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We introduce an automated, formal, counterexample-based approach to synthesise Barrier Certificates (BC) for the safety verification of continuous and hybrid dynamical models. The approach is underpinned by an inductive framework: this is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-20 Andrea Peruffo , Daniele Ahmed , Alessandro Abate

Synthesizing safety controllers for general nonlinear systems is a highly challenging task, particularly when the system models are unknown, and input constraints are present. While some recent efforts have explored data-driven safety…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Behrad Samari , Abolfazl Lavaei

This work is concerned with developing a data-driven approach for learning control barrier certificates (CBCs) and associated safety controllers for discrete-time nonlinear polynomial systems with unknown mathematical models, guaranteeing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Behrad Samari , Omid Akbarzadeh , Mahdieh Zaker , Abolfazl Lavaei

We investigate the problem of establishing finite-time probabilistic safety guarantees for discrete-time stochastic dynamical systems subject to unknown disturbance distributions, using barrier certificate methods. Our approach develops a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Taoran Wu , Dominik Wagner , C. -H. Luke Ong , Bai Xue

Synthesising safe controllers from visual data typically requires extensive supervised labelling of safety-critical data, which is often impractical in real-world settings. Recent advances in world models enable reliable prediction in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Mehul Anand , Shishir Kolathaya

Control barrier certificates have proven effective in formally guaranteeing the safety of the control systems. However, designing a control barrier certificate is a time-consuming and computationally expensive endeavor that requires expert…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Alireza Nadali , Ashutosh Trivedi , Majid Zamani

In this paper, we investigate the problem of verifying the finite-time safety of continuous-time perturbed deterministic systems represented by ordinary differential equations in the presence of measurable disturbances. Given a finite-time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Yonghan Li , Chenyu Wu , Taoran Wu , Shijie Wang , Bai Xue

Many systems contain latent variables that make their dynamics partially unidentifiable or cause distribution shifts in the observed statistics between offline and online data. However, existing control techniques often assume access to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Haoming Jing , Yorie Nakahira

We introduce for the first time a neural-certificate framework for continuous-time stochastic dynamical systems. Autonomous learning systems in the physical world demand continuous-time reasoning, yet existing learnable certificates for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Grigory Neustroev , Mirco Giacobbe , Anna Lukina

Recent advances in Deep Machine Learning have shown promise in solving complex perception and control loops via methods such as reinforcement and imitation learning. However, guaranteeing safety for such learned deep policies has been a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Tom Hirshberg , Sai Vemprala , Ashish Kapoor

Safety-critical control tasks with high levels of uncertainty are becoming increasingly common. Typically, techniques that guarantee safety during learning and control utilize constraint-based safety certificates, which can be leveraged to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-07 Alexandre Capone , Ryan Cosner , Aaron Ames , Sandra Hirche

We present a novel technique for online safety verification of autonomous systems, which performs reachability analysis efficiently for both bounded and unbounded horizons by employing neural barrier certificates. Our approach uses barrier…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Alessandro Abate , Sergiy Bogomolov , Alec Edwards , Kostiantyn Potomkin , Sadegh Soudjani , Paolo Zuliani

We present a simulation-based approach for generating barrier certificate functions for safety verification of cyber-physical systems (CPS) that contain neural network-based controllers. A linear programming solver is utilized to find a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Cumhur Erkan Tuncali , James Kapinski , Hisahiro Ito , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh

This report presents a neurosymbolic framework for safety verification and control synthesis in high-dimensional monotone dynamical systems without relying on explicit models or conservative Lipschitz bounds. The approach combines the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Saber Jafarpour , Alireza Nadali , Ashutosh Trivedi , Majid Zamani

In this paper, we investigate the probabilistic formal verification of stochastic dynamical systems over continuous state spaces. Motivated by problems in state estimation and information-flow security, we introduce the notion of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Bohan Cui , Jianing Zhao , Yu Chen , Alessandro Abate , Marta Kwiatkowska , Xiang Yin

In modern robotics, addressing the lack of accurate state space information in real-world scenarios has led to a significant focus on utilizing visuomotor observation to provide safety assurances. Although supervised learning methods, such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Manan Tayal , Aditya Singh , Pushpak Jagtap , Shishir Kolathaya

Algorithmic verification of realistic systems to satisfy safety and other temporal requirements has suffered from poor scalability of the employed formal approaches. To design systems with rigorous guarantees, many approaches still rely on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Oliver Schön , Zhengang Zhong , Sadegh Soudjani

The goal of this paper is certifying safety of dynamical systems subject to uncertainty. Existing approaches use trajectory data to estimate transition probabilities, and compute safety probabilities recursively via dynamic programming…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Oliver Schön , Licio Romao , Sadegh Soudjani

In recent years, various techniques have been explored for the verification of quantum circuits, including the use of barrier certificates, mathematical tools capable of demonstrating the correctness of such systems. These certificates…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Siwei Hu , Victor Lopata , Sadegh Soudjani , Paolo Zuliani

Control barrier functions have shown great success in addressing control problems with safety guarantees. These methods usually find the next safe control input by solving an online quadratic programming problem. However, model uncertainty…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Chuanzheng Wang , Yinan Li , Yiming Meng , Stephen L. Smith , Jun Liu