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This paper addresses the challenge of integrating explicit hard constraints into the control barrier function (CBF) framework for ensuring safety in autonomous systems, including robots. We propose a novel data-driven method to derive CBFs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Jaemin Lee , Jeeseop Kim , Aaron D. Ames

Data-driven reachability analysis using matrix zonotopes faces a fundamental challenge: the number of generators in the reachable set grows exponentially during propagation, while current order reduction yields overly conservative…

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We present a robust data-driven control scheme for an unknown linear system model with bounded process and measurement noise. Instead of depending on a system model in traditional predictive control, a controller utilizing data-driven…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 Amr Alanwar , Yvonne Stürz , Karl Henrik Johansson

In this paper, we propose a data-driven robust safety verification framework for stochastic dynamical systems modeled as Markov decision processes with time-varying and uncertain transition probabilities. Rather than assuming access to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Abhijit Mazumdar , Manuela L. Bujorianu , Rafal Wisniewski

Implementation of learning-based control remains challenging due to the absence of safety guarantees. Safe control methods have turned to model-based safety filters to address these challenges, but this is paradoxical when the ultimate goal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-04 Mohammad Bajelani , Klaske van Heusden

We extend latent representation methods for safety control design to set-valued states. Recent work has shown that barrier functions designed in a learned latent space can transfer safety guarantees back to the original system, but these…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Wenyuan Wu , Peng Xie , Zhen Zhang , Yanliang Huang , Karl H. Johansson , Amr Alanwar

Traditional techniques for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) security design either treat the cyber and physical systems independently, or do not address the specific vulnerabilities of real time embedded controllers and networks used to monitor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Ashraf Tantawy , Abdelkarim Erradi , Sherif Abdelwahed , Khaled Shaban

The integration of machine learning (ML) into cyber-physical systems (CPS) offers significant benefits, including enhanced efficiency, predictive capabilities, real-time responsiveness, and the enabling of autonomous operations. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Xi Zheng , Aloysius K. Mok , Ruzica Piskac , Yong Jae Lee , Bhaskar Krishnamachari , Dakai Zhu , Oleg Sokolsky , Insup Lee

This paper generalizes the control barrier function framework by replacing scalar-valued functions with matrix-valued ones. Specifically, we develop barrier conditions for safe sets defined by matrix inequalities -- both semidefinite and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Pio Ong , Yicheng Xu , Ryan M. Bena , Faryar Jabbari , Aaron D. Ames

The possibility of errors in human-engineered formal verification software, such as model checkers, poses a serious threat to the purpose of these tools. An established approach to mitigate this problem are certificates -- lightweight,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Tim Quatmann , Maximilian Schäffeler , Maximilian Weininger , Tobias Winkler , Daniel Zilken

Hybrid zonotopes generalize constrained zonotopes by introducing additional binary variables and possess some unique properties that make them convenient to represent nonconvex sets. This paper presents novel hybrid zonotope-based methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Yuhao Zhang , Xiangru Xu

The complexity of cyberattacks in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) calls for a mechanism that can evaluate the operational behaviour and security without negatively affecting the operation of live systems. In this regard, Digital Twins (DTs)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Sabah Suhail , Raja Jurdak

Safety of stochastic dynamic systems in environments with dynamic obstacles is studied in this paper through the lens of stochastic barrier functions. We introduce both time-invariant and time-varying barrier certificates for discrete-time,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Rayan Mazouz , Luca Laurenti , Morteza Lahijanian

This paper studies provable security guarantees for cyber-physical systems (CPS) under actuator attacks. In particular, we consider CPS safety and propose a new attack detection mechanism based on zeroing control barrier function (ZCBF)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Kunal Garg , Ricardo G. Sanfelice , Alvaro A. Cardenas

Modern cyber-physical systems (CPS) integrate physics, computation, and learning, demanding modeling frameworks that are simultaneously composable, learnable, and verifiable. Yet existing approaches treat these goals in isolation: causal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Thomas Beckers , Ján Drgoňa , Truong X. Nghiem

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are required to satisfy safety constraints in various application domains such as robotics, industrial manufacturing systems, and power systems. Faults and cyber attacks have been shown to cause safety…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Abdullah Al Maruf , Luyao Niu , Andrew Clark , J. Sukarno Mertoguno , Radha Poovendran

This paper addresses connectivity preservation in leader-follower multi-agent systems with unknown control-affine dynamics and local state information. We introduce the distributed data-driven zeroing control barrier function (3D-ZCBF)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Mirhan Urkmez , Maryam Sharifi , Shahab Heshmati-Alamdari

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

We provide a novel approach to synthesize controllers for nonlinear continuous dynamical systems with control against safety properties. The controllers are based on neural networks (NNs). To certify the safety property we utilize barrier…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Hengjun Zhao , Xia Zeng , Taolue Chen , Zhiming Liu , Jim Woodcock

Diagnosability is a system theoretical property characterizing whether fault occurrences in a system can always be detected within a finite time. In this paper, we investigate the verification of diagnosability for cyber-physical systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Bingzhuo Zhong , Weijie Dong , Xiang Yin , Majid Zamani