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This paper presents a novel framework for inferring timed temporal logic properties from data. The dataset comprises pairs of finite-time system traces and corresponding labels, denoting whether the traces demonstrate specific desired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Kaier Liang , Gustavo A. Cardona , Disha Kamale , Cristian-Ioan Vasile

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

We propose a human-supervised control synthesis method for a stochastic Dubins vehicle such that the probability of satisfying a specification given as a formula in a fragment of Probabilistic Computational Tree Logic (PCTL) over a set of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-07-12 Igor Cizelj , Calin Belta

Signal Temporal Logic (STL), has recently seen extensive development, owing to its rich expressivenes for autonomous planning and control. Nevertheless, existing verification and control synthesis methods are limited with respect to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Panagiotis Rousseas , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In this paper, we consider the automated planning of optimal paths for a robotic team satisfying a high level mission specification. Each robot in the team is modeled as a weighted transition system where the weights have associated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Alphan Ulusoy , Stephen L. Smith , Calin Belta

Optimizing high-level mission planning constraints is traditionally solved in exponential time and requires to split the problem into several ones, making the connections between them a convoluted task. This paper aims at generalizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Thomas Claudet , Davide Martire , Damiana Losa , Francesco Sanfedino , Daniel Alazard

We present a method to generate a robot control strategy that maximizes the probability to accomplish a task. The task is given as a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula over a set of properties that can be satisfied at the regions of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Xu Chu Ding , Stephen L. Smith , Calin Belta , Daniela Rus

This paper proposes a new highly scalable and asymptotically optimal control synthesis algorithm from linear temporal logic specifications, called $\text{STyLuS}^{*}$ for large-Scale optimal Temporal Logic Synthesis, that is designed to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Yiannis Kantaros , Michael M. Zavlanos

This letter proposes a learning-based bounded synthesis for a semi-Markov decision process (SMDP) with a linear temporal logic (LTL) specification. In the product of the SMDP and the deterministic $K$-co-B\"uchi automaton (d$K$cBA)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Ryohei Oura , Toshimitsu Ushio

Bayesian synthetic likelihood (BSL) is now a well established method for performing approximate Bayesian parameter estimation for simulation-based models that do not possess a tractable likelihood function. BSL approximates an intractable…

Computation · Statistics 2019-10-04 Ziwen An , David J. Nott , Christopher Drovandi

We study the problem of policy optimization (PO) with linear temporal logic (LTL) constraints. The language of LTL allows flexible description of tasks that may be unnatural to encode as a scalar cost function. We consider LTL-constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Cameron Voloshin , Hoang M. Le , Swarat Chaudhuri , Yisong Yue

We address multi-robot motion planning under Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications with kinodynamic constraints. Exact approaches face scalability bottlenecks and limited adaptability, while conventional sampling-based methods require…

This study proposes a novel planning framework based on a model predictive control formulation that incorporates signal temporal logic (STL) specifications for task completion guarantees and robustness quantification. This marks the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Zhaoyuan Gu , Rongming Guo , William Yates , Yipu Chen , Ye Zhao

In this paper, we investigate the problem of synthesizing strategies for linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications that are interpreted over finite traces -- a problem that is central to the automated construction of controllers, robot…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Alberto Camacho , Meghyn Bienvenu , Sheila A. McIlraith

Symbolic control problems aim to synthesize control policies for dynamical systems under complex temporal specifications. For such problems, Signal Temporal Logic (STL) is increasingly used as the formal specification language due to its…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Shirantha Welikala , Hai Lin , Panos J. Antsaklis

In this work, we propose a novel method to find temporal properties that lead to the unexpected behaviors from labeled dataset. We express these properties in past time Signal Temporal Logic (ptSTL). First, we present a novel approach for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Mert Ergurtuna , Ebru Aydin Gol

Many systems are naturally modeled as Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), combining probabilities and strategic actions. Given a model of a system as an MDP and some logical specification of system behavior, the goal of synthesis is to find a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Andrew M. Wells , Morteza Lahijanian , Lydia E. Kavraki , Moshe Y. Vardi

We present a compositional control synthesis method based on assume-guarantee contracts with application to correct-by-construction design of vehicular mission plans. In our approach, a mission-level specification expressed in a fragment of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-22 Muhammad Waqas , Nikhil Vijay Naik , Petros Ioannou , Pierluigi Nuzzo

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) inference seeks to extract human-interpretable rules from time-series data, but existing methods lack formal confidence guarantees for the inferred rules. Conformal prediction (CP) is a technique that can provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Danyang Li , Yixuan Wang , Matthew Cleaveland , Mingyu Cai , Roberto Tron

Motion planning for autonomous vehicles often requires satisfying multiple conditionally conflicting specifications. In situations where not all specifications can be met simultaneously, minimum-violation motion planning maintains system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Patrick Halder , Lothar Kiltz , Hannes Homburger , Johannes Reuter , Matthias Althoff