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Signal temporal logic (STL) is a powerful tool for describing complex behaviors for dynamical systems. Among many approaches, the control problem for systems under STL task constraints is well suited for learning-based solutions, because…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-16 Peter Varnai , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

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…

This study proposes a novel planning framework based on a model predictive control formulation that incorporates signal temporal logic (STL) specifications for task completion guarantees and robustness quantification. This marks the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Zhaoyuan Gu , Rongming Guo , William Yates , Yipu Chen , Ye Zhao

Learning from demonstration (LfD) has succeeded in tasks featuring a long time horizon. However, when the problem complexity also includes human-in-the-loop perturbations, state-of-the-art approaches do not guarantee the successful…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yanwei Wang , Nadia Figueroa , Shen Li , Ankit Shah , Julie Shah

Temporal logic is an important tool for specifying complex behaviors of systems. It can be used to define properties for verification and monitoring, as well as goals for synthesis tools, allowing users to specify rich missions and tasks.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Gustavo A. Cardona , Kevin Leahy , Makai Mann , Cristian-Ioan Vasile

In environments with uncertainties or undesirable influences, control systems can require additional energy to achieve their task while remaining resilient to these influences. In this paper, we present an energetic resilience metric that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Ratnangshu Das , Ram Padmanabhan , Melkior Ornik , Pushpak Jagtap

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

Past research into robotic planning with temporal logic specifications, notably Linear Temporal Logic (LTL), was largely based on a single formula for individual or groups of robots. But with increasing task complexity, LTL formulas…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Xusheng Luo , Shaojun Xu , Ruixuan Liu , Changliu Liu

In this paper, we propose a framework for the control of mobile robots subject to temporal logic specifications using barrier functions. Complex task specifications can be conveniently encoded using linear temporal logic. In particular, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Mohit Srinivasan , Samuel Coogan

The deployment of autonomous systems in safety-critical environments requires control policies that guarantee satisfaction of complex control specifications. These systems are commonly modeled as nonlinear discrete-time stochastic systems.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Alessandro Riccardi , Thom Badings , Luca Laurenti , Alessandro Abate , Bart De Schutter

Replanning in temporal logic tasks is extremely difficult during the online execution of robots. This study introduces an effective path planner that computes solutions for temporal logic goals and instantly adapts to non-static and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Yizhou Chen , Ruoyu Wang , Xinyi Wang , Ben M. Chen

In this paper, we provide a Dynamic Programming algorithm for on-line monitoring of the state robustness of Metric Temporal Logic specifications with past time operators. We compute the robustness of MTL with unbounded past and bounded…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-08-04 Adel Dokhanchi , Bardh Hoxha , Georgios Fainekos

This work considers the path planning problem for a team of identical robots evolving in a known environment. The robots should satisfy a global specification given as a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula over a set of regions of interest.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Sofia Hustiu , Cristian Mahulea , Marius Kloetzer , Jean-Jacques Lesage

Temporal logics provide a formalism for expressing complex system specifications. A large body of literature has addressed the verification and the control synthesis problem for deterministic systems under such specifications. For…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-08-27 Lars Lindemann , George J. Pappas , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We propose novel techniques for task allocation and planning in multi-robot systems operating in uncertain environments. Task allocation is performed simultaneously with planning, which provides more detailed information about individual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Fatma Faruq , Bruno Lacerda , Nick Hawes , David Parker

Robot swarms promise scalable assistance in complex and hazardous environments. Task planning lies at the core of human-swarm collaboration, translating the operator's intent into coordinated swarm actions and helping determine when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Junfeng Chen , Yuxiao Zhu , An Zhuo , Xintong Zhang , Shuo Zhang , Guanghui Wen , Xiwang Dong , Meng Guo , Zhongkui Li

During the conceptual and prototype design stage of an industrial product, it is crucial to take assembly/disassembly and maintenance operations in advance. A well-designed system should enable relatively easy access of operating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-06-08 Liang Ma , Ruina Ma , Damien Chablat , Fouad Bennis

Online monitoring aims to evaluate or to predict, at runtime, whether or not the behaviors of a system satisfy some desired specification. It plays a key role in safety-critical cyber-physical systems. In this work, we propose a new…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-10 Xinyi Yu , Weijie Dong , Xiang Yin , Shaoyuan Li

In this paper we study monitoring of real-time systems with respect to properties expressed either in Metric Interval Temporal Logic or as Timed B\"uchi Automata. We offer efficient symbolic online monitoring algorithms in a number of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Thomas Møller Grosen , Sean Kauffman , Kim Guldstrand Larsen , Martin Zimmermann

Temporal logic can be used to formally specify autonomous agent goals, but synthesizing planners that guarantee goal satisfaction can be computationally prohibitive. This paper shows how to turn goals specified using a subset of finite…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Aadesh Neupane , Eric G Mercer , Michael A. Goodrich