English
Related papers

Related papers: Zonotope-based Controller Synthesis for LTL Specif…

200 papers

We propose a symbolic self-triggered controller synthesis procedure for non-deterministic continuous-time nonlinear systems without stability assumptions. The goal is to compute a controller that satisfies two objectives. The first…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Sasinee Pruekprasert , Clovis Eberhart , Jérémy Dubut

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

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

This paper presents a compositional approach to specification-guided abstraction refinement for control synthesis of a nonlinear system associated with a method to over-approximate its reachable sets. Given an initial coarse partition of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Pierre-Jean Meyer , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

The fundamental idea of this work is to synthesize reactive controllers such that closed-loop execution trajectories of the system satisfy desired specifications that ensure correct system behaviors, while optimizing a desired performance…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Sayan Saha , A. Agung Julius

In many applications, the integrals and derivatives of signals carry valuable information (e.g., cumulative success over a time window, the rate of change) regarding the behavior of the underlying system. In this paper, we extend the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-29 Ali Tevfik Buyukkocak , Derya Aksaray , Yasin Yazıcıoğlu

We present the Temporal Logic Synthesis Format (TLSF), a high-level format to describe synthesis problems via Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). The format builds upon standard LTL, but additionally allows to use high-level constructs, such as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Swen Jacobs , Felix Klein , Sebastian Schirmer

We present the Temporal Logic Synthesis Format (TLSF), a high-level format to describe synthesis problems via Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). The format builds upon standard LTL, but additionally allows to use high level constructs, such as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-01-21 Swen Jacobs , Felix Klein

LTL synthesis is the problem of synthesizing a reactive system from a formal specification in Linear Temporal Logic. The extension of allowing for partial observability, where the system does not have direct access to all relevant…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Lucas M. Tabajara , Moshe Y. Vardi

This paper presents a framework for automatic synthesis of a control sequence for multi-agent systems governed by continuous linear dynamics under timed constraints. First, the motion of the agents in the workspace is abstracted into…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Sofie Andersson , Alexandros Nikou , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In this paper, we focus on the problem of compositional synthesis of controllers enforcing signal temporal logic (STL) tasks over a class of continuous-time nonlinear interconnected systems. By leveraging the idea of funnel-based control,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-27 Siyuan Liu , Adnane Saoud , Pushpak Jagtap , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , Majid Zamani

This paper explores continuous-time control synthesis for target-driven navigation to satisfy complex high-level tasks expressed as linear temporal logic (LTL). We propose a model-free framework using deep reinforcement learning (DRL) where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Mingyu Cai , Makai Mann , Zachary Serlin , Kevin Leahy , Cristian-Ioan Vasile

Controller synthesis techniques for continuous systems with respect to temporal logic specifications typically use a finite-state symbolic abstraction of the system model. Constructing this abstraction for the entire system is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Kaushik Mallik , Anne-Kathrin Schmuck , Sadegh Soudjani , Rupak Majumdar

This paper explores the theoretical limits of using discrete abstractions for nonlinear control synthesis. More specifically, we consider the problem of deciding continuous-time control with temporal logic specifications. We prove that…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Jun Liu

The majority of existing Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) planning methods rely on the construction of a discrete product automaton, that combines a discrete abstraction of robot mobility and a B$\ddot{\text{u}}$chi automaton that captures the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Xusheng Luo , Yiannis Kantaros , Michael M. Zavlanos

We reduce synthesis for CTL* properties to synthesis for LTL. In the context of model checking this is impossible - CTL* is more expressive than LTL. Yet, in synthesis we have knowledge of the system structure and we can add new outputs.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Roderick Bloem , Sven Schewe , Ayrat Khalimov

Formal control of cyber-physical systems allows for synthesis of control strategies from rich specifications such as temporal logics. However, the classes of systems that the formal approaches can be applied to is limited due to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Irmak Saglam , Ebru Aydin Gol

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

Reactive synthesis is an automated procedure to obtain a correct-by-construction reactive system from a given specification. GR(1) is a well-known fragment of linear temporal logic (LTL) where synthesis is possible using a polynomial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Shahar Maoz , Jan Oliver Ringert

The formal analysis and design of control systems is one of recent trends in control theory. In this area, in order to reduce the complexity and scale of control systems, finite abstractions of control systems are introduced and explored.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-01 Jinjin Zhang , Zhaohui Zhu , Jianfei Yang