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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

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

This paper addresses the control synthesis of heterogeneous stochastic linear multi-agent systems with real-time allocation of signal temporal logic (STL) specifications. Based on previous work, we decompose specifications into…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Maico H. W. Engelaar , Zengjie Zhang , Eleftherios E. Vlahakis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , Mircea Lazar , Sofie Haesaert

We study the problem of controlling multi-agent systems under a set of signal temporal logic tasks. Signal temporal logic is a formalism that is used to express time and space constraints for dynamical systems. Recent methods to solve the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 Lars Lindemann , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper focuses on synthesizing control policies for discrete-time stochastic control systems together with a lower bound on the probability that the systems satisfy the complex temporal properties. The desired properties of the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Pushpak Jagtap , Sadegh Soudjani , Majid Zamani

We address control synthesis of stochastic discrete-time linear multi-agent systems under jointly chance-constrained collaborative signal temporal logic specifications in a distribution-free manner using available disturbance samples, which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Eleftherios E. Vlahakis , Lars Lindemann , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Metric Temporal Logic can express temporally evolving properties with time-critical constraints or time-triggered constraints for real-time systems. This paper extends the Metric Interval Temporal Logic with a distribution eventuality…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Lening Li , Jie Fu

Controlling complex dynamical systems has been a topic of considerable interest in academic circles in recent decades. While existing works have primarily focused on closed-loop control schemes with infinite-time durations, this paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Xiaoxiao Peng , Shijie Zhou

Automatic synthesis from temporal logic specifications is an attractive alternative to manual system design, due to its ability to generate correct-by-construction implementations from high-level specifications. Due to the high complexity…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Philippe Heim , Rayna Dimitrova

Most control synthesis methods under temporal logic properties require a model of the system, however, identifying such a model can be a challenging task. In this work, we develop a direct data-driven control synthesis method for temporal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-05 Birgit C. van Huijgevoort , Chris Verhoek , Roland Tóth , Sofie Haesaert

The deployment of autonomous systems in uncertain and dynamic environments has raised fundamental questions. Addressing these is pivotal to build fully autonomous systems and requires a systematic integration of planning and control. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-08 Lars Lindemann , George J. Pappas , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We study the temporal robustness of temporal logic specifications and show how to design temporally robust control laws for time-critical control systems. This topic is of particular interest in connected systems and interleaving processes…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Alëna Rodionova , Lars Lindemann , Manfred Morari , George J. Pappas

This paper proposes control approaches for discrete-time linear systems subject to stochastic disturbances. It employs Kalman filter to estimate the mean and covariance of the state propagation, and the worst-case conditional value-at-risk…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Masako Kishida

Symbolic approaches to the control design over complex systems employ the construction of finite-state models that are related to the original control systems, then use techniques from finite-state synthesis to compute controllers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-18 Majid Zamani , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Rupak Majumdar , Alessandro Abate , John Lygeros

We prove a general existence result in stochastic optimal control in discrete time where controls take values in conditional metric spaces, and depend on the current state and the information of past decisions through the evolution of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-19 Asgar Jamneshan , Michael Kupper , José Miguel Zapata

Temporal logic rules are often used in control and robotics to provide structured, human-interpretable descriptions of trajectory data. These rules have numerous applications including safety validation using formal methods, constraining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Emi Soroka , Rohan Sinha , Sanjay Lall

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 introduce a metric that can quantify the temporal relaxation of Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications and facilitate resilient control synthesis in the face of infeasibilities. The proposed metric quantifies a cumulative notion of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Ali Tevfik Buyukkocak , Derya Aksaray

In this paper, we consider a multi-objective control problem for stochastic systems that seeks to minimize a cost of interest while ensuring safety. We introduce a novel measure of safety risk using the conditional value-at-risk and a set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-23 Samantha Samuelson , Insoon Yang

The control of dynamical systems under temporal logic specifications among uncontrollable dynamic agents is challenging due to the agents' a-priori unknown behavior. Existing works have considered the problem where either all agents are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Xinyi Yu , Yiqi Zhao , Xiang Yin , Lars Lindemann