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In this work, we address the issue of controller synthesis for a control-affine nonlinear system to meet prescribed time reach-avoid-stay specifications. Our goal is to improve upon previous methods based on spatiotemporal tubes (STTs) by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Siddhartha Upadhyay , Ratnangshu Das , Pushpak Jagtap

This paper introduces zonoLAB, a MATLAB-based toolbox for set-based control system analysis using the hybrid zonotope set representation. Hybrid zonotopes have proven to be an expressive set representation that can exactly represent the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Justin Koeln , Trevor J. Bird , Jacob Siefert , Justin Ruths , Herschel Pangborn , Neera Jain

Switching controllers play a pivotal role in directing hybrid systems (HSs) towards the desired objective, embodying a ``correct-by-construction'' approach to HS design. Identifying these objectives is thus crucial for the synthesis of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Han Su , Shenghua Feng , Sinong Zhan , Naijun Zhan

Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) is a widely used task specification language for autonomous systems. To mitigate the significant manual effort and expertise required to define LTL-encoded tasks, several methods have been proposed for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-23 David Smith Sundarsingh , Jun Wang , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh , Yiannis Kantaros

We consider abstraction-based design of output-feedback controllers for non-linear dynamical systems against specifications over state-based predicates in linear-time temporal logic (LTL). In this context, our contribution is two-fold: (I)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-23 Anne-Kathrin Schmuck , Mehrdad Zareian

We present the Temporal Logic Synthesis Format (TLSF), a high-level format to describe synthesis problems via Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). The format builds upon standard LTL, but additionally allows to use high level constructs, such as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-01-21 Swen Jacobs , Felix Klein

We introduce a new approach for the synthesis of Mealy machines from specifications in linear-time temporal logic (LTL), where the number of cycles in the state graph of the implementation is limited by a given bound. Bounding the number of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-05-06 Bernd Finkbeiner , Felix Klein

We propose to synthesize a control policy for a Markov decision process (MDP) such that the resulting traces of the MDP satisfy a linear temporal logic (LTL) property. We construct a product MDP that incorporates a deterministic Rabin…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-09-22 Dorsa Sadigh , Eric S. Kim , Samuel Coogan , S. Shankar Sastry , Sanjit A. Seshia

Continuous-time control of multiple quadrotors in constrained environments under signal temporal logic (STL) specifications is critical due to their nonlinear dynamics, safety constraints, and the requirement to ensure continuous-time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Yating Yuan , Yu Liu

The majority of existing Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) planning methods rely on the construction of a discrete product automaton, that combines a discrete abstraction of robot mobility and a B$\ddot{\text{u}}$chi automaton that captures the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Xusheng Luo , Yiannis Kantaros , Michael M. Zavlanos

We train hierarchical Transformers on the task of synthesizing hardware circuits directly out of high-level logical specifications in linear-time temporal logic (LTL). The LTL synthesis problem is a well-known algorithmic challenge with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Frederik Schmitt , Christopher Hahn , Markus N. Rabe , Bernd Finkbeiner

In this paper, we present a method for optimal control synthesis of a plant that interacts with a set of agents in a graph-like environment. The control specification is given as a temporal logic statement about some properties that hold at…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-09-06 Alphan Ulusoy , Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn , Calin Belta

We propose a distributed control and coordination strategy for multi-agent systems where each agent has a local task specified as a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula and at the same time is subject to relative-distance constraints with…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-11-03 Meng Guo , Jana Tumova , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper proposes methods for reachability analysis of nonlinear systems in both open loop and closed loop with advanced controllers. The methods combine hybrid zonotopes, a construct called a state-update set, functional decomposition,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-26 Jacob A. Siefert , Trevor J. Bird , Andrew F. Thompson , Jonah J. Glunt , Justin P. Koeln , Neera Jain , Herschel C. Pangborn

Because of the scalability issues associated with the symbolic controller synthesis approach, employing it in a multi-agent system (MAS) framework becomes difficult. In this paper, we present a novel approach for synthesizing distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 David Smith Sundarsingh , Ratnangshu Das , Adnane Saoud , Pushpak Jagtap

This paper proposes new methods for set-based state estimation and active fault diagnosis (AFD) of linear descriptor systems (LDS). Unlike intervals, ellipsoids, and zonotopes, constrained zonotopes (CZs) can directly incorporate linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-28 Brenner S. Rego , Davide M. Raimondo , Guilherme V. Raffo

We present a compositional control synthesis method based on assume-guarantee contracts with application to correct-by-construction design of vehicular mission plans. In our approach, a mission-level specification expressed in a fragment of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-22 Muhammad Waqas , Nikhil Vijay Naik , Petros Ioannou , Pierluigi Nuzzo

This paper presents a compositional framework for the construction of symbolic models for a network composed of a countably infinite number of finite-dimensional discrete-time control subsystems. We refer to such a network as infinite…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-29 Siyuan Liu , Navid Noroozi , Majid Zamani

This paper develops a controller synthesis approach for a multi-agent system (MAS) with intermittent communication. We adopt a leader-follower scheme, where a mobile leader with absolute position sensors switches among a set of followers…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-24 Zhe Xu , Federico M. Zegers , Bo Wu , Warren Dixon , Ufuk Topcu

Symbolic approaches to the control design over complex systems employ the construction of finite-state models that are related to the original control systems, then use techniques from finite-state synthesis to compute controllers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-18 Majid Zamani , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Rupak Majumdar , Alessandro Abate , John Lygeros
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