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Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yuchao Liao , Tosiron Adegbija , Roman Lysecky

A threshold logic gate (TLG) performs weighted sum of multiple inputs and compares the sum with a threshold. We propose Spin-Memeristor Threshold Logic (SMTL) gates, which employ memristive cross-bar array (MCA) to perform current-mode…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Deliang Fan , Mrigank Sharad , Kaushik Roy

This paper proposes a specification-guided framework for control of nonlinear systems with linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications. In contrast with well-known abstraction-based methods, the proposed framework directly characterizes the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-03 Yinan Li , Zhibing Sun , Jun Liu

In the classical synthesis problem, we are given an LTL formula psi over sets of input and output signals, and we synthesize a transducer that realizes psi. One weakness of automated synthesis in practice is that it pays no attention to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Shaull Almagor , Orna Kupferman

Several methods have been proposed recently to learn neural network (NN) controllers for autonomous agents, with unknown and stochastic dynamics, tasked with complex missions captured by Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). Due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Jun Wang , Haojun Chen , Zihe Sun , Yiannis Kantaros

Controller synthesis for hybrid systems that satisfy temporal specifications expressing various system properties is a challenging problem that has drawn the attention of many researchers. However, making the assumption that such temporal…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Dorsa Sadigh , Ashish Kapoor

Developing critical components, such as mission controllers or embedded systems, is a challenging task. Reactive synthesis is a technique to automatically produce correct controllers. Given a high-level specification written in LTL,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Matías Brizzio , César Sánchez

Reactive computer systems bear inherent complexity due to continuous interactions with their environment. While this environment often proves to be uncontrollable, we still want to ensure that critical computer systems will not fail, no…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Mickael Randour

This paper presents an automatic formal controller synthesis method for nonlinear sampled-data systems with safety and reachability specifications. Fundamentally, the presented method is not restricted to polynomial systems and controllers.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Cees F. Verdier , Manuel Mazo

High-level synthesis (HLS) has been researched for decades and is still limited to fast FPGA prototyping and algorithmic RTL generation. A feasible end-to-end system-level synthesis solution has never been rigorously proven. Modularity and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Yu Yang , Ahmed Hemani

Electronic Design Automation (EDA) is essential for IC design and has recently benefited from AI-based techniques to improve efficiency. Logic synthesis, a key EDA stage, transforms high-level hardware descriptions into optimized netlists.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Faezeh Faez , Raika Karimi , Yingxue Zhang , Xing Li , Lei Chen , Mingxuan Yuan , Mahdi Biparva

We investigate the problem of controller synthesis for hyperproperties specified in the temporal logic HyperLTL. Hyperproperties are system properties that relate multiple execution traces. Hyperproperties can elegantly express…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Bernd Finkbeiner

Cyber-physical systems are conducting increasingly complex tasks, which are often modeled using formal languages such as temporal logic. The system's ability to perform the required tasks can be curtailed by malicious adversaries that mount…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Luyao Niu , Jie Fu , Andrew Clark

Dataflow architectures are growing in popularity due to their potential to mitigate the challenges posed by the memory wall inherent to the Von Neumann architecture. At the same time, high-level synthesis (HLS) has demonstrated its efficacy…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Hanchen Ye , Hyegang Jun , Deming Chen

Hybrid games model cyber-physical systems (CPS), like cars, trains, and airplanes, where discrete control decisions interact with continuous physical dynamics. We use Large Language Models (LLMs) to scale formal verification and synthesis…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Aditi Kabra , Jonathan Laurent , Ruben Martins , Stefan Mitsch , André Platzer

Vision-language models (VLMs) trained via reinforcement learning with verifiable reward (RLVR) have shown notable progress in scaling test-time compute effectively. In this work, we investigate how synthesized RL data can further improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zijian Wu , Jinjie Ni , Xiangyan Liu , Zichen Liu , Hang Yan , Michael Qizhe Shieh

We study the problem of determining whether a given temporal specification can be implemented by a symmetric system, i.e., a system composed from identical components. Symmetry is an important goal in the design of distributed systems,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Ruediger Ehlers , Bernd Finkbeiner

In many practical scenarios, multi-robot systems are envisioned to support humans in executing complicated tasks within structured environments, such as search-and-rescue tasks. We propose a framework for a multi-robot swarm to fulfill…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Shuhao Qi , Zengjie Zhang , Sofie Haesaert , Zhiyong Sun

In recent years, event and self-triggered control have been proposed as energy-aware control strategies to expand the life-time of battery powered devices in Networked Control Systems (NCSs). In contrast to the previous works in which their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Kazumune Hashimoto , Shuichi Adachi , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

System Level Synthesis (SLS) parametrization facilitates controller synthesis for large, complex, and distributed systems by incorporating system level constraints (SLCs) into a convex SLS problem and mapping its solution to stable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-14 Shih-Hao Tseng , Carmen {Amo Alonso} , SooJean Han