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Recent work has considered trust-aware decision making for human-robot collaboration (HRC) with a focus on model learning. In this paper, we are interested in enabling the HRC system to complete complex tasks specified using temporal logic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Pian Yu , Shuyang Dong , Shili Sheng , Lu Feng , Marta Kwiatkowska

This paper addresses the online motion planning problem of mobile robots under complex high-level tasks. The robot motion is modeled as an uncertain Markov Decision Process (MDP) due to limited initial knowledge, while the task is specified…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Yuyang Zhang , Meng Guo

LTLf synthesis under partial observability requires reasoning about unobservable environment variables, which is typically handled by constructing a belief-state DFA via subset construction that universally quantifies these variables.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Nadav Alon , Supratik Chakraborty , Alexandre Duret-Lutz , Dror Fried , Lucas M. Tabajara , Moshe Y. Vardi , Shufang Zhu

This work studies the planning problem for robotic systems under both quantifiable and unquantifiable uncertainty. The objective is to enable the robotic systems to optimally fulfill high-level tasks specified by Linear Temporal Logic (LTL)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Pian Yu , Yong Li , David Parker , Marta Kwiatkowska

Reactive synthesis from high-level specifications that combine hard constraints expressed in Linear Temporal Logic LTL with soft constraints expressed by discounted-sum (DS) rewards has applications in planning and reinforcement learning.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Suguman Bansal , Lydia Kavraki , Moshe Y. Vardi , Andrew Wells

This paper marries two state-of-the-art controller synthesis methods for partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs), a prominent model in sequential decision making under uncertainty. A central issue is to find a POMDP…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Roman Andriushchenko , Alexander Bork , Milan Češka , Sebastian Junges , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Filip Macák

Lossy channel systems (LCSs) are systems of finite state automata that communicate via unreliable unbounded fifo channels. In order to circumvent the undecidability of model checking for nondeterministic LCSs, probabilistic models have been…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Christel Baier , Nathalie Bertrand , Philippe Schnoebelen

This paper presents an algorithmic framework for control synthesis of continuous dynamical systems subject to signal temporal logic (STL) specifications. We propose a novel algorithm to obtain a time-partitioned finite automaton from an STL…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Qi Heng Ho , Roland B. Ilyes , Zachary N. Sunberg , Morteza Lahijanian

In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm for the parameter synthesis of PLTL formulas with respect to parametric Markov chains. The PLTL formula is translated to an almost fully partitioned B\"uchi automaton which is then composed…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Yong Li , Wanwei Liu , Andrea Turrini , Ernst Moritz Hahn , Lijun Zhang

We develop a probabilistic control algorithm, $\texttt{GTLProCo}$, for swarms of agents with heterogeneous dynamics and objectives, subject to high-level task specifications. The resulting algorithm not only achieves decentralized control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-01 Franck Djeumou , Zhe Xu , Murat Cubuktepe , Ufuk Topcu

Synthesizing a reactive system from specifications given in linear temporal logic (LTL) is a classical problem, finding its applications in safety-critical systems design. We present our tool SemML, which won this year's LTL realizability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Jan Kretinsky , Tobias Meggendorfer , Maximilian Prokop , Ashkan Zarkhah

In many real-world decision problems there is partially observed, hidden or latent information that remains fixed throughout an interaction. Such decision problems can be modeled as Latent Markov Decision Processes (LMDPs), where a latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Jeongyeol Kwon , Shie Mannor , Constantine Caramanis , Yonathan Efroni

In this paper, we present a control framework that allows magnetic microrobot teams to accomplish complex micromanipulation tasks captured by global Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formulas. To address this problem, we propose an optimal…

In this paper, we propose a new logic for expressing and reasoning about probabilistic hyperproperties. Hyperproperties characterize the relation between different independent executions of a system. Probabilistic hyperproperties express…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Erika Abraham , Borzoo Bonakdarpour

Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) have been used to formulate many decision-making problems in science and engineering. The objective is to synthesize the best decision (action selection) policies to maximize expected rewards (minimize…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-08 Mahmoud El Chamie , Behcet Acikmese

In this paper, we propose a sampling-based motion planning algorithm that finds an infinite path satisfying a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula over a set of properties satisfied by some regions in a given environment. The algorithm has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-07-30 Cristian Ioan Vasile , Calin Belta

We propose a new task-specification language for Markov decision processes that is designed to be an improvement over reward functions by being environment independent. The language is a variant of Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) that is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Michael L. Littman , Ufuk Topcu , Jie Fu , Charles Isbell , Min Wen , James MacGlashan

Recently, the Manna-Pnueli Hierarchy has been used to define the temporal logics LTLfp and PPLTLp, which allow to use finite-trace LTLf/PPLTL techniques in infinite-trace settings while achieving the expressiveness of full LTL. In this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Daniel Hausmann , Shufang Zhu , Gianmarco Parretti , Christoph Weinhuber , Giuseppe De Giacomo , Nir Piterman

Dynamic systems in AI are often complex and heterogeneous, so that an internal specification is not accessible and verification techniques such as model checking are not applicable. Monitoring is in such cases an attractive alternative, as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Alessandro Gianola , Marco Montali , Sarah Winkler

Prior work on automatic control synthesis for cyber-physical systems under logical constraints has primarily focused on environmental disturbances or modeling uncertainties, however, the impact of deliberate and malicious attacks has been…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-25 Luyao Niu , Andrew Clark