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This paper investigates the synthesis of robust controllers from logical specification of regular properties given in an interval temporal logic QDDC. Our specification encompasses both hard robustness and soft robustness. Here, hard…

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Uncertainty in control and perception poses challenges for autonomous vehicle navigation in unstructured environments, leading to navigation failures and potential vehicle damage. This paper introduces a framework that minimizes control and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Junwon Seo , Jungwi Mun , Taekyung Kim

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

This paper proposes a robust control design method using reinforcement-learning for controlling partially-unknown dynamical systems under uncertain conditions. The method extends the optimal reinforcement-learning algorithm with a new…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-17 Phuong D. Ngo , Fred Godtliebsen

We consider the problem of adaptive control of a class of feedback linearizable plants with matched parametric uncertainties whose states are accessible, subject to state constraints, which often arise due to safety considerations. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Peter A. Fisher , Johannes Autenrieb , Anuradha M. Annaswamy

This paper presents a novel approach for safe control synthesis using the dual formulation of the navigation problem. The main contribution of this paper is in the analytical construction of density functions for almost everywhere…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Andrew Zheng , Sriram S. K. S. Narayanan , Umesh Vaidya

The article outlines the methodology of structural and parametric synthesis of neural network controllers for controlling objects with limiters under incomplete information about the controlled object. Artificial neural networks are used to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Sergey Feofilov , Dmitry Khapkin , Andrey Kozyr , Eduard Heiss , Andrey Efromeev

The assurance of real-time properties is prone to context variability. Providing such assurance at design time would require to check all the possible context and system variations or to predict which one will be actually used. Both cases…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Arthur Rodrigues , Ricardo Diniz Caldas , Genaína Nunes Rodrigues , Thomas Vogel , Patrizio Pelliccione

Runtime uncertainty such as unpredictable resource unavailability, changing environmental conditions and user needs, as well as system intrusions or faults represents one of the main current challenges of self-adaptive systems. Moreover,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Edith Zavala , Xavier Franch , Jordi Marco , Alessia Knauss , Daniela Damian

Recent advances in learning-based perception systems have led to drastic improvements in the performance of robotic systems like autonomous vehicles and surgical robots. These perception systems, however, are hard to analyze and errors in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-17 Shromona Ghosh , Yash Vardhan Pant , Hadi Ravanbakhsh , Sanjit A. Seshia

Ensuring robust decision-making in multi-agent systems is challenging when agents have distinct, possibly conflicting objectives and lack full knowledge of each other's strategies. This is apparent in safety-critical applications such as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Francesco Bianchin , Robert Lefringhausen , Elisa Gaetan , Samuel Tesfazgi , Sandra Hirche

This letter presents a framework for synthesizing a robust full-state feedback controller for systems with unknown nonlinearities. Our approach characterizes input-output behavior of the nonlinearities in terms of local norm bounds using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Sze Kwan Cheah , Diganta Bhattacharjee , Maziar S. Hemati , Ryan J. Caverly

Sample average approximation (SAA) is a widely popular approach to data-driven decision-making under uncertainty. Under mild assumptions, SAA is both tractable and enjoys strong asymptotic performance guarantees. Similar guarantees,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Dimitris Bertsimas , Vishal Gupta , Nathan Kallus

We study in this paper the problem of adaptive trajectory tracking control for a class of nonlinear systems with parametric uncertainties. We propose to use a modular approach, where we first design a robust nonlinear state feedback which…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-28 Mouhacine Benosman , Amir-massoud Farahmand , Meng Xia

Planning as satisfiability is a principal approach to planning with many eminent advantages. The existing planning as satisfiability techniques usually use encodings compiled from STRIPS. We introduce a novel SAT encoding scheme (SASE)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Ruoyun Huang , Yixin Chen , Weixiong Zhang

The theory of covariance control and covariance steering (CS) deals with controlling the dispersion of trajectories of a dynamical system, under the implicit assumption that accurate prior knowledge of the system being controlled is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Joshua Pilipovsky , Panagiotis Tsiotras

In today's world, circumstances, processes, and requirements for software systems are becoming increasingly complex. In order to operate properly in such dynamic environments, software systems must adapt to these changes, which has led to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Veronika Lesch , Marius Hadry , Samuel Kounev , Christian Krupitzer

Simulink is widely used in industrial design processes to model increasingly complex embedded control systems. Thus, their formal analysis is highly desirable. However, this comes with two major challenges: First, Simulink models often…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-18 Pauline Blohm , Felix Schulz , Lisa Willemsen , Anne Remke , Paula Herber

The dramatic increase of autonomous systems subject to variable environments has given rise to the pressing need to consider risk in both the synthesis and verification of policies for these systems. This paper aims to address a few…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Prithvi Akella , Anushri Dixit , Mohamadreza Ahmadi , Joel W. Burdick , Aaron D. Ames

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) agents often fail when deployed, as the gap between training datasets and real environments leads to unsafe behavior. To address this, we present SAS (Self-Alignment for Safety), a transformer-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Seungyub Han , Hyungjin Kim , Jungwoo Lee