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This paper addresses a motion planning problem to achieve spatio-temporal-logical tasks, expressed by syntactically co-safe linear temporal logic specifications (scLTL\next), in uncertain environments. Here, the uncertainty is modeled as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Azizollah Taheri , Derya Aksaray

Assuring the safety and trustworthiness of autonomous systems is particularly difficult when learning-enabled components and open environments are involved. Formal methods provide strong guarantees but depend on complete models and static…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Angelo Ferrando

Automatic synthesis from linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications is widely used in robotic motion planning, control of autonomous systems, and load distribution in power networks. A common specification pattern in such applications…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Rayna Dimitrova , Mahsa Ghasemi , Ufuk Topcu

This study proposes a hierarchically integrated framework for safe task and motion planning (TAMP) of bipedal locomotion in a partially observable environment with dynamic obstacles and uneven terrain. The high-level task planner employs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Abdulaziz Shamsah , Zhaoyuan Gu , Jonas Warnke , Seth Hutchinson , Ye Zhao

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) is a widely adopted specification language in cyber-physical systems for expressing critical temporal requirements, such as safety conditions and response time. However, STL's expressivity is not sufficient to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hongkai Chen , Zeyu Zhang , Shouvik Roy , Ezio Bartocci , Scott A. Smolka , Scott D. Stoller , Shan Lin

Vanilla Reinforcement Learning (RL) can efficiently solve complex tasks but does not provide any guarantees on system behavior. To bridge this gap, we propose a three-step safe RL procedure for continuous action spaces that provides…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Hanna Krasowski , Prithvi Akella , Aaron D. Ames , Matthias Althoff

Signal temporal logic (STL) provides a powerful, flexible framework for specifying complex autonomy tasks; however, existing methods for planning based on STL specifications have difficulty scaling to long-horizon tasks and are not robust…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Charles Dawson , Chuchu Fan

This study examines the problem of hopping robot navigation planning to achieve simultaneous goal-directed and environment exploration tasks. We consider a scenario in which the robot has mandatory goal-directed tasks defined using Linear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Jesse Jiang , Samuel Coogan , Ye Zhao

An open problem for autonomous driving is how to validate the safety of an autonomous vehicle in simulation. Automated testing procedures can find failures of an autonomous system but these failures may be difficult to interpret due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Anthony Corso , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) provides a rigorous framework for specifying long-horizon robotic tasks, yet existing approaches face a trade-off: model-based synthesis relies on accurate labeled transition systems, whereas learning-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ruijia Liu , Ancheng Hou , Xiang Yin

This work considers the path planning problem for a team of identical robots evolving in a known environment. The robots should satisfy a global specification given as a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula over a set of regions of interest.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Sofia Hustiu , Cristian Mahulea , Marius Kloetzer , Jean-Jacques Lesage

In the field of robotics, researchers face a critical challenge in ensuring reliable and efficient task planning. Verifying high-level task plans before execution significantly reduces errors and enhance the overall performance of these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Danil S. Grigorev , Alexey K. Kovalev , Aleksandr I. Panov

A new logic for verification of security policies is proposed. The logic, HyperLTL, extends linear-time temporal logic (LTL) with connectives for explicit and simultaneous quantification over multiple execution paths, thereby enabling…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-07-10 Masoud Koleini , Michael R. Clarkson , Kristopher K. Micinski

Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise as planners for embodied AI, but their stochastic nature lacks formal reasoning, preventing strict safety guarantees for physical deployment. Current approaches often rely on unreliable LLMs for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Feiyu Wu , Xu Zheng , Yue Qu , Zhuocheng Wang , Zicheng Feng , Hui Li

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) provides a powerful framework to describe complex tasks involving temporal and logical behavior in dynamical systems. This work addresses controller synthesis for continuous-time systems subject to STL…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Vaishnavi Jagabathula , Pushpak Jagtap

In this paper, we develop safe reinforcement-learning-based controllers for systems tasked with accomplishing complex missions that can be expressed as linear temporal logic specifications, similar to those required by search-and-rescue…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 Aris Kanellopoulos , Filippos Fotiadis , Chuangchuang Sun , Zhe Xu , Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis , Ufuk Topcu , Warren E. Dixon

Linear temporal logic and automaton-based run-time verification provide a powerful framework for designing task and motion planning algorithms for autonomous agents. The drawback to this approach is the computational cost of operating on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Brian Paden , Peng Liu , Schuyler Cullen

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) is a powerful language for specifying temporally structured robotic tasks. Planning executable trajectories under STL constraints remains difficult when system dynamics and environment structure are not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ruijia Liu , Ancheng Hou , Xiao Yu , Xiang Yin

This paper introduces the safety controller architecture as a runtime assurance mechanism for system specifications expressed as safety properties in Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). The safety controller has three fundamental components: a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-12 Matthew Abate , Eric Feron , Samuel Coogan

Metric temporal logic (MTL) provides a formal framework for defining time-dependent mission requirements on autonomous vehicles. However, optimizing control decisions subject to these constraints is often computationally expensive. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Andrew F. Thompson , Joshua A. Robbins , Jonah J. Glunt , Sean B. Brennan , Herschel C. Pangborn