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Reactive synthesis deals with the automated construction of implementations of reactive systems from their specifications. To make the approach feasible in practice, systems engineers need effective and efficient means of debugging these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-07-22 Rüdiger Ehlers , Vasumathi Raman

Reactive synthesis, the problem of automatically constructing a hardware circuit from a logical specification, is a long-standing challenge in formal verification. It is elusive for two reasons: It is algorithmically hard, and writing…

In real-time and safety-critical cyber-physical systems (CPSs), control synthesis must guarantee that generated policies meet stringent timing and correctness requirements under uncertain and dynamic conditions. Signal temporal logic (STL)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Xiaochen Tang , Zhenya Zhang , Miaomiao Zhang , Jie An

Reactive synthesis addresses the problem of generating a controller for a temporal specification in an adversarial environment; it was typically studied for LTL. Driven by applications ranging from AI to business process management, LTL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Sarah Winkler

Temporal logic has been widely used to express complex task specifications for cyber-physical systems (CPSs). One way to synthesize a controller for CPS under temporal logic constraints is to first abstract the CPS as a discrete transition…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Luyao Niu , Andrew Clark

This paper presents an application of specification based runtime verification techniques to control mobile robots in a reactive manner. In our case study, we develop a layered control architecture where runtime monitors constructed from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Dogan Ulus , Calin Belta

A temporal logic is presented for reasoning about the correctness of timed concurrent constraint programs. The logic is based on modalities which allow one to specify what a process produces as a reaction to what its environment inputs.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 F. S. de Boer , M. Gabbrielli , M. C. Meo

We tackle the challenging problem of multi-agent cooperative motion planning for complex tasks described using signal temporal logic (STL), where robots can have nonlinear and nonholonomic dynamics. Existing methods in multi-agent motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Dawei Sun , Jingkai Chen , Sayan Mitra , Chuchu Fan

This paper investigates the controller synthesis problem for a multi-agent system (MAS) with intermittent communication. We adopt a relay-explorer scheme, where a mobile relay agent with absolute position sensors switches among a set of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Zhe Xu , Federico M. Zegers , Bo Wu , Alexander J. Phillips , Warren Dixon , Ufuk Topcu

In this work, we propose a novel approach for the continuous-time control synthesis of nonlinear systems under nested signal temporal logic (STL) specifications. While the majority of existing literature focuses on control synthesis for STL…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-24 Pian Yu , Xiao Tan , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We consider the setting of component-based design for real-time systems with critical timing constraints. Based on our earlier work, we propose a compositional specification theory for timed automata with I/O distinction, which supports…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-06-21 Chris Chilton , Marta Kwiatkowska , Xu Wang

Existing approaches to synthesize reactive systems from declarative specifications mostly rely on Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs), inheriting their scalability issues. We present novel algorithms for safety specifications that use decision…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Roderick Bloem , Uwe Egly , Patrick Klampfl , Robert Könighofer , Florian Lonsing , Martina Seidl

Recent advances in learning for control allow to synthesize vehicle controllers from learned system dynamics and maintain robust stability guarantees. However, no approach is well-suited for training linear time-invariant (LTI) controllers…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-11 Marc-Antoine Beaudoin , Benoit Boulet

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

Strong semantic representations improve the convergence and generation quality of diffusion and flow models. Existing approaches largely rely on external models, which require separate training, operate on misaligned objectives, and exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Hila Chefer , Patrick Esser , Dominik Lorenz , Dustin Podell , Vikash Raja , Vinh Tong , Antonio Torralba , Robin Rombach

This paper introduces a general approach for synthesizing procedural models of the state-transitions of a given discrete system. The approach is general in that it accepts different target languages for modeling the state-transitions of a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Javier Segovia-Aguas , Jonathan Ferrer-Mestres , Sergio Jiménez

Temporal logics are extensively used for the specification of on-going behaviours of reactive systems. Two significant developments in this area are the extension of traditional temporal logics with modalities that enable the specification…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Patricia Bouyer , Orna Kupferman , Nicolas Markey , Bastien Maubert , Aniello Murano , Giuseppe Perelli

In reactive controller synthesis, a number of implementations (controllers) are possible for a given specification because of the incomplete nature of specification. To choose the most desirable one from the various options, we need to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Amol Wakankar , Paritosh K. Pandya , Rajmohan Matteplackel

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has the potential to be used for synthesizing feedback controllers (agents) for various complex systems with unknown dynamics. These systems are expected to satisfy diverse safety and liveness properties…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Nikhil Kumar Singh , Indranil Saha

Grid supportive (GS) modes integrated within distributed energy resources (DERs) can improve the frequency response. However, synthesis of GS modes for guaranteed performance is challenging. Moreover, a tool is needed to handle…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Yichen Zhang , Mohammed Olama , Alexander Melin , Yaosuo Xue , Seddik Djouadi , Kevin Tomsovic