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Barrier certificates, a form of state invariants, provide an automated approach to the verification of the safety of dynamical systems. Similarly to barrier certificates, recent works explore the notion of closure certificates, a form of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Mohammed Adib Oumer , Vishnu Murali , Majid Zamani

The recently introduced notions of ranking functions and closure certificates utilize well-foundedness arguments to facilitate the verification of dynamical systems against $\omega$-regular properties. A ranking function and a closure…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Mohammed Adib Oumer , Vishnu Murali , Majid Zamani

This paper introduces the notion of control closure certificates to synthesize controllers for discrete-time control systems against $\omega$-regular specifications. Typical functional approaches to synthesize controllers against…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Vishnu Murali , Mohammed Adib Oumer , Majid Zamani

Barrier certificates are scalar functions over the state space of dynamical systems that separate all unsafe states from all reachable states. The existence of a barrier certificate formally verifies the safety of the dynamical system.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Miriam Kranzlmüller , Lukas Koller , Tobias Ladner , Matthias Althoff

An important tool for proving safety of dynamical systems is the notion of a barrier certificate. In this paper we prove that every robustly safe ordinary differential equation has a barrier certificate. Moreover, we show a construction of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Stefan Ratschan

A barrier certificate is an inductive invariant function which can be used for the safety verification of a hybrid system. Safety verification based on barrier certificate has the benefit of avoiding explicit computation of the exact…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-03-28 Hui Kong , Fei He , Xiaoyu Song , William N. N. Hung , Ming Gu

A barrier certificate often serves as an inductive invariant that isolates an unsafe region from the reachable set of states, and hence is widely used in proving safety of hybrid systems possibly over the infinite time horizon. We present a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Qiuye Wang , Mingshuai Chen , Bai Xue , Naijun Zhan , Joost-Pieter Katoen

We consider temporal logic verification of (possibly nonlinear) dynamical systems evolving over continuous state spaces. Our approach combines automata-based verification and the use of so-called barrier certificates. Automata-based…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-17 Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn , Ufuk Topcu , Andrew Lamperski

Safety of stochastic dynamic systems in environments with dynamic obstacles is studied in this paper through the lens of stochastic barrier functions. We introduce both time-invariant and time-varying barrier certificates for discrete-time,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Rayan Mazouz , Luca Laurenti , Morteza Lahijanian

In this paper, we revisit the formal verification problem for stochastic dynamical systems over finite horizon using barrier certificates. Most existing work on this topic focuses on safety properties by constructing barrier certificates…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Yu Chen , Shaoyuan Li , Xiang Yin

A barrier certificate often serves as an inductive invariant that isolates an unsafe region from the reachable set of states, and hence is widely used in proving safety of hybrid systems possibly over an infinite time horizon. We present a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Qiuye Wang , Mingshuai Chen , Bai Xue , Naijun Zhan , Joost-Pieter Katoen

This paper studies the problem of enforcing safety of a stochastic dynamical system over a finite-time horizon. We use stochastic control barrier functions as a means to quantify the probability that a system exits a given safe region of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-12 Cesar Santoyo , Maxence Dutreix , Samuel Coogan

In this paper, we present an algorithm for synthesizing certificates---so-called barrier certificates---for safety of hybrid dynamical systems. Unlike the usual approach of using constraint solvers to compute the certificate from the system…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Stefan Ratschan

Barrier certificates provide functional overapproximations for the reachable set of dynamical systems and provide inductive guarantees on the safe evolution of the system. In automata-theoretic verification, a key query is to determine…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Vishnu Murali , Ashutosh Trivedi , Majid Zamani

Control barrier certificates have proven effective in formally guaranteeing the safety of the control systems. However, designing a control barrier certificate is a time-consuming and computationally expensive endeavor that requires expert…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Alireza Nadali , Ashutosh Trivedi , Majid Zamani

Certifying safety in dynamical systems is crucial, but barrier certificates - widely used to verify that system trajectories remain within a safe region - typically require explicit system models. When dynamics are unknown, data-driven…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Robert Lefringhausen , Sami Leon Noel Aziz Hanna , Elias August , Sandra Hirche

A barrier certificate can separate the state space of a con- sidered hybrid system (HS) into safe and unsafe parts ac- cording to the safety property to be verified. Therefore this notion has been widely used in the verification of HSs. A…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-10-25 Liyun Dai , Ting Gan , Bican Xia , Naijun Zhan

This paper studies the problem of enforcing safety of a stochastic dynamical system over a finite time horizon. We use stochastic barrier functions as a means to quantify the probability that a system exits a given safe region of the state…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Cesar Santoyo , Maxence Dutreix , Samuel Coogan

Machine teaching can be viewed as optimal control for learning. Given a learner's model, machine teaching aims to determine the optimal training data to steer the learner towards a target hypothesis. In this paper, we are interested in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Mohamadreza Ahmadi , Bo Wu , Yuxin Chen , Yisong Yue , Ufuk Topcu

This paper addresses the quantitative verification of finite-time constrained occupation time for stochastic continuous-time systems governed by stochastic differential equations (SDEs). Unlike classical reachability analysis, which focuses…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Bai Xue , C. -H. Luke Ong
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