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We present a robust control framework for time-critical systems in which satisfying real-time constraints robustly is of utmost importance for the safety of the system. Signal Temporal Logic (STL) provides a formal means to express a large…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-15 Alena Rodionova , Lars Lindemann , Manfred Morari , George J. Pappas

The software architecture behind modern autonomous vehicles (AV) is becoming more complex steadily. Safety verification is now an imminent task prior to the large-scale deployment of such convoluted models. For safety-critical tasks in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Aditya Parameshwaran , Yue Wang

In quantum engineering, faults may occur in a quantum control system, which will cause the quantum control system unstable or deteriorate other relevant performance of the system. This note presents an estimator-based fault-tolerant control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Shi Wang , Daoyi Dong

This work presents a theoretical framework for the safety-critical control of time delay systems. The theory of control barrier functions, that provides formal safety guarantees for delay-free systems, is extended to systems with state…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-20 Adam K. Kiss , Tamas G. Molnar , Aaron D. Ames , Gabor Orosz

In this paper, we consider the notion of resilience of a dynamical system, defined by the maximum disturbance a controlled dynamical system can withstand while satisfying given temporal logic specifications. Given a dynamical system and a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Youssef Ait Si , Ratnangshu Das , Negar Monir , Sadegh Soudjani , Pushpak Jagtap , Adnane Saoud

There is an emerging trend in applying deep learning methods to control complex nonlinear systems. This paper considers enhancing the runtime safety of nonlinear systems controlled by neural networks in the presence of disturbance and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Jianglin Lan , Siyuan Zhan , Ron Patton , Xianxian Zhao

An essential part of cyber-physical systems is the online evaluation of real-time data streams. Especially in systems that are intrinsically safety-critical, a dedicated monitoring component inspecting data streams to detect problems at…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Jan Baumeister , Bernd Finkbeiner , Maximilian Schwenger , Hazem Torfah

Online monitoring is an effective validation approach for hybrid systems, that, at runtime, checks whether the (partial) signals of a system satisfy a specification in, e.g., Signal Temporal Logic (STL). The classic STL monitoring is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Zhenya Zhang , Jie An , Paolo Arcaini , Ichiro Hasuo

Ensuring the functional safety of motion planning modules in autonomous vehicles remains a critical challenge, especially when dealing with complex or learning-based software. Online verification has emerged as a promising approach to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Korbinian Moller , Rafael Neher , Marvin Seegert , Johannes Betz

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

We present a mathematical programming-based method for model predictive control of cyber-physical systems subject to signal temporal logic (STL) specifications. We describe the use of STL to specify a wide range of properties of these…

Large Language Model (LLM) agents increasingly operate across domains such as robotics, virtual assistants, and web automation. However, their stochastic decision-making introduces safety risks that are difficult to anticipate during…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Haoyu Wang , Christopher M. Poskitt , Jiali Wei , Jun Sun

Leveraging recent developments in black-box risk-aware verification, we provide three algorithms that generate probabilistic guarantees on (1) optimality of solutions, (2) recursive feasibility, and (3) maximum controller runtimes for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Prithvi Akella , Wyatt Ubellacker , Aaron D. Ames

We study certified runtime monitoring of past-time signal temporal logic (ptSTL) from visual observations under partial observability. The monitor must infer safety-relevant quantities from images and provide finite-sample guarantees, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Bardh Hoxha , Oliver Schön , Hideki Okamoto , Lars Lindemann , Georgios Fainekos

We consider the problem of safety verification and safety-aware controller synthesis for systems with sector bounded nonlinearities. We aim to keep the states of the system within a given safe set under potential actuator and sensor…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Yankai Lin , Michelle S. Chong , Carlos Murguia

This paper concerns the risk-aware control of stochastic systems with temporal logic specifications dynamically assigned during runtime. Conventional risk-aware control typically assumes that all specifications are predefined and remain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-01 Maico H. W. Engelaar , Zengjie Zhang , Mircea Lazar , Sofie Haesaert

Automatic synthesis from linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications is widely used in robotic motion planning, control of autonomous systems, and load distribution in power networks. A common specification pattern in such applications…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Rayna Dimitrova , Mahsa Ghasemi , Ufuk Topcu

Large language model (LLM) agents are vulnerable to prompt-injection attacks that propagate through multi-step workflows, tool interactions, and persistent context, making input-output filtering alone insufficient for reliable protection.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hailin Liu , Eugene Ilyushin , Jie Ni , Min Zhu

In this paper, we provide a Dynamic Programming algorithm for on-line monitoring of the state robustness of Metric Temporal Logic specifications with past time operators. We compute the robustness of MTL with unbounded past and bounded…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-08-04 Adel Dokhanchi , Bardh Hoxha , Georgios Fainekos

In this paper, we describe a novel approach for checking safety specifications of a dynamical system with exogenous inputs over infinite time horizon that is guaranteed to terminate in finite time with a conclusive answer. We introduce the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-01-04 Amit Bhatia , Emilio Frazzoli