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Control and communication are often tightly coupled in motion planning of networked mobile robots, due to the fact that robotic motions will affect the overall communication quality, and the quality of service (QoS) of the communication…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Zhiyu Liu , Bo Wu , Jin Dai , Hai Lin

We propose a mathematical framework for synthesizing motion plans for multi-agent systems that fulfill complex, high-level and formal local specifications in the presence of inter-agent communication. The proposed synthesis framework…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Zhiyu Liu , Jin Dai , Bo Wu , Hai Lin

The software architecture behind modern autonomous vehicles (AV) is becoming more complex steadily. Safety verification is now an imminent task prior to the large-scale deployment of such convoluted models. For safety-critical tasks in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Aditya Parameshwaran , Yue Wang

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) robustness is a common objective for optimal robot control, but its dependence on history limits the robot's decision-making capabilities when used in Model Predictive Control (MPC) approaches. In this work, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Roland Ilyes , Lara Brudermüller , Nick Hawes , Bruno Lacerda

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance in mathematical reasoning tasks when guided by Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting. However, they tend to produce highly confident yet incorrect outputs, which poses significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Zhenjiang Mao , Artem Bisliouk , Rohith Reddy Nama , Ivan Ruchkin

The reliability of autonomous systems depends on their robustness, i.e., their ability to meet their objectives under uncertainty. In this paper, we study spatiotemporal robustness of temporal logic specifications evaluated over…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Oliver Schön , Lars Lindemann

This paper studies the online control synthesis problem for uncertain discrete-time systems subject to signal temporal logic (STL) specifications. Different from existing techniques, this work proposes an approach based on STL, reachability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Pian Yu , Yulong Gao , Frank J. Jiang , Karl H. Johansson , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

The control synthesis of a dynamic system subject to a signal temporal logic (STL) specification is commonly formulated as a mixed-integer linear/convex programming (MILP/MICP) problem. Solving such a problem is computationally expensive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Zengjie Zhang , Sofie Haesaert

Path planning for a robot is one of the major problems in the area of robotics. When a robot is given a task in the form of a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) specification such that the task needs to be carried out repetitively, we want the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Priya Purohit , Indranil Saha

In time-critical systems, such as air traffic control systems, it is crucial to design control policies that are robust to timing uncertainty. Recently, the notion of Asynchronous Temporal Robustness (ATR) was proposed to capture the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Xinyi Yu , Xiang Yin , Lars Lindemann

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown promise in various robotics applications, yet its deployment on real systems is still limited due to safety and operational constraints. The safe RL field has gained considerable attention in recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Sadık Bera Yüksel , Ali Tevfik Buyukkocak , Derya Aksaray

In the field of control engineering, the connection between Signal Temporal Logic (STL) and time-varying Control Barrier Functions (CBF) has attracted considerable attention. CBFs have demonstrated notable success in ensuring the safety of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Andrea Ruo , Lorenzo Sabattini , Valeria Villani

This paper proposes a specification-guided framework for control of nonlinear systems with linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications. In contrast with well-known abstraction-based methods, the proposed framework directly characterizes the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-03 Yinan Li , Zhibing Sun , Jun Liu

Techniques based on Reinforcement Learning (RL) are increasingly being used to design control policies for robotic systems. RL fundamentally relies on state-based reward functions to encode desired behavior of the robot and bad reward…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Parv Kapoor , Anand Balakrishnan , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh

This work addresses maximally robust control synthesis under unknown disturbances. We consider a general nonlinear system, subject to a Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specification, and wish to jointly synthesize the maximal possible…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Joris Verhagen , Lars Lindemann , Jana Tumova

In some optimal control problems, complex relationships between states and inputs cannot be easily represented using continuous constraints, necessitating the use of discrete logic instead. This paper presents a method for incorporating…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 J. Wehbeh , E. C. Kerrigan

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) is a formal language for describing a broad range of real-valued, temporal properties in cyber-physical systems. While there has been extensive research on verification and control synthesis from STL…

We address multi-robot motion planning under Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications with kinodynamic constraints. Exact approaches face scalability bottlenecks and limited adaptability, while conventional sampling-based methods require…

The goal of robust motion planning consists of designing open-loop controls which optimally steer a system to a specific target region while mitigating uncertainties and disturbances which affect the dynamics. Recently, stochastic optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-03 Clara Leparoux , Riccardo Bonalli , Bruno Hérissé , Frédéric Jean

Machine learning techniques using neural networks have achieved promising success for time-series data classification. However, the models that they produce are challenging to verify and interpret. In this paper, we propose an explainable…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Danyang Li , Mingyu Cai , Cristian-Ioan Vasile , Roberto Tron