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Signal temporal logic (STL) was introduced for monitoring temporal properties of continuous-time signals for continuous and hybrid systems. Differential dynamic logic (dL) was introduced to reason about the end states of a hybrid program.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Hammad Ahmad , Jean-Baptiste Jeannin

We introduce an approach that aims to combine the usage of satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) solvers with the Combinatory Logic Synthesizer (CL)S framework. (CL)S is a tool for the automatic composition of software components from a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Fadil Kallat , Tristan Schäfer , Anna Vasileva

Discrete-time Control Barrier Functions (DTCBFs) have recently attracted interest for guaranteeing safety and synthesizing safe controllers for discrete-time dynamical systems. This paper addresses the open challenges of verifying candidate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Erfan Shakhesi , W. P. M. H. Heemels , Alexander Katriniok

We extend previous work on symbolic self-triggered control for non-deterministic continuous-time nonlinear systems without stability assumptions to a larger class of specifications. Our goal is to synthesise a controller for two objectives:…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Sasinee Pruekprasert , Clovis Eberhart , Jérémy Dubut

Recent attempts to automate business processes and medical-treatment processes have uncovered the need for a formal framework that can accommodate not only temporal constraints, but also observations and actions with uncontrollable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Luke Hunsberger , Roberto Posenato , Carlo Combi

Ensuring safety and meeting temporal specifications are critical challenges for long-term robotic tasks. Signal temporal logic (STL) has been widely used to systematically and rigorously specify these requirements. However, traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Yue Meng , Chuchu Fan

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown promise in various robotics applications, yet its deployment on real systems is still limited due to safety and operational constraints. The safe RL field has gained considerable attention in recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Sadık Bera Yüksel , Ali Tevfik Buyukkocak , Derya Aksaray

This paper presents control strategies based on time-varying convergent higher order control barrier functions for a class of leader-follower multi-agent systems under signal temporal logic (STL) tasks. Each agent is assigned a local STL…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Maryam Sharifi , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In this paper, we consider networks of static sensors with integrated sensing and communication capabilities. The goal of the sensors is to propagate their collected information to every other agent in the network and possibly a human…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-15 Hans Riess , Yiannis Kantaros , George Pappas , Robert Ghrist

We investigate the problem of synthesizing switching controllers for stabilizing continuous-time plants. First, we introduce a class of control Lyapunov functions (CLFs) for switched systems along with a switching strategy that yields a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-18 Hadi Ravanbakhsh , Sriram Sankaranarayanan

To express temporal properties of dense-time real-valued signals, the Signal Temporal Logic (STL) has been defined by Maler et al. The work presented a monitoring algorithm deciding the satisfiability of STL formulae on finite discrete…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2012-08-21 Petr Dluhoš , Luboš Brim , David Šafránek

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

This paper considers the safety-critical navigation problem with Signal Temporal Logic (STL) tasks. We developed an explicit reference governor-guided control barrier function (ERG-guided CBF) method that enables the application of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-10 Kaier Liang , Mingyu Cai , Cristian-Ioan Vasile

Reactive synthesis builds a system from a specification given as a temporal logic formula. Traditionally, reactive synthesis is defined for systems with Boolean input and output variables. Recently, new theories and techniques have been…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Benedikt Maderbacher , Roderick Bloem

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

As the complexity of control systems increases, safety becomes an increasingly important property since safety violations can damage the plant and put the system operator in danger. When the system dynamics are unknown, safety-critical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-29 Luyao Niu , Hongchao Zhang , Andrew Clark

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) is a powerful specification language for describing complex temporal behaviors of continuous signals, making it well-suited for high-level robotic task descriptions. However, generating executable plans for STL…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ruijia Liu , Ancheng Hou , Xiao Yu , Xiang Yin

Multi-task learning (MTL) seeks to improve the generalized performance of learning specific tasks, exploiting useful information incorporated in related tasks. As a promising area, this paper studies an MTL-based control approach…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-01 Andres Arias , Chuangchuang Sun

In this paper, we present a provably correct controller synthesis approach for switched stochastic control systems with metric temporal logic (MTL) specifications with provable probabilistic guarantees. We first present the stochastic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-29 Zhe Xu , Yichen Zhang

We present a bounded model checking algorithm for signal temporal logic (STL) that exploits mixed-integer linear programming (MILP). A key technical element is our novel MILP encoding of the STL semantics; it follows the idea of stable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Sota Sato , Jie An , Zhenya Zhang , Ichiro Hasuo