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Learning to control an unknown dynamical system with respect to high-level temporal specifications is an important problem in control theory. We present the first regret-free online algorithm for learning a controller for linear temporal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Rupak Majumdar , Mahmoud Salamati , Sadegh Soudjani

In this paper, we consider the problem of optimally allocating tasks, expressed as global Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) specifications, to teams of heterogeneous mobile robots. The robots are classified in different types that capture their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Xusheng Luo , Michael M. Zavlanos

This paper addresses the planning and control problem for nonlinear systems under Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications. We first decompose an STL task into finite local tasks. A sampling-based method generates sequences of local…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Zuodong Pan , Xu Fang , Wei Ren

In this paper, we investigate the problem of synthesizing strategies for linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications that are interpreted over finite traces -- a problem that is central to the automated construction of controllers, robot…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Alberto Camacho , Meghyn Bienvenu , Sheila A. McIlraith

This paper proposes a finitely terminating algorithm to solve reach-and-stay control problems for nonlinear systems. The algorithm is guaranteed to return a control strategy if the specification is robustly realizable. Such a feature is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-17 Yinan Li , Jun Liu

Research in robotic planning with temporal logic specifications, such as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL), has relied on single formulas. However, as task complexity increases, LTL formulas become lengthy, making them difficult to interpret and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Xusheng Luo , Changliu Liu

We present a reinforcement learning (RL) framework to synthesize a control policy from a given linear temporal logic (LTL) specification in an unknown stochastic environment that can be modeled as a Markov Decision Process (MDP).…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Alper Kamil Bozkurt , Yu Wang , Michael M. Zavlanos , Miroslav Pajic

In this paper, we consider the problem of controlling a dynamical system such that its trajectories satisfy a temporal logic property in a given amount of time. We focus on multi-affine systems and specifications given as syntactically…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-03-27 Ebru Aydin Gol , Calin Belta

We consider the problem of computing the set of initial states of a dynamical system such that there exists a control strategy to ensure that the trajectories satisfy a temporal logic specification with probability 1 (almost-surely). We…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Maria Svorenova , Jan Kretinsky , Martin Chmelik , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Ivana Cerna , Calin Belta

A challenging problem for autonomous systems is to synthesize a reactive controller that conforms to a set of given correctness properties. Linear temporal logic (LTL) provides a formal language to specify the desired behavioral properties…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Rayna Dimitrova , Mahsa Ghasemi , Ufuk Topcu

We present a mathematical programming-based method for model predictive control of cyber-physical systems subject to signal temporal logic (STL) specifications. We describe the use of STL to specify a wide range of properties of these…

We develop an algorithm for the motion and task planning of a system comprised of multiple robots and unactuated objects under tasks expressed as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) constraints. The robots and objects evolve subject to uncertain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Christos K. Verginis , Yiannis Kantaros , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper presents a spatiotemporal tube (STT)-based control framework for satisfying Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications in unknown control-affine systems. We formulate STL constraints as a robust optimization problem (ROP) and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Ratnangshu Das , Subhodeep Choudhury , Pushpak Jagtap

Designing controllers to satisfy temporal requirements has proven to be challenging for dynamical systems that are affected by uncertainty. This is mainly due to the states evolving in a continuous uncountable space, the stochastic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Birgit C. van Huijgevoort , Ruohan Wang , Sadegh Soudjani , Sofie Haesaert

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising approach. However, success is limited to real-world applications, because ensuring safe exploration and facilitating adequate exploitation is a challenge for controlling robotic systems with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Mingyu Cai , Cristian-Ioan Vasile

This paper considers receding horizon control of finite deterministic systems, which must satisfy a high level, rich specification expressed as a linear temporal logic formula. Under the assumption that time-varying rewards are associated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-03-14 Xuchu Ding , Mircea Lazar , Calin Belta

This paper presents a smooth parameterization of continuous-time Signal Temporal Logic (CT-STL) specifications for nonconvex trajectory optimization that is sound and complete up to the accuracy of the underlying numerical integration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Samet Uzun , Behçet Açıkmeşe

In this work, we propose a novel approach for the continuous-time control synthesis of nonlinear systems under nested signal temporal logic (STL) specifications. While the majority of existing literature focuses on control synthesis for STL…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-24 Pian Yu , Xiao Tan , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper presents an input-output simulation approach to controlling multi-affine systems for linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications, which consists of the following steps. First, we partition the state space into rectangles, each of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-05-01 Yajuan Sun , Hai Lin , Ben M. Chen

Ensuring that reinforcement learning (RL) controllers satisfy safety and reliability constraints in real-world settings remains challenging: state-avoidance and constrained Markov decision processes often fail to capture trajectory-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Alper Kamil Bozkurt , Calin Belta , Ming C. Lin