English
Related papers

Related papers: Strategy Synthesis for Partially-known Switched St…

200 papers

Robots operate under significant uncertainty, from quantifiable noise to unquantifiable unknowns, and must account for strict operational constraints, such as limited resources. In this paper, we consider the problem of synthesizing robust…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yihao Yin , Pian Yu , Andrea Turrini , Zhiming Chi , Yong Li , Lijun Zhang

We investigate the problem of optimal control synthesis for Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), addressing both qualitative and quantitative objectives. Specifically, we require the system to satisfy a qualitative task specified by a Linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Yu Chen , Xuanyuan Yin , Shaoyuan Li , Xiang Yin

Automated synthesis of provably correct controllers for cyber-physical systems is crucial for deployment in safety-critical scenarios. However, hybrid features and stochastic or unknown behaviours make this problem challenging. We propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-07 Luke Rickard , Thom Badings , Licio Romao , Alessandro Abate

Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) provide a modeling framework for autonomous decision making under uncertainty and imperfect sensing, e.g. robot manipulation and self-driving cars. However, optimal control of POMDPs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Mohamadreza Ahmadi , Rangoli Sharan , Joel W. Burdick

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 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

In this paper, we investigate the probabilistic variants of the strategy logics ATL and ATL* under imperfect information. Specifically, we present novel decidability and complexity results when the model transitions are stochastic and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Francesco Belardinelli , Wojciech Jamroga , Munyque Mittelmann , Aniello Murano

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

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

We propose a method for efficient training of Q-functions for continuous-state Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) such that the traces of the resulting policies satisfy a given Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) property. LTL, a modal logic, can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Mohammadhosein Hasanbeig , Alessandro Abate , Daniel Kroening

This paper introduces a novel abstraction-based framework for controller synthesis of nonlinear discrete-time stochastic systems. The focus is on probabilistic reach-avoid specifications. The framework is based on abstracting a stochastic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-10 Frederik Baymler Mathiesen , Sofie Haesaert , Luca Laurenti

Given a Markov decision process (MDP) $M$ and a formula $\Phi$, the strategy synthesis problem asks if there exists a strategy $\sigma$ s.t. the resulting Markov chain $M[\sigma]$ satisfies $\Phi$. This problem is known to be undecidable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Benjamin Bordais , Damien Busatto-Gaston , Shibashis Guha , Jean-François Raskin

We introduce a technique for synthesis of control and communication strategies for a team of agents from a global task specification given as a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula over a set of properties that can be satisfied by the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2011-11-10 Yushan Chen , Xu Chu Ding , Calin Belta

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

This paper presents a novel method of synthesizing a fragment of a timed discrete event system(TDES),introducing a novel linear temporal logic(LTL), called ticked LTL$_f$. The ticked LTL$_f$ is given as an extension to LTL$_f$, where the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-06 Takuma Kinugawa , Kazumune Hashimoto , Toshimitsu Ushio

Neural networks (NNs) are emerging as powerful tools to represent the dynamics of control systems with complicated physics or black-box components. Due to complexity of NNs, however, existing methods are unable to synthesize complex…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-22 Steven Adams , Morteza Lahijanian , Luca Laurenti

We consider synthesis of control policies that maximize the probability of satisfying given temporal logic specifications in unknown, stochastic environments. We model the interaction between the system and its environment as a Markov…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Jie Fu , Ufuk Topcu

We consider stability analysis of constrained switching linear systems in which the dynamics is unknown and whose switching signal is constrained by an automaton. We propose a data-driven Lyapunov framework for providing probabilistic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-15 Adrien Banse , Zheming Wang , Raphaël M. Jungers

This work targets the development of an efficient abstraction method for formal analysis and control synthesis of discrete-time stochastic hybrid systems (SHS) with linear dynamics. The focus is on temporal logic specifications, both over…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Nathalie Cauchi , Luca Laurenti , Morteza Lahijanian , Alessandro Abate , Marta Kwiatkowska , Luca Cardelli

Reactive synthesis algorithms allow automatic construction of policies to control an environment modeled as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) that are optimal with respect to high-level temporal logic specifications. However, they assume that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Rajeev Alur , Suguman Bansal , Osbert Bastani , Kishor Jothimurugan