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This paper addresses the planning and control problem for nonlinear systems under Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications. We first decompose an STL task into finite local tasks. A sampling-based method generates sequences of local…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Zuodong Pan , Xu Fang , Wei Ren

This paper investigates the problem of designing control policies that satisfy high-level specifications described by signal temporal logic (STL) in unknown, stochastic environments. While many existing works concentrate on optimizing the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-16 Siqi Wang , Shaoyuan Li , Li Yin , Xiang Yin

Temporal Logic (TL) guided control problems have gained interests in recent years. By using the TL, one can specify a wide range of temporal constraints on the system and is widely used in cyber-physical systems. On the other hand, Control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Guang Yang , Roberto Tron , Calin Belta

This work presents a novel co-design strategy that integrates trajectory planning and control to handle STL-based tasks in autonomous robots. The method consists of two phases: $(i)$ learning spatio-temporal motion primitives to encapsulate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Manas Sashank Juvvi , Tushar Dilip Kurne , Vaishnavi J , Shishir Kolathaya , Pushpak Jagtap

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

There are spatio-temporal rules that dictate how robots should operate in complex environments, e.g., road rules govern how (self-driving) vehicles should behave on the road. However, seamlessly incorporating such rules into a robot control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Karen Leung , Marco Pavone

Most control synthesis methods under temporal logic properties require a model of the system, however, identifying such a model can be a challenging task. In this work, we develop a direct data-driven control synthesis method for temporal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-05 Birgit C. van Huijgevoort , Chris Verhoek , Roland Tóth , Sofie Haesaert

This paper investigates continuous-time motion planning under Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications. The goal is to generate smooth robot trajectories that satisfy high-level logical and timing requirements while respecting low-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yu Chen , Ancheng Hou , Mingyang Feng , Xiao Yu , Xiang Yin

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

Trajectory planning is a critical process that enables autonomous systems to safely navigate complex environments. Signal temporal logic (STL) specifications are an effective way to encode complex temporally extended objectives for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-20 Parv Kapoor , Eunsuk Kang , Romulo Meira-Goes

In this paper, we present an optimization based method for path planning of a mobile robot subject to time bounded temporal constraints, in a dynamic environment. Temporal logic (TL) can address very complex task specification such as…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Yuchen Zhou , Dipankar Maity , John S. Baras

Motion planning classically concerns the problem of accomplishing a goal configuration while avoiding obstacles. However, the need for more sophisticated motion planning methodologies, taking temporal aspects into account, has emerged. To…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Lars Lindemann , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Autonomous systems embedded with machine learning modules often rely on deep neural networks for classifying different objects of interest in the environment or different actions or strategies to take for the system. Due to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Zhe Xu

We present a new approach for the design of a synthetic biological circuit whose behaviour is specified in terms of signal temporal logic (STL) formulae. We first show how to characterise with STL formulae the input/output behaviour of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-20 Ezio Bartocci , Luca Bortolussi , Laura Nenzi

In this paper, we propose a framework for the control of mobile robots subject to temporal logic specifications using barrier functions. Complex task specifications can be conveniently encoded using linear temporal logic. In particular, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Mohit Srinivasan , Samuel Coogan

We design controllers from formal specifications for positive discrete-time monotone systems that are subject to bounded disturbances. Such systems are widely used to model the dynamics of transportation and biological networks. The…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Sadra Sadraddini , Calin Belta

Discrete-time stochastic systems with continuous spaces are hard to verify and control, even with MDP abstractions due to the curse of dimensionality. We propose an abstraction-based framework with robust dynamic programming mappings that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Ruohan Wang , Siyuan Liu , Zhiyong Sun , Sofie Haesaert

This paper studies an optimal control problem for continuous-time stochastic systems subject to reachability objectives specified in a subclass of metric interval temporal logic specifications, a temporal logic with real-time constraints.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Jie Fu , Ufuk Topcu

A framework for the event-triggered control synthesis under signal temporal logic (STL) tasks is proposed. In our previous work, a continuous-time feedback control law was designed, using the prescribed performance control technique, to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 Lars Lindemann , Dipankar Maity , John S. Baras , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Automated temporal planning is the technology of choice when controlling systems that can execute more actions in parallel and when temporal constraints, such as deadlines, are needed in the model. One limitation of several action-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Alessandro Valentini , Andrea Micheli , Alessandro Cimatti