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This paper investigates necessary and sufficient barrier-like conditions for infinite-horizon safety and reach-avoid verification of stochastic discrete-time systems, derived via a relaxation of the Bellman equations. Unlike prior…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Bai Xue

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 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

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

Providing non-trivial certificates of safety for non-linear stochastic systems is an important open problem that limits the wider adoption of autonomous systems in safety-critical applications. One promising solution to address this problem…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-06 Frederik Baymler Mathiesen , Simeon Calvert , Luca Laurenti

In this paper, we revisit the formal verification problem for stochastic dynamical systems over finite horizon using barrier certificates. Most existing work on this topic focuses on safety properties by constructing barrier certificates…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Yu Chen , Shaoyuan Li , Xiang Yin

In this paper, we investigate the problem of verifying the finite-time safety of continuous-time perturbed deterministic systems represented by ordinary differential equations in the presence of measurable disturbances. Given a finite-time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Yonghan Li , Chenyu Wu , Taoran Wu , Shijie Wang , Bai Xue

We present a novel technique for online safety verification of autonomous systems, which performs reachability analysis efficiently for both bounded and unbounded horizons by employing neural barrier certificates. Our approach uses barrier…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Alessandro Abate , Sergiy Bogomolov , Alec Edwards , Kostiantyn Potomkin , Sadegh Soudjani , Paolo Zuliani

In this paper we study reachability verification problems of stochastic discrete-time dynamical systems over the infinite time horizon. The reachability verification of interest in this paper is to certify specified lower and upper bounds…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Bai Xue

We introduce a general methodology for quantitative model checking and control synthesis with supermartingale certificates. We show that every specification that is invariant to time shifts admits a stochastic invariant that bounds its…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Alessandro Abate , Mirco Giacobbe , Diptarko Roy

We provide certificates for almost sure reachability of continuous-time stochastic systems governed by stochastic differential equations (SDEs). We first show that a standard Euler-Maruyama discretization may fail to preserve almost sure…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Arash Bahari Kordabad , Rupak Majumdar , Sadegh Soudjani

This work is concerned with the safety controller synthesis of stochastic hybrid systems, in which continuous evolutions are described by stochastic differential equations with both Brownian motions and Poisson processes, and instantaneous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Abolfazl Lavaei , Sadegh Soudjani , Emilio Frazzoli

We study the safety verification problem for a class of distributed parameter systems described by partial differential equations (PDEs), i.e., the problem of checking whether the solutions of the PDE satisfy a set of constraints at a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-11 Mohamadreza Ahmadi , Giorgio Valmorbida , Antonis Papachristodoulou

This work develops a theoretical framework for safety controller synthesis in discrete-time stochastic nonlinear polynomial systems subject to time-invariant delays (dt-SNPS-td). While safety analysis of stochastic systems using control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-09 Omid Akbarzadeh , MohammadHossein Ashoori , Amy Nejati , Abolfazl Lavaei

Almost sure reachability refers to the property of a stochastic system whereby, from any initial condition, the system state reaches a given target set with probability one. In this paper, we study the problem of certifying almost sure…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Arash Bahari Kordabad , Rupak Majumdar , Harshit Jitendra Motwani , Sadegh Soudjani

We present a data-driven approach to the quantitative verification of probabilistic programs and stochastic dynamical models. Our approach leverages neural networks to compute tight and sound bounds for the probability that a stochastic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Alessandro Abate , Alec Edwards , Mirco Giacobbe , Hashan Punchihewa , Diptarko Roy

We propose a methodology to address two analysis problems concerning complex systems, namely bounding state functionals of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) and verifying set avoidance of systems described by partial differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-30 Mohamadreza Ahmadi , Giorgio Valmorbida , Antonis Papachristodoulou

We introduce for the first time a neural-certificate framework for continuous-time stochastic dynamical systems. Autonomous learning systems in the physical world demand continuous-time reasoning, yet existing learnable certificates for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Grigory Neustroev , Mirco Giacobbe , Anna Lukina

This paper presents a method for the simultaneous synthesis of a barrier certificate and a safe controller for discrete-time nonlinear stochastic systems. Our approach, based on piecewise stochastic control barrier functions, reduces the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Rayan Mazouz , Luca Laurenti , Morteza Lahijanian

Viewing stochastic processes through the lens of occupation measures has proved to be a powerful angle of attack for the theoretical and computational analysis of stochastic optimal control problems. We present a simple modification of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Flemming Holtorf , Alan Edelman , Christopher Rackauckas