Secure-by-construction synthesis of cyber-physical systems

S Liu, A Trivedi, X Yin, M Zamani - Annual Reviews in Control, 2022 - Elsevier
Correct-by-construction synthesis is a cornerstone of the confluence of formal methods and
control theory towards designing safety-critical systems. Instead of following the time-tested …

Safe control with learned certificates: A survey of neural lyapunov, barrier, and contraction methods for robotics and control

C Dawson, S Gao, C Fan - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Learning-enabled control systems have demonstrated impressive empirical performance on
challenging control problems in robotics, but this performance comes at the cost of reduced …

Safe nonlinear control using robust neural lyapunov-barrier functions

C Dawson, Z Qin, S Gao, C Fan - Conference on Robot …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Safety and stability are common requirements for robotic control systems; however,
designing safe, stable controllers remains difficult for nonlinear and uncertain models. We …

Safe control with learned certificates: A survey of neural lyapunov, barrier, and contraction methods

C Dawson, S Gao, C Fan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.11762, 2022 - arxiv.org
Learning-enabled control systems have demonstrated impressive empirical performance on
challenging control problems in robotics, but this performance comes at the cost of reduced …

FOSSIL: a software tool for the formal synthesis of lyapunov functions and barrier certificates using neural networks

A Abate, D Ahmed, A Edwards, M Giacobbe… - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
This paper accompanies FOSSIL: a software tool for the synthesis of Lyapunov functions
and of barrier certificates (or functions) for dynamical systems modelled as differential …

Exact verification of relu neural control barrier functions

H Zhang, J Wu, Y Vorobeychik… - Advances in neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) are a popular approach for safe control of
nonlinear systems. In CBF-based control, the desired safety properties of the system are …

Learning lyapunov functions for hybrid systems

S Chen, M Fazlyab, M Morari, GJ Pappas… - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We propose a sampling-based approach to learn Lyapunov functions for a class of discrete-
time autonomous hybrid systems that admit a mixed-integer representation. Such systems …

Physics-informed machine learning for modeling and control of dynamical systems

TX Nghiem, J Drgoňa, C Jones, Z Nagy… - 2023 American …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) is a set of methods and tools that systematically
integrate machine learning (ML) algorithms with physical constraints and abstract …

Learning safe, generalizable perception-based hybrid control with certificates

C Dawson, B Lowenkamp, D Goff… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many robotic tasks require high-dimensional sensors such as cameras and Lidar to navigate
complex environments, but developing certifiably safe feedback controllers around these …

Compositional policy learning in stochastic control systems with formal guarantees

Đ Žikelić, M Lechner, A Verma… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Reinforcement learning has shown promising results in learning neural network policies for
complicated control tasks. However, the lack of formal guarantees about the behavior of …