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Reducing the computation time of model predictive control (MPC) is important, especially for systems constrained by many state constraints. In this paper, we propose a new online constraint removal framework for linear systems, for which we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-29 S. A. N. Nouwens , M. M. Paulides , W. P. M. H. Heemels

This paper presents two explicit Model Predictive Control formulations for linear systems parameterized in terms of design variables. Such parameter dependent behavior commonly arises from operating point dependent linearization of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Carlos J. G. Rojas , Esteban Lage Cano , Leyla Özkan

Verification of temporal logic properties plays a crucial role in proving the desired behaviors of hybrid systems. In this paper, we propose an interval method for verifying the properties described by a bounded linear temporal logic. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Daisuke Ishii , Naoki Yonezaki , Alexandre Goldsztejn

Model Predictive Control (MPC) can efficiently control constrained systems in real-time applications. MPC feedback law for a linear system with linear inequality constraints can be explicitly computed off-line, which results in an off-line…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Andrew Knyazev , Peizhen Zhu , Stefano Di Cairano

We present abstraction-refinement algorithms for model checking safety properties of timed automata. The abstraction domain we consider abstracts away zones by restricting the set of clock constraints that can be used to define them, while…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Victor Roussanaly , Ocan Sankur , Nicolas Markey

We investigate the satisfaction of specifications in Prompt Linear Temporal Logic (Prompt-LTL) by concurrent systems. Prompt-LTL is an extension of LTL that allows to specify parametric bounds on the satisfaction of eventualities, thus…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Swen Jacobs , Mouhammad Sakr , Martin Zimmermann

In this paper we revisit the well-known technique of predicate abstraction to characterise performance attributes of system models incorporating probability. We recast the theory using expectation transformers, and identify transformer…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-06-29 Ukachukwu Ndukwu , Annabelle McIver

We propose a novel methodology for validating software product line (PL) models by integrating Statistical Model Checking (SMC) with Process Mining (PM). Our approach focuses on the feature-oriented language QFLan in the PL engineering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Roberto Casaluce , Andrea Burattin , Francesca Chiaromonte , Alberto Lluch Lafuente , Andrea Vandin

We present a bounded model checking algorithm for signal temporal logic (STL) that exploits mixed-integer linear programming (MILP). A key technical element is our novel MILP encoding of the STL semantics; it follows the idea of stable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Sota Sato , Jie An , Zhenya Zhang , Ichiro Hasuo

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a successful control methodology, which is applied to increasingly complex systems. However, real-time feasibility of MPC can be challenging for complex systems, certainly when an (extremely) large number…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 S. A. N. Nouwens , B. de Jager , M. M. Paulides , W. P. M. H. Heemels

The implementation of digital filters in processors based on fixed-point arithmetic can lead to problems related to the finite word-length. In particular, the processing of signals in such filters can produce overflows and unwanted noise…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-07-24 Renato B. Abreu , Lucas Cordeiro , Eddie B. L. Filho

In this paper we introduce a novel way to speed up the discovery of counterexamples in bounded model checking, based on parallel runs over versions of a system in which features have been randomly disabled. As shown in previous work, adding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Mohammad Amin Alipour , Alex Groce

Abstraction (in its various forms) is a powerful established technique in model-checking; still, when unbounded data-structures are concerned, it cannot always cope with divergence phenomena in a satisfactory way. Acceleration is an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-10-04 Francesco Alberti , Silvio Ghilardi , Natasha Sharygina

Linear max-plus systems describe the behavior of a large variety of complex systems. It is known that these systems show a periodic behavior after an initial transient phase. Assessment of the length of this transient phase provides…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-09-18 Bernadette Charron-Bost , Matthias Függer , Thomas Nowak

This paper presents the first model-checking algorithm for an expressive modal mu-calculus over timed automata, $L^{\mathit{rel}, \mathit{af}}_{\nu,\mu}$, and reports performance results for an implementation. This mu-calculus contains…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-29 Peter Fontana , Rance Cleaveland

Predicate abstraction is a key enabling technology for applying finite-state model checkers to programs written in mainstream languages. It has been used very successfully for debugging sequential system-level C code. Although model…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Alastair Donaldson , Alexander Kaiser , Daniel Kroening , Thomas Wahl

A predicate linear temporal logic LTL_{\lambda,=} without quantifiers but with predicate abstraction mechanism and equality is considered. The models of LTL_{\lambda,=} can be naturally seen as the systems of pebbles (flexible constants)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Alexei Lisitsa , Igor Potapov

Model checking has found a role in the engineering of reactive systems. However, model checkers are still strongly limited by the size of the system description they can check. Here we present a technique in which a system is simplified…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Glenn Bruns

We consider the problem of bounded model checking (BMC) for linear temporal logic (LTL). We present several efficient encodings that have size linear in the bound. Furthermore, we show how the encodings can be extended to LTL with past…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Armin Biere , Keijo Heljanko , Tommi Junttila , Timo Latvala , Viktor Schuppan

Verifying LLM-generated systems code is hard: bugs are prevalent, formal specifications are missing, and safety contracts are encoded implicitly at call sites rather than enforced at function boundaries. We propose agentic model checking, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Youcheng Sun , Jiawen Liu , Daniel Kroening , Jason Xue