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This paper investigates the problem of safety certification for black-box discrete-time stochastic systems, where both the system dynamics and disturbance distributions are unknown, and only sampled data are available. Under such limited…

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In this paper, we propose a data-driven approach to formally verify the safety of (potentially) unknown discrete-time continuous-space stochastic systems. The proposed framework is based on a notion of barrier certificates together with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-24 Ali Salamati , Abolfazl Lavaei , Sadegh Soudjani , Majid Zamani

In this paper, we present a novel data-driven approach to quantify safety for non-linear, discrete-time stochastic systems with unknown noise distribution. We define safety as the probability that the system remains in a given region of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Frederik Baymler Mathiesen , Licio Romao , Simeon C. Calvert , Luca Laurenti , Alessandro Abate

We study the problem of co-designing control barrier functions and linear state feedback controllers for discrete-time linear systems affected by additive disturbances. For disturbances of bounded magnitude, we provide a semi-definite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Marta Fochesato , Han Wang , Antonis Papachristodoulou , Paul Goulart

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

In this paper we present a novel model checking approach to finite-time safety verification of black-box continuous-time dynamical systems within the framework of probably approximately correct (PAC) learning. The black-box dynamical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Bai Xue , Miaomiao Zhang , Arvind Easwaran , Qin Li

This paper studies satisfying temporal logic specifications on stochastic dynamical systems, where the predicates evolve randomly over time. Such randomness may arise from uncertain environment models or external stochastic processes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Mohammad H. Mamduhi , Sadegh Soudjani

This paper studies the problem of enforcing safety of a stochastic dynamical system over a finite time horizon. We use stochastic barrier functions as a means to quantify the probability that a system exits a given safe region of the state…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Cesar Santoyo , Maxence Dutreix , Samuel Coogan

This paper studies the problem of enforcing safety of a stochastic dynamical system over a finite-time horizon. We use stochastic control barrier functions as a means to quantify the probability that a system exits a given safe region of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-12 Cesar Santoyo , Maxence Dutreix , Samuel Coogan

We consider the problem of verifying safety for continuous-time dynamical systems. Developing upon recent advancements in data-driven verification, we use only a finite number of sampled trajectories to learn a barrier certificate, namely a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Luke Rickard , Alessandro Abate , Kostas Margellos

Many systems contain latent variables that make their dynamics partially unidentifiable or cause distribution shifts in the observed statistics between offline and online data. However, existing control techniques often assume access to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Haoming Jing , Yorie Nakahira

This paper addresses the problem of risk-aware fixed-time stabilization of a class of uncertain, output-feedback nonlinear systems modeled via stochastic differential equations. First, novel classes of certificate functions, namely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-01 Mitchell Black , Georgios Fainekos , Bardh Hoxha , Dimitra Panagou

This work establishes a crucial step toward advancing data-driven trajectory-based methods for stochastic systems with unknown mathematical dynamics. In contrast to scenario-based approaches that rely on independent and identically…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-01 Abolfazl Lavaei

Reachability analysis evaluates system safety, by identifying the set of states a system may evolve within over a finite time horizon. In contrast to model-based reachability analysis, data-driven reachability analysis estimates reachable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Elizabeth Dietrich , Hanna Krasowski , Murat Arcak

In this work, we study verification and synthesis problems for safety specifications over unknown discrete-time stochastic systems. When a model of the system is available, barrier certificates have been successfully applied for ensuring…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Ali Salamati , Abolfazl Lavaei , Sadegh Soudjani , Majid Zamani

This paper addresses the quantitative verification of finite-time constrained occupation time for stochastic continuous-time systems governed by stochastic differential equations (SDEs). Unlike classical reachability analysis, which focuses…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Bai Xue , C. -H. Luke Ong

Certifying safety in dynamical systems is crucial, but barrier certificates - widely used to verify that system trajectories remain within a safe region - typically require explicit system models. When dynamics are unknown, data-driven…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Robert Lefringhausen , Sami Leon Noel Aziz Hanna , Elias August , Sandra Hirche

This study proposes a hybrid safety verification framework for closed-loop multi-agent systems under bounded stochastic disturbances. The proposed approach augments control barrier functions with a novel $\psi$-weighted formulation that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Venkat Margapuri , Garik Kazanjian , Naren Kosaraju

Accurate quantification of safety is essential for the design of autonomous systems. In this paper, we present a methodology to characterize the exact probabilities associated with invariance and recovery in safe control. We consider a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-22 Albert Chern , Xiang Wang , Abhiram Iyer , Yorie Nakahira

Controllers for autonomous systems that operate in safety-critical settings must account for stochastic disturbances. Such disturbances are often modelled as process noise, and common assumptions are that the underlying distributions are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-08 Thom S. Badings , Alessandro Abate , Nils Jansen , David Parker , Hasan A. Poonawala , Marielle Stoelinga
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