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Signal Temporal Logic (STL) offers a concise yet expressive framework for specifying and reasoning about spatio-temporal behaviors of robotic systems. Attractively, STL admits the notion of robustness, the degree to which an input signal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Parv Kapoor , Kazuki Mizuta , Eunsuk Kang , Karen Leung

Counterexample-guided inductive synthesis CEGIS is used to synthesize programs from a candidate space of programs. The technique is guaranteed to terminate and synthesize the correct program if the space of candidate programs is finite. But…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-07-22 Susmit Jha , Sanjit A. Seshia

We introduce a counter-example guided inductive synthesis (CEGIS) framework for synthesizing continuous-time switching controllers that guarantee reach while stay (RWS) properties of the closed loop system. The solution is based on…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Hadi Ravanbakhsh , Sriram Sankaranarayanan

Real-time cyber-physical systems depend on deterministic task execution to guarantee safety and correctness. Unfortunately, this determinism can unintentionally expose timing information that enables adversaries to infer task execution…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Arkaprava Sain , Sunandan Adhikary , Soumyajit Dey

The application of large language models to code generation has evolved from one-shot generation to iterative refinement, yet the evolution of security throughout iteration remains insufficiently understood. Through comparative experiments…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yi Chen , Yun Bian , Haiquan Wang , Shihao Li , Zhe Cui

MeetEval is an open-source toolkit to evaluate all kinds of meeting transcription systems. It provides a unified interface for the computation of commonly used Word Error Rates (WERs), specifically cpWER, ORC-WER and MIMO-WER along other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Thilo von Neumann , Christoph Boeddeker , Marc Delcroix , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

We propose a counter-example guided inductive synthesis (CEGIS) scheme for the design of control Lyapunov functions and associated state-feedback controllers for linear systems affected by parametric uncertainty with arbitrary shape. In the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Daniele Masti , Filippo Fabiani , Giorgio Gnecco , Alberto Bemporad

In software verification, a successful automated program proof is the ultimate triumph. The road to such success is, however, paved with many failed proof attempts. The message produced by the prover when a proof fails is often obscure,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Li Huang , Bertrand Meyer , Manuel Oriol

Temporal Logic (TL) guided control problems have gained interests in recent years. By using the TL, one can specify a wide range of temporal constraints on the system and is widely used in cyber-physical systems. On the other hand, Control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Guang Yang , Roberto Tron , Calin Belta

We introduce a metric that can quantify the temporal relaxation of Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications and facilitate resilient control synthesis in the face of infeasibilities. The proposed metric quantifies a cumulative notion of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Ali Tevfik Buyukkocak , Derya Aksaray

Selecting optimal intervals of checkpointing an application is important for minimizing the run time of the application in the presence of system failures. Most of the existing efforts on checkpointing interval selection were developed for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-02 K. Raghavendra , Sathish S Vadhiyar

Secure software engineering is crucial but can be time-consuming; therefore, methods that could expedite the identification of software weaknesses without reducing the process efficacy would benefit the software engineering industry and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Mounika Vanamala , Sean Loesch , Alexander Caravella

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) is expressive formal language that specifies spatio-temporal requirements in robotics. Its quantitative robustness semantics can be easily integrated with optimization-based control frameworks. However, STL…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Tianhao Wu , Yiwei Lyu

Modeling and analysis of timing constraints is crucial in automotive systems. EAST-ADL is a domain specific architectural language dedicated to safety-critical automotive embedded system design. In most cases, a bounded number of violations…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Eun-Young Kang , Li Huang

We introduce SAW, a tool for safety analysis of weakly-hard systems, in which traditional hard timing constraints are relaxed to allow bounded deadline misses for improving design flexibility and runtime resiliency. Safety verification is a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Chao Huang , Kai-Chieh Chang , Chung-Wei Lin , Qi Zhu

Engineering processes for safety-critical systems describe the steps and sequence that guide engineers from refining user requirements into executable code, as well as producing the artifacts, traces, and evidence that the resulting system…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Cosmina-Cristina Ratiu , Christoph Mayr-Dorn , Alexander Egyed

In this paper, the CONFIG algorithm, a simple and provably efficient constrained global optimization algorithm, is applied to optimize the closed-loop control performance of an unknown system with unmodeled constraints. Existing Gaussian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Wenjie Xu , Yuning Jiang , Bratislav Svetozarevic , Colin N. Jones

Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) has focused on test-time scaling to improve reasoning via increased inference computation, but often at the cost of efficiency. We revisit test-time behavior and uncover a simple yet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zhen Yang , Mingyang Zhang , Feng Chen , Ganggui Ding , Liang Hou , Xin Tao , Ying-Cong Chen

In this paper, we consider teams of robots with heterogeneous skills (e.g., sensing and manipulation) tasked with collaborative missions described by Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formulas. These LTL-encoded tasks require robots to apply…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Samarth Kalluraya , Beichen Zhou , Yiannis Kantaros

A renewal system divides the slotted timeline into back to back time periods called renewal frames. At the beginning of each frame, it chooses a policy from a set of options for that frame. The policy determines the duration of the frame,…

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