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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

This paper deals with the control synthesis problem for a continuous nonlinear dynamical system under a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula. The proposed solution is a top-down hierarchical decomposition of the control problem involving…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Pierre-Jean Meyer , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Inspired by a concrete industry problem we consider the input synthesis problem for hybrid systems: given a hybrid system that is subject to input from outside (also called disturbance or noise), find an input sequence that steers the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Takumi Akazaki , Ichiro Hasuo , Kohei Suenaga

This paper presents a fully automated procedure for controller synthesis for multi-agent systems under coupled constraints. Each agent has dynamics consisting of two terms: the first one models the coupled constraints and the other one is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Alexandros Nikou , Dimitris Boskos , Jana Tumova , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Synthesis automatically constructs an implementation that satisfies a given logical specification. In this paper, we study the live synthesis problem, where the synthesized implementation replaces an already running system. In addition to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Bernd Finkbeiner , Felix Klein , Niklas Metzger

This manuscript discusses a scalable controller synthesis method for networked systems with a large number of identical subsystems based on the H-infinity control framework. The dynamics of the individual subsystems are described by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Pieter Appeltans , Wim Michiels

We present a compositional approach to controller synthesis of discrete event system controllers with linear temporal logic (LTL) goals. We exploit the modular structure of the plant to be controlled, given as a set of labelled transition…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Hernan Gagliardi , Victor Braberman , Sebastian Uchitel

We have witnessed the emergence of several controller parameterizations and the corresponding synthesis methods, including Youla, system level, input-output, and many other new proposals. Meanwhile, under the same synthesis method, there…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Shih-Hao Tseng

We introduce a functional inductive framework to verify discrete-time dynamical systems against hyperproperties specified as Hyperlinear temporal logic formulae via a notion of HyperCertificates. Unlike linear temporal logic (LTL) formulae…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Vishnu Murali , Amin Falah , Ashutosh Trivedi , Majid Zamani

We studied the hyperlogic HyperQPTL, which combines the concepts of trace relations and $\omega$-regularity. We showed that HyperQPTL is very expressive, it can express properties like promptness, bounded waiting for a grant, epistemic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Bernd Finkbeiner , Christopher Hahn , Jana Hofmann , Leander Tentrup

We have witnessed the emergence of several controller parameterizations and the corresponding synthesis methods, including Youla, system level, input-output, and many other new proposals. Meanwhile, under the same synthesis method, there…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Shih-Hao Tseng

Hyperproperties are properties over sets of traces (or runs) of a system, as opposed to properties of just one trace. They were introduced in 2010 and have been much studied since, in particular via an extension of the temporal logic LTL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Nicolas Waldburger , Chana Weil-Kennedy , Pierre Ganty , César Sánchez

Ensuring that agents satisfy safety specifications can be crucial in safety-critical environments. While methods exist for controller synthesis with safe temporal specifications, most existing methods restrict safe temporal specifications…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Gaspard Ohlmann , Edwin Hamel-De le Court , Francesco Belardinelli

We propose algorithms for performing model checking and control synthesis for discrete-time uncertain systems under linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications. We construct temporal logic trees (TLT) from LTL formulae via reachability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Yulong Gao , Alessandro Abate , Frank J. Jiang , Mirco Giacobbe , Lihua Xie , Karl H. Johansson

LTL synthesis -- the construction of a function to satisfy a logical specification formulated in Linear Temporal Logic -- is a 2EXPTIME-complete problem with relevant applications in controller synthesis and a myriad of artificial…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jorge A. Baier , Alberto Camacho , Christian Muise , Sheila A. McIlraith

Hyperproperties are properties of sets of computation traces. In this paper, we study quantitative hyperproperties, which we define as hyperproperties that express a bound on the number of traces that may appear in a certain relation. For…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Bernd Finkbeiner , Christopher Hahn , Hazem Torfah

Executing a Golog program on an actual robot typically requires additional steps to account for hardware or software details of the robot platform, which can be formulated as constraints on the program. Such constraints are often temporal,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Till Hofmann , Gerhard Lakemeyer

In this paper we introduce a class of Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) specifications for which the problem of synthesizing controllers can be solved in polynomial time. The new class of specifications is an LTL fragment that we term Mode-Target…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Ayca Balkan , Moshe Vardi , Paulo Tabuada

Hyperproperties are system properties that relate multiple execution traces and commonly occur when specifying information-flow and security policies. Logics like HyperLTL utilize explicit quantification over execution traces to express…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner

Deadline misses are more common in real-world systems than one may expect. The weakly-hard task model has become a standard abstraction to describe and analyze how often these misses occur, and has been especially used in control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Marc Seidel , Martina Maggio , Frank Allgöwer