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This paper studies how to verify the conformity of a program with its specification and proposes a novel constraint-programming framework for bounded program verification (CPBPV). The CPBPV framework uses constraint stores to represent the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2008-07-16 Hélène Collavizza , Michel Rueher , Pascal Van Hentenryck

This paper presents a novel approach for ensuring safe operation of systems subject to input nonlinearities and time-varying safety constraints. We extend the time-varying barrier function framework to address time-varying safety…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Felix Biertümpfel , Jungbae Chun , Peter Seiler

Finding the Lie-algebraic closure of a handful of matrices has important applications in quantum computing and quantum control. For most realistic cases, the closure cannot be determined analytically, necessitating an explicit numerical…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yutaro Iiyama

Safety is closely related to set invariance for dynamical systems. However, synthesizing a safe invariant set and at the same time synthesizing the associated safe controller still remains challenging. In this note we introduce a simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Han Wang , Kostas Margellos , Antonis Papachristodoulou

This letter addresses the constraint compatibility problem of control barrier functions (CBFs), which occurs when a safety-critical CBF requires a system to apply more control effort than it is capable of generating. This inevitably leads…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Logan E. Beaver

We present a simulation-based approach for generating barrier certificate functions for safety verification of cyber-physical systems (CPS) that contain neural network-based controllers. A linear programming solver is utilized to find a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Cumhur Erkan Tuncali , James Kapinski , Hisahiro Ito , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh

In this paper we investigate formal verification problems for Neural Network computations. Of central importance will be various robustness and minimization problems such as: Given symbolic specifications of allowed inputs and outputs in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Adrian Wurm

This work applies universal adaptive control to control barrier functions to achieve forward invariance of a safe set despite the presence of unmatched parametric uncertainties. The approach combines two ideas. The first is to construct a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-17 Brett T. Lopez , Jean-Jacques Slotine

In the paper the problem of verification of functional programs (FPs) over strings is considered, where specifications of properties of FPs are defined by other FPs, and a FP S1 meets a specification defined by another FP S2 iff a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Andrew M. Mironov

In this paper, we develop a novel adaptation-based approach to constrained control design under multiple state and input constraints. Specifically, we introduce a method for synthesizing any number of time-varying candidate control barrier…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Mitchell Black , Dimitra Panagou

Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) are becoming popular tools in guaranteeing safety for nonlinear systems and constraints, and they can reduce a constrained optimal control problem into a sequence of Quadratic Programs (QPs) for affine…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Wei Xiao , Christos G. Cassandras , Calin A. Belta , Daniela Rus

We present verification methods for logic programs with delay declarations. The verified properties are termination and freedom from errors related to built-ins. Concerning termination, we present two approaches. The first approach tries to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-09-25 Jan-Georg Smaus , Patricia M. Hill , Andy King

In this paper, we consider the problem of verifying safety constraint satisfaction for single-input single-output systems with uncertain transfer function coefficients. We propose a new type of barrier function based on a vector norm. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Binghan He , Gray C. Thomas , Luis Sentis

Despite significant advancement in technology, communication and computational failures are still prevalent in safety-critical engineering applications. Often, networked control systems experience packet dropouts, leading to open-loop…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Marc Seidel , Mahathi Anand , Frank Allgöwer

A linear parameter must be consumed exactly once in the body of its function. When declaring resources such as file handles and manually managed memory as linear arguments, a linear type system can verify that these resources are used…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Arnaud Spiwack , Csongor Kiss , Jean-Philippe Bernardy , Nicolas Wu , Richard Eisenberg

This paper introduces integral control barrier functions (I-CBFs) as a means to enable the safety-critical integral control of nonlinear systems. Importantly, I-CBFs allow for the holistic encoding of both state constraints and input bounds…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Aaron D. Ames , Gennaro Notomista , Yorai Wardi , Magnus Egerstedt

Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) aim to ensure safety by constraining the control input at each time step so that the system state remains within a desired safe region. This paper presents a framework for CBFs in stochastic systems in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Andrew Clark

Safe control with guarantees generally requires the system model to be known. It is far more challenging to handle systems with uncertain parameters. In this paper, we propose a generic algorithm that can synthesize and verify safe…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Simin Liu , Kai S. Yun , John M. Dolan , Changliu Liu

We present a method for verifying the correctness of imperative programs which is based on the automated transformation of their specifications. Given a program prog, we consider a partial correctness specification of the form $\{\varphi\}$…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Emanuele De Angelis , Fabio Fioravanti , Alberto Pettorossi , Maurizio Proietti

The aim of this paper is to propose an alternative method to solve a Fault Tolerant Control problem. The model is a linear system affected by a disturbance term: this represents a large class of technological faulty processes. The goal is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-11-15 Sophie M. Fosson