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In this paper, we present a controller synthesis approach for wind turbine generators (WTG) and energy storage systems with metric temporal logic (MTL) specifications, with provable probabilistic guarantees in the stochastic environment of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 Zhe Xu , Agung Julius , Ufuk Topcu , Joe H. Chow

We present the Temporal Logic Synthesis Format (TLSF), a high-level format to describe synthesis problems via Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). The format builds upon standard LTL, but additionally allows to use high level constructs, such as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-01-21 Swen Jacobs , Felix Klein

We discuss the problem of experimentally evaluating linear-time temporal logic (LTL) synthesis tools for reactive systems. We first survey previous such work for the currently publicly available synthesis tools, and then draw conclusions by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-02-22 Rüdiger Ehlers

We show that given a desired closed-loop response for a system, there exists an affine subspace of controllers that achieve this response. By leveraging the existence of this subspace, we are able to separate controller design from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Jing Shuang Li , Dimitar Ho

In runtime verification, manually formalizing a specification for monitoring system executions is a tedious and error-prone process. To address this issue, we consider the problem of automatically synthesizing formal specifications from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Ritam Raha , Rajarshi Roy , Nathanael Fijalkow , Daniel Neider , Guillermo A. Perez

In this paper, we study incremental LTLf synthesis -- a form of reactive synthesis where the goals are given incrementally while in execution. In other words, the protagonist agent is already executing a strategy for a certain goal when it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Giuseppe De Giacomo , Yves Lespérance , Gianmarco Parretti , Fabio Patrizi , Moshe Y. Vardi

We present a compositional control synthesis method based on assume-guarantee contracts with application to correct-by-construction design of vehicular mission plans. In our approach, a mission-level specification expressed in a fragment of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-22 Muhammad Waqas , Nikhil Vijay Naik , Petros Ioannou , Pierluigi Nuzzo

In this paper we introduce a class of Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) specifications for which the problem of synthesizing controllers can be solved in polynomial time. The new class of specifications is an LTL fragment that we term Mode-Target…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Ayca Balkan , Moshe Vardi , Paulo Tabuada

Supervisory control of discrete-event systems with a global safety specification and with only local supervisors is a difficult problem. For global specifications the equivalent conditions for local control synthesis to equal global control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-03-22 Jan Komenda , Tomas Masopust , Jan H. van Schuppen

Reactive synthesis is a technology for the automatic construction of reactive systems from logical specifications. In these lecture notes, we study different algorithms for the reactive synthesis problem of linear-time temporal logic (LTL).…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Bernd Finkbeiner , Felix Klein

While data synthesis and distillation are promising strategies to enhance small language models, current approaches heavily rely on Large Language Models (LLMs), which suffer from high computational costs, environmental inefficiency, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Xin Gao , Qizhi Pei , Zinan Tang , Yu Li , Honglin Lin , Jiang Wu , Lijun Wu , Conghui He

LTL synthesis is the problem of synthesizing a reactive system from a formal specification in Linear Temporal Logic. The extension of allowing for partial observability, where the system does not have direct access to all relevant…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Lucas M. Tabajara , Moshe Y. Vardi

Synthesizing a program that realizes a logical specification is a classical problem in computer science. We examine a particular type of program synthesis, where the objective is to synthesize a strategy that reacts to a potentially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Alberto Camacho , Sheila A. McIlraith

In this paper, we present a control framework that allows magnetic microrobot teams to accomplish complex micromanipulation tasks captured by global Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formulas. To address this problem, we propose an optimal…

Recent advances in learning for control allow to synthesize vehicle controllers from learned system dynamics and maintain robust stability guarantees. However, no approach is well-suited for training linear time-invariant (LTI) controllers…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-11 Marc-Antoine Beaudoin , Benoit Boulet

G4LTL-ST automatically synthesizes control code for industrial Programmable Logic Controls (PLC) from timed behavioral specifications of input-output signals. These specifications are expressed in a linear temporal logic (LTL) extended with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-05-16 Chih-Hong Cheng , Chung-Hao Huang , Harald Ruess , Stefan Stattelmann

Agents controlled by the output of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms often transition to unsafe states, particularly in uncertain and partially observable environments. Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) provide a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Steven Carr , Georgios Bakirtzis , Ufuk Topcu

Willems' fundamental lemma and system level synthesis both characterize a linear dynamic system by its input/output sequences. In this work, we extend the application of the fundamental lemma from deterministic to uncertain LTI systems and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-11 Yinghao Lian , Colin N. Jones

In this paper, we present a provably correct controller synthesis approach for switched stochastic control systems with metric temporal logic (MTL) specifications with provable probabilistic guarantees. We first present the stochastic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-29 Zhe Xu , Yichen Zhang

We take a divide and conquer approach to design controllers for reachability problems given large-scale linear systems with polyhedral constraints on states, controls, and disturbances. Such systems are made of small subsystems with coupled…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Kasra Ghasemi , Sadra Sadraddini , Calin Belta