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Finding a controlled-invariant set for a system with state and control constraints is crucial for safety-critical applications. However, existing methods often produce overly conservative solutions. This paper presents a method for…

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In this work, we propose a data-driven scheme within a compositional framework with noisy data to design robust safety controllers in a fully decentralized fashion for large-scale interconnected networks with unknown mathematical dynamics.…

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This work develops a theoretical framework for safety controller synthesis in discrete-time stochastic nonlinear polynomial systems subject to time-invariant delays (dt-SNPS-td). While safety analysis of stochastic systems using control…

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In this work, we present a compositional safety controller synthesis approach for the class of discrete-time linear control systems. Here, we leverage a state-of-the-art result on the computation of robust controlled invariant sets. To…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Siyuan Liu , Majid Zamani

Ensuring constraint satisfaction in large-scale systems with hard constraints is vital in many safety critical systems. The challenge is to design controllers that are efficiently synthesized offline, easily implementable online, and…

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This paper studies satisfying temporal logic specifications on stochastic dynamical systems, where the predicates evolve randomly over time. Such randomness may arise from uncertain environment models or external stochastic processes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Mohammad H. Mamduhi , Sadegh Soudjani

In this paper, we revisit the formal verification problem for stochastic dynamical systems over finite horizon using barrier certificates. Most existing work on this topic focuses on safety properties by constructing barrier certificates…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Yu Chen , Shaoyuan Li , Xiang Yin

Infinite networks are complex interconnected systems comprising a countably infinite number of subsystems, for which no fixed upper bound on the number of participating subsystems is specified a priori since it may vary over time as agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Mahdieh Zaker , Amy Nejati , Abolfazl Lavaei

Reach-avoid analysis is fundamental to reasoning about the safety and goal-reaching behavior of dynamical systems, and serves as a foundation for specifying and verifying more complex control objectives. This paper introduces a reach-avoid…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Rayan Mazouz , Luca Laurenti , Morteza Lahijanian

A barrier certificate often serves as an inductive invariant that isolates an unsafe region from the reachable set of states, and hence is widely used in proving safety of hybrid systems possibly over an infinite time horizon. We present a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Qiuye Wang , Mingshuai Chen , Bai Xue , Naijun Zhan , Joost-Pieter Katoen

Many systems occurring in real-world applications, such as controlling the motions of robots or modeling the spread of diseases, are switched impulsive systems. To ensure that the system state stays in a safe region (e.g., to avoid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Katharina Bieker , Hugo Tadashi Kussaba , Philipp Scholl , Jaesug Jung , Abdalla Swikir , Sami Haddadin , Gitta Kutyniok

This paper presents a new approach for guaranteed safety subject to input constraints (e.g., actuator limits) using a composition of multiple control barrier functions (CBFs). First, we present a method for constructing a single CBF from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Pedram Rabiee , Jesse B. Hoagg

Interconnected systems such as power systems and chemical processes are often required to satisfy safety properties in the presence of faults and attacks. Verifying safety of these systems, however, is computationally challenging due to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Luyao Niu , Abdullah Al Maruf , Andrew Clark , J. Sukarno Mertoguno , Radha Poovendran

In this paper, we present an algorithm for synthesizing certificates---so-called barrier certificates---for safety of hybrid dynamical systems. Unlike the usual approach of using constraint solvers to compute the certificate from the system…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Stefan Ratschan

In this article, the problem of synthesizing switching controllers is considered through the synthesis of a "control certificate". Control certificates include control barrier and Lyapunov functions, which represent control strategies, and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-11 Hadi Ravanbakhsh , Sriram Sankaranarayanan

This paper proposes a (control) barrier function synthesis and safety verification scheme for interconnected nonlinear systems based on assume-guarantee contracts (AGC) and sum-of-squares (SOS) techniques. It is well-known that the SOS…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-29 Xiao Tan , Antonis Papachristodoulou , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper introduces the notion of an Input Constrained Control Barrier Function (ICCBF), as a method to synthesize safety-critical controllers for non-linear control affine systems with input constraints. The method identifies a subset of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-15 Devansh Agrawal , Dimitra Panagou

A barrier certificate can separate the state space of a con- sidered hybrid system (HS) into safe and unsafe parts ac- cording to the safety property to be verified. Therefore this notion has been widely used in the verification of HSs. A…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-10-25 Liyun Dai , Ting Gan , Bican Xia , Naijun Zhan

This paper is concerned with a compositional approach for constructing finite Markov decision processes of interconnected discrete-time stochastic control systems. The proposed approach leverages the interconnection topology and a notion of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Abolfazl Lavaei , Sadegh Soudjani , Majid Zamani

In this paper we propose a compositional framework for the construction of approximations of the interconnection of a class of stochastic hybrid systems. As special cases, this class of systems includes both jump linear stochastic systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-26 Majid Zamani , Matthias Rungger , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani