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In this work, we propose an abstraction and refinement methodology for the controller synthesis of discrete-time stochastic systems to enforce complex logical properties expressed by deterministic finite automata (a.k.a. DFA). Our proposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Bingzhuo Zhong , Abolfazl Lavaei , Majid Zamani , Marco Caccamo

We consider the synthesis of control policies from temporal logic specifications for robots that interact with multiple dynamic environment agents. Each environment agent is modeled by a Markov chain whereas the robot is modeled by a finite…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-03-07 Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn , Alphan Ulusoy , Calin Belta , Emilio Frazzoli , Daniela Rus

We present a compositional approach to controller synthesis of discrete event system controllers with linear temporal logic (LTL) goals. We exploit the modular structure of the plant to be controlled, given as a set of labelled transition…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Hernan Gagliardi , Victor Braberman , Sebastian Uchitel

Cyber-physical systems are conducting increasingly complex tasks, which are often modeled using formal languages such as temporal logic. The system's ability to perform the required tasks can be curtailed by malicious adversaries that mount…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Luyao Niu , Jie Fu , Andrew Clark

Reactive synthesis is a paradigm for automatically building correct-by-construction systems that interact with an unknown or adversarial environment. We study how to do reactive synthesis when part of the specification of the system is that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Daniel J. Fremont , Sanjit A. Seshia

Probabilistic hyperproperties specify quantitative relations between the probabilities of reaching different target sets of states from different initial sets of states. This class of behavioral properties is suitable for capturing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Roman Andriushchenko , Ezio Bartocci , Milan Ceska , Francesco Pontiggia , Sarah Sallinger

In this paper the problem of cooperative task planning of multi-agent systems when timed constraints are imposed to the system is investigated. We consider timed constraints given by Metric Interval Temporal Logic (MITL). We propose a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Alexandros Nikou , Jana Tumova , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

The paper presents a novel approach to synthesize robust controllers for nonlinear systems along perturbed trajectories. The approach linearizes the system with respect to a reference trajectory. In contrast to existing methods rooted in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Felix Biertümpfel , Peter Seiler , Harald Pfifer

We introduce a technique for synthesis of control and communication strategies for a team of agents from a global task specification given as a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula over a set of properties that can be satisfied by the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2011-11-10 Yushan Chen , Xu Chu Ding , Calin Belta

The problem of time-constrained multi-agent task scheduling and control synthesis is addressed. We assume the existence of a high level plan which consists of a sequence of cooperative tasks, each of which is associated with a deadline and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Pian Yu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We present a (semi)-algorithm to compute winning strategies for parametric timed games. Previous algorithms only synthesized constraints on the clock parameters for which the game is winning. A new definition of (winning) strategies is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Mikael Bisgaard Dahlsen-Jensen , Baptiste Fievet , Laure Petrucci , Jaco van de Pol

Automatic synthesis from temporal logic specifications is an attractive alternative to manual system design, due to its ability to generate correct-by-construction implementations from high-level specifications. Due to the high complexity…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Philippe Heim , Rayna Dimitrova

This paper presents a method for synthesizing a reactive program which coordinates the actions of a group of other reactive programs, so that the combined system satisfies a temporal specification of its desired long-term behavior.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Suguman Bansal , Kedar S. Namjoshi , Yaniv Sa'ar

Constructing good test cases is difficult and time-consuming, especially if the system under test is still under development and its exact behavior is not yet fixed. We propose a new approach to compute test strategies for reactive systems…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Roderick Bloem , Goerschwin Fey , Fabian Greif , Robert Koenighofer , Ingo Pill , Heinz Riener , Franz Roeck

In this paper, we present an approach for designing correct-by-design controllers for cyber-physical systems composed of multiple dynamically interconnected uncertain systems. We consider networked discrete-time uncertain nonlinear systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Oliver Schön , Birgit van Huijgevoort , Sofie Haesaert , Sadegh Soudjani

The reactive synthesis problem is to find a finite-state controller that satisfies a given temporal-logic specification regardless of how its environment behaves. Developing a formal specification is a challenging and tedious task and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-08-20 Rajeev Alur , Salar Moarref , Ufuk Topcu

Reactive synthesis is a key technique for the design of correct-by-construction systems and has been thoroughly investigated in the last decades. It consists in the synthesis of a controller that reacts to environment's inputs satisfying a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Alessandro Cimatti , Luca Geatti , Nicola Gigante , Angelo Montanari , Stefano Tonetta

In this work, we propose a novel approach for the continuous-time control synthesis of nonlinear systems under nested signal temporal logic (STL) specifications. While the majority of existing literature focuses on control synthesis for STL…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-24 Pian Yu , Xiao Tan , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This manuscript discusses a scalable controller synthesis method for networked systems with a large number of identical subsystems based on the H-infinity control framework. The dynamics of the individual subsystems are described by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Pieter Appeltans , Wim Michiels

Executing a Golog program on an actual robot typically requires additional steps to account for hardware or software details of the robot platform, which can be formulated as constraints on the program. Such constraints are often temporal,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Till Hofmann , Gerhard Lakemeyer