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Finite-state abstractions (a.k.a. symbolic models) present a promising avenue for the formal verification and synthesis of controllers in continuous-space control systems. These abstractions provide simplified models that capture the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Daniel Ajeleye , Majid Zamani

Discrete abstractions have become a standard approach to assist control synthesis under complex specifications. Most techniques for the construction of discrete abstractions are based on sampling of both the state and time spaces, which may…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-20 Pian Yu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In this work, we propose a data-driven approach for the construction of finite abstractions (a.k.a., symbolic models) for discrete-time deterministic control systems with unknown dynamics. We leverage notions of so-called alternating…

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We propose a compositional approach for constructing abstractions of general Markov decision processes using approximate probabilistic relations. The abstraction framework is based on the notion of $\delta$-lifted relations, using which one…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-21 Abolfazl Lavaei , Sadegh Soudjani , Majid Zamani

Designing controllers to satisfy temporal requirements has proven to be challenging for dynamical systems that are affected by uncertainty. This is mainly due to the states evolving in a continuous uncountable space, the stochastic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Birgit C. van Huijgevoort , Ruohan Wang , Sadegh Soudjani , Sofie Haesaert

This work targets the development of an efficient abstraction method for formal analysis and control synthesis of discrete-time stochastic hybrid systems (SHS) with linear dynamics. The focus is on temporal logic specifications, both over…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Nathalie Cauchi , Luca Laurenti , Morteza Lahijanian , Alessandro Abate , Marta Kwiatkowska , Luca Cardelli

This paper studies the synthesis of controllers for discrete-time, continuous state stochastic systems subject to omega-regular specifications using finite-state abstractions. We present a synthesis algorithm for minimizing or maximizing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Maxence Dutreix , Jeongmin Huh , Samuel Coogan

Distributed model predictive control methods for uncertain systems often suffer from considerable conservatism and can tolerate only small uncertainties due to the use of robust formulations that are amenable to distributed design and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-03 Simon Muntwiler , Kim P. Wabersich , Lukas Hewing , Melanie N. Zeilinger

As control systems grow in complexity, abstraction-based methods have become essential for designing controllers with formal guarantees. However, a key limitation of these methods is their reliance on discrete-time models, typically…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Adrien Janssens , Adrien Banse , Julien Calbert , Raphaël M. Jungers

We propose a novel data-driven stochastic model predictive control framework for uncertain linear systems with noisy output measurements. Our approach leverages multi-step predictors to efficiently propagate uncertainty, ensuring chance…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Haldun Balim , Andrea Carron , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Johannes Köhler

In this paper, we propose a data-driven robust safety verification framework for stochastic dynamical systems modeled as Markov decision processes with time-varying and uncertain transition probabilities. Rather than assuming access to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Abhijit Mazumdar , Manuela L. Bujorianu , Rafal Wisniewski

We introduce a framework for the control of discrete-time switched stochastic systems with uncertain distributions. In particular, we consider stochastic dynamics with additive noise whose distribution lies in an ambiguity set of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Ibon Gracia , Dimitris Boskos , Morteza Lahijanian , Luca Laurenti , Manuel Mazo

A classical approach to formal policy synthesis in stochastic dynamical systems is to construct a finite-state abstraction, often represented as a Markov decision process (MDP). The correctness of these approaches hinges on a behavioural…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Thom Badings , Alessandro Abate

Discrete abstractions have become a standard approach to assist control synthesis under complex specifications. Most techniques for the construction of a discrete abstraction for a continuous-time system require time-space discretization of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-17 Pian Yu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Discrete-time stochastic systems with continuous spaces are hard to verify and control, even with MDP abstractions due to the curse of dimensionality. We propose an abstraction-based framework with robust dynamic programming mappings that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Ruohan Wang , Siyuan Liu , Zhiyong Sun , Sofie Haesaert

We propose a data-driven control method for systems with aleatoric uncertainty, for example, robot fleets with variations between agents. Our method leverages shared trajectory data to increase the robustness of the designed controller and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Alexander von Rohr , Dmitrii Likhachev , Sebastian Trimpe

This paper presents a distributionally robust stochastic model predictive control (SMPC) approach for linear discrete-time systems subject to unbounded and correlated additive disturbances. We consider hard input constraints and state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-21 Christoph Mark , Steven Liu

This paper studies formal synthesis of controllers for continuous-space systems with unknown dynamics to satisfy requirements expressed as linear temporal logic formulas. Formal abstraction-based synthesis schemes rely on a precise…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-17 Milad Kazemi , Rupak Majumdar , Mahmoud Salamati , Sadegh Soudjani , Ben Wooding

We present a novel data-driven distributionally robust Model Predictive Control formulation for unknown discrete-time linear time-invariant systems affected by unknown and possibly unbounded additive uncertainties. We use off-line collected…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Francesco Micheli , Tyler Summers , John Lygeros