ezier curves that satisfy signal temporal logic (STL) specifications with piecewise time-varying robustness. Our time-varying robustness is less…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yating Yuan , Thanin Quartz , Jun Liu