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Program synthesis aims to {\it automatically} find programs from an underlying programming language that satisfy a given specification. While this has the potential to revolutionize computing, how to search over the vast space of programs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Yuan Yuan , Wolfgang Banzhaf

This letter presents a framework for synthesizing a robust full-state feedback controller for systems with unknown nonlinearities. Our approach characterizes input-output behavior of the nonlinearities in terms of local norm bounds using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Sze Kwan Cheah , Diganta Bhattacharjee , Maziar S. Hemati , Ryan J. Caverly

We develop a novel adaptation-based technique for safe control design in the presence of multiple control barrier function (CBF) constraints. Specifically, we introduce an approach for synthesizing any number of candidate CBFs into one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Mitchell Black , Dimitra Panagou

We consider the problem of designing distributed controllers to guarantee dissipativity of a networked system comprised of dynamically coupled subsystems. We require that the control synthesis is carried out locally at the subsystem-level,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Etika Agarwal , S. Sivaranjani , Vijay Gupta , Panos Antsaklis

We offer a compositional data-driven scheme for synthesizing controllers that ensure global asymptotic stability (GAS) across large-scale interconnected networks, characterized by unknown mathematical models. In light of each network's…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Mahdieh Zaker , Amy Nejati , Abolfazl Lavaei

In this paper, we introduce the problem of synthesizing optimal controllers for discrete event systems and we propose a procedure for solving this problem, where the method and specifications are represented by finite state automata and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-03 Jean Marie Moanda Ndeko , Junior Jugis Bakola Mongo

The paper addresses the problem of controller synthesis for control-affine nonlinear systems to meet reach-avoid-stay specifications. Specifically, the goal of the research is to obtain a closed-form control law ensuring that the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Ratnangshu Das , Pushpak Jagtap

In component-based program synthesis, the synthesizer generates a program given a library of components (functions). Existing component-based synthesizers have difficulty synthesizing loops and other control structures, and they often…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Kensen Shi , Jacob Steinhardt , Percy Liang

Threshold automata are a formalism for modeling and analyzing fault-tolerant distributed algorithms, recently introduced by Konnov, Veith, and Widder, describing protocols executed by a fixed but arbitrary number of processes. We conduct…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-02 A. R. Balasubramanian , Javier Esparza , Marijana Lazic

This paper addresses data-driven control of continuous-time systems. We develop a framework based on synthesis operators associated with input and state trajectories. A key advantage of the proposed method is that it does not require the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Masashi Wakaiki

This article describes the application of a credible autocoding framework for control systems towards a nonlinear car controller example. The framework generates code, along with guarantees of high level functional properties about the code…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-08-28 Timothy Wang , Eric Feron

Temporal synthesis attempts to construct reactive programs that satisfy a given declarative (LTL) formula. Practitioners have found it challenging to work exclusively with declarative specifications, and have found languages that combine…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Shaun Azzopardi , Nir Piterman , Gerardo Schneider

Symbolic control is an abstraction-based controller synthesis approach that provides, algorithmically, certifiable-by-construction controllers for cyber-physical systems. Symbolic control approaches usually assume that full-state…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Mahmoud Khaled , Kuize Zhang , Majid Zamani

In this paper we consider the safety verification and safe controller synthesis problems for nonlinear control systems. The Control Barrier Certificates (CBC) approach is proposed as an extension to the Barrier certificates approach. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-22 Han Wang , Kostas Margellos , Antonis Papachristodoulou

In this paper, we present a Lyapunov-based homogeneous controller for the stabilization of a perturbed chain of integrators of arbitrary order $r\geq 1$. The proposed controller is based on homogeneous controller for stabilization of pure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-14 Mohamed Harmouche , Salah Laghrouche , Yacine Chitour

Threshold automata are a formalism for modeling fault-tolerant distributed algorithms. The main feature of threshold automata is the notion of a threshold guard, which allows us to compare the number of received messages with the total…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-01 A. R. Balasubramanian

The control Lyapunov function (CLF) approach to nonlinear control design is well established. Moreover, when the plant is control affine and polynomial, sum-of-squares (SOS) optimization can be used to find a polynomial controller as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Jason J. Bramburger , Steven Dahdah , James Richard Forbes

In formal synthesis of reactive systems an implementation of a system is automatically constructed from its formal specification. The great advantage of synthesis is that the resulting implementation is correct by construction; therefore…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Hadas Kress-Gazit , Hazem Torfah

This article presents a scalable implementation of nonlinear Gramian-based control synthesis for control-affine systems, including a minimum energy control construction. These synthesis advances are achieved by addressing key computational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Zongxi Yu , Cyprien Tamekue , Ruiqi Chen , ShiNung Ching

We introduce a counter-example guided inductive synthesis (CEGIS) framework for synthesizing continuous-time switching controllers that guarantee reach while stay (RWS) properties of the closed loop system. The solution is based on…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Hadi Ravanbakhsh , Sriram Sankaranarayanan