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In this work, we propose a data-driven scheme within a compositional framework with noisy data to design robust safety controllers in a fully decentralized fashion for large-scale interconnected networks with unknown mathematical dynamics.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-14 Omid Akbarzadeh , Behrad Samari , Amy Nejati , Abolfazl Lavaei

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

Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) fuse proprioceptive sensors such as GPS and exteroceptive sensors including Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and cameras for state estimation and environmental observation. It has been shown that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-12 Hongchao Zhang , Shiyu Cheng , Luyao Niu , Andrew Clark

Verification and safety assessment of neural network controlled systems (NNCSs) is an emerging challenge. To provide guarantees, verification tools must efficiently capture the interplay between the neural network and the physical system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Carlos Trapiello , Christophe Combastel , Ali Zolghadri

Ensuring the safety and efficacy of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) is challenging due to the large variability of their operating environment. Model checking has been proposed for validation of CPSs, but the models of the environment are…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Guangyao Chen , Zhihao Jiang

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

Hybrid systems play a crucial role in modeling real-world applications where discrete and continuous dynamics interact, including autonomous vehicles, power systems, and traffic networks. Safety verification for these systems requires…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Peng Xie , Johannes Betz , Davide M. Raimondo , Amr Alanwar

Autonomous cyber-physical systems (CPS) can improve safety and efficiency for safety-critical applications, but require rigorous testing before deployment. The complexity of these systems often precludes the use of formal verification and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Anthony Corso , Robert J. Moss , Mark Koren , Ritchie Lee , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

We propose a method to perform set-based state estimation of an unknown dynamical linear system using a data-driven set propagation function. Our method comes with set-containment guarantees, making it applicable to safety-critical systems.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Amr Alanwar , Alexander Berndt , Karl Henrik Johansson , Henrik Sandberg

In this paper, we revisit the formal verification problem for stochastic dynamical systems over finite horizon using barrier certificates. Most existing work on this topic focuses on safety properties by constructing barrier certificates…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Yu Chen , Shaoyuan Li , Xiang Yin

Privacy is an increasing concern in cyber-physical systems that operates over a shared network. In this paper, we propose a method for privacy verification of cyber- physical systems modeled by Markov decision processes (MDPs) and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Mohamadreza Ahmadi , Bo Wu , Hai Lin , Ufuk Topcu

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

As the use of autonomous robots expands in tasks that are complex and challenging to model, the demand for robust data-driven control methods that can certify safety and stability in uncertain conditions is increasing. However, the…

This paper presents a new data-driven robust predictive control law, for linear systems affected by unknown-but-bounded process disturbances. A sequence of input-state data is used to construct a suitable uncertainty representation based on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Renato Quartullo , Andrea Garulli , Mirko Leomanni

This paper presents a novel data-driven framework for the robust safety verification and safe control synthesis of unknown monotone discrete-time systems. While existing data-driven safety analysis approaches are often either heuristic in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Felipe Galarza-Jimenez , Majid Zamani , Saber Jafarpour

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) pose new challenges to verification and validation that go beyond the proof of functional correctness based on high-level models. Particular challenges are, in particular for formal methods, its heterogeneity…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Carna Radojicic , Christoph Grimm , Axel Jantsch , Michael Rathmair

In this paper, we present an algorithm for synthesizing certificates---so-called barrier certificates---for safety of hybrid dynamical systems. Unlike the usual approach of using constraint solvers to compute the certificate from the system…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Stefan Ratschan

Various techniques have been used in recent years for verifying quantum computers, that is, for determining whether a quantum computer/system satisfies a given formal specification of correctness. Barrier certificates are a recent novel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Marco Lewis , Paolo Zuliani , Sadegh Soudjani

Failures in safety-critical Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), both software and hardware-related, can lead to severe incidents impacting physical infrastructure or even harming humans. As a result, extensive simulations and field tests need to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Ankit Agrawal , Philipp Zech , Michael Vierhauser

Infinite networks are complex interconnected systems comprising a countably infinite number of subsystems, for which no fixed upper bound on the number of participating subsystems is specified a priori since it may vary over time as agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Mahdieh Zaker , Amy Nejati , Abolfazl Lavaei