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This paper presents composable attestation as a generalized cryptographic framework for Continuous and Incremental Trust in Distributed Systems,such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) computation, and Open Source Software (OSS) supply chain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Sheng Sun , Sarah Evans

This paper introduces a predictive control barrier function (PCBF) framework for enforcing state constraints in discrete-time systems with unknown relative degree, which can be caused by input delays or unmodeled input dynamics. Existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Juan Augusto Paredes Salazar , James Usevitch , Ankit Goel

Reach-avoid analysis is fundamental to reasoning about the safety and goal-reaching behavior of dynamical systems, and serves as a foundation for specifying and verifying more complex control objectives. This paper introduces a reach-avoid…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Rayan Mazouz , Luca Laurenti , Morteza Lahijanian

Obtaining a controlled invariant set is crucial for safety-critical control with control barrier functions (CBFs) but is non-trivial for complex nonlinear systems and constraints. Backup control barrier functions allow such sets to be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-16 David E. J. van Wijk , Samuel Coogan , Tamas G. Molnar , Manoranjan Majji , Kerianne L. Hobbs

Software model checking is a challenging problem, and generating relevant invariants is a key factor in proving the safety properties of a program. Program invariants can be obtained by various approaches, including lightweight procedures…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Dirk Beyer , Po-Chun Chien , Nian-Ze Lee

We introduce High-Relative Degree Stochastic Control Lyapunov functions and Barrier Functions as a means to ensure asymptotic stability of the system and incorporate state dependent high relative degree safety constraints on a non-linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Meenakshi Sarkar , Debasish Ghose , Evangelos A. Theodorou

High-dimensional/high-fidelity nonlinear dynamical systems appear naturally when the goal is to accurately model real-world phenomena. Many physical properties are thereby encoded in the internal differential structure of these resulting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Peter Benner , Serkan Gugercin , Steffen W. R. Werner

We consider safety-critical multi-agent systems with distributed control architectures and potentially varying network topologies. While learning-based distributed control enables scalability and high performance, a lack of formal safety…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Jonas Ohnemus , Alexandre Didier , Ahmed Aboudonia , Andrea Carron , Melanie N. Zeilinger

This paper addresses the synthesis of safety-critical controllers using estimate feedback. We propose an observer-controller interconnection to ensure that the nonlinear system remains safe despite bounded disturbances on the system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Devansh R. Agrawal , Dimitra Panagou

This paper considers the general problem of transitioning theoretically safe controllers to hardware. Concretely, we explore the application of control barrier functions (CBFs) to sampled-data systems: systems that evolve continuously but…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-14 Andrew Singletary , Yuxiao Chen , Aaron D. Ames

This paper considers the problem of designing a continuous-time dynamical system that solves a constrained nonlinear optimization problem and makes the feasible set forward invariant and asymptotically stable. The invariance of the feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Ahmed Allibhoy , Jorge Cortés

We present StochasticBarrier.jl, an open-source Julia-based toolbox for generating Stochastic Barrier Functions (SBFs) for safety verification of discrete-time stochastic systems with additive Gaussian noise. StochasticBarrier.jl certifies…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Rayan Mazouz , Frederik Baymler Mathiesen , Luca Laurenti , Morteza Lahijanian

Control barrier function (CBF)-based methods provide the minimum modification necessary to formally guarantee safety in the context of quadratic programming, and strict safety guarantee for safety critical systems. However, most CBF-related…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-27 Xiaoxiao Li , Zhirui Sun , Hongpeng Wang , Shuai Li , Jiankun Wang

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

This paper presents a systematic method for synthesizing a Control Barrier Function (CBF) that encodes predictive information into a CBF. Unlike other methods, the synthesized CBF can account for changes and time-variations in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-23 Adrian Wiltz , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Semi-supervised template update systems allow to automatically take into account the intra-class variability of the biometric data over time. Such systems can be inefficient by including too many impostor's samples or skipping too many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-04 Romain Giot , Christophe Rosenberger , Bernadette Dorizzi

We propose new methods to synthesize control barrier function (CBF)-based safe controllers that avoid input saturation, which can cause safety violations. In particular, our method is created for high-dimensional, general nonlinear systems,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Simin Liu , Changliu Liu , John Dolan

With multi-agent systems increasingly deployed autonomously at scale in complex environments, ensuring safety of the data-driven policies is critical. Control Barrier Functions have emerged as an effective tool for enforcing safety…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Nikolaos Bousias , Lars Lindemann , George Pappas

Although diffusion models have successfully extended to function-valued data, stochastic interpolants -- which offer a flexible way to bridge arbitrary distributions -- remain limited to finite-dimensional settings. This work bridges this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-03 James Boran Yu , RuiKang OuYang , Julien Horwood , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato