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We present a method to find an optimal policy with respect to a reward function for a discounted Markov decision process under general linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications. Previous work has either focused on maximizing a cumulative…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-24 Krishna C. Kalagarla , Rahul Jain , Pierluigi Nuzzo

Natural language (NL) navigation for low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offers an intelligent and convenient solution for low-altitude aerial services by enabling an intuitive interface for non-expert operators. However, deploying…

Offline safe reinforcement learning (RL) aims to train a constraint satisfaction policy from a fixed dataset. Current state-of-the-art approaches are based on supervised learning with a conditioned policy. However, these approaches fall…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zijian Guo , Weichao Zhou , Wenchao Li

This paper studies an optimal control problem for continuous-time stochastic systems subject to reachability objectives specified in a subclass of metric interval temporal logic specifications, a temporal logic with real-time constraints.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Jie Fu , Ufuk Topcu

This paper investigates the finite time stabilization problem for a class of nonlinear systems with unknown control directions and unstructured uncertainties. The unstructured uncertainties indicate that not only the parameters but also the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Shiqi Zheng , Shihao Wang , Xiang Chen , Yuanlong Xie

This paper addresses a multi-robot planning problem in environments with partially unknown semantics. The environment is assumed to have known geometric structure (e.g., walls) and to be occupied by static labeled landmarks with uncertain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Yiannis Kantaros , Samarth Kalluraya , Qi Jin , George J. Pappas

Operating effectively in complex environments while complying with specified constraints is crucial for the safe and successful deployment of robots that interact with and operate around people. In this work, we focus on generating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Zeyu Feng , Hao Luan , Pranav Goyal , Harold Soh

Runtime monitoring of autonomous systems traditionally relies on mapping continuous sensor observations to discrete logical propositions defined over low-dimensional state variables. This abstraction breaks down in perception-driven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Parv Kapoor , Abigail Hammer , Ashish Kapoor , Karen Leung , Eunsuk Kang

Techniques for runtime verification often utilise specification languages that are (i) reasonably expressive, and (ii) relatively abstract (i.e. they operate on a level of abstraction that separates them from the system being monitored).…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Joshua Heneage Dawes , Giles Reger

The temporal logics LTLf+ and PPLTL+ have recently been proposed to express objectives over infinite traces. These logics are appealing because they match the expressive power of LTL on infinite traces while enabling efficient DFA-based…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Giuseppe De Giacomo , Yong Li , Sven Schewe , Christoph Weinhuber , Pian Yu

Correct-by-design synthesis provides a principled framework for establishing formal safety guarantees for stochastic multi-agent systems (MAS). However, conventional approaches based on finite abstractions often incur prohibitive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Xinyuan Qiu , Ruohan Wang , Siyuan Liu , Sofie Haesaert

This paper addresses the data-driven structured controller design problem for continuous-time linear time-invariant (LTI) systems. We consider three control objectives, including stabilization, $H_2$ performance, and $H_\infty$ performance.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Zhaohua Yang , Yuxing Zhong , Ling Shi

We present an overview on Temporal Logic Programming under the perspective of its application for Knowledge Representation and declarative problem solving. Such programs are the result of combining usual rules with temporal modal operators,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Felicidad Aguado , Pedro Cabalar , Martin Dieguez , Gilberto Perez , Torsten Schaub , Anna Schuhmann , Concepcion Vidal

In this paper, we consider the robot motion (or task) planning problem under some given time bounded high level specifications. We use metric interval temporal logic (MITL), a member of the temporal logic family, to represent the task…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Yuchen Zhou , Dipankar Maity , John S. Baras

In this paper, we propose a control synthesis method for signal temporal logic (STL) specifications with neural networks (NNs). Most of the previous works consider training a controller for only a given STL specification. These approaches,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Wataru Hashimoto , Kazumune Hashimoto , Masako Kishida , Shigemasa Takai

The paper is focused on temporal logics for the description of the behaviour of real-time pushdown reactive systems. The paper is motivated to bridge tractable logics specialized for expressing separately dense-time real-time properties and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Laura Bozzelli , Aniello Murano , Adriano Peron

Metric Temporal Logic (MTL) is a popular formalism to specify temporal patterns with timing constraints over the behavior of cyber-physical systems with application areas ranging in property-based testing, robotics, optimization, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Dogan Ulus

This paper describes a technique for inferring temporal-logic properties for sets of finite data streams. Such data streams arise in many domains, including server logs, program testing, and financial and marketing data; temporal-logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Samuel Huang , Rance Cleaveland

Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) is widely used for defining conditions on the execution paths of dynamic systems. In the case of dynamic systems that allow for nondeterministic evolutions, one has to specify, along with an LTL formula f, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-09-30 M. Pistore , M. Y. Vardi

While Large Language Models (LLM) enable non-experts to specify open-world multi-robot tasks, the generated plans often lack kinematic feasibility and are not efficient, especially in long-horizon scenarios. Formal methods like Linear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Shuyuan Hu , Tao Lin , Kai Ye , Yang Yang , Tianwei Zhang