Formal synthesis of controllers for safety-critical autonomous systems: Developments and challenges

X Yin, B Gao, X Yu - Annual Reviews in Control, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, formal methods have been extensively used in the design of autonomous
systems. By employing mathematically rigorous techniques, formal methods can provide …

A comprehensive review on automatic mobile robots: applications, perception, communication and control

N Ding, C Peng, M Lin, C Wu - Journal of Circuits, Systems and …, 2022 - World Scientific
In recent years, automatic mobile robots (AMRs) have been widely concerned in various
fields, such as material handling, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) cruise, automatic factories …

Security-preserving multi-agent coordination for complex temporal logic tasks

X Yu, X Yin, S Li, Z Li - Control Engineering Practice, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the coordination of multiple agents for high-level tasks described by
linear temporal logics (LTL). The general purpose for multi-agent coordination is to …

Path planning of multi-robot systems with boolean specifications based on simulated annealing

W Shi, Z He, W Tang, W Liu, Z Ma - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we address the path planning of multi-robot systems (ie, a team of identical
mobile robots) with a global high-level specification that is given as a Boolean formula over …

Path planning for robotic teams based on LTL specifications and Petri net models

M Kloetzer, C Mahulea - Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, 2020 - Springer
This research proposes an automatic strategy for planning a team of identical robots
evolving in a known environment. The robots should satisfy a global task for the whole team …

Petri net based multi-robot task coordination from temporal logic specifications

B Lacerda, PU Lima - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2019 - Elsevier
We propose a methodology for enforcing a set of coordination rules onto a multi-robot
system, based on the use of Petri nets to model the team of robots, safe linear temporal logic …

[图书][B] Path planning of cooperative mobile robots using discrete event models

C Mahulea, M Kloetzer, R González - 2020 - books.google.com
Offers an integrated presentation for path planning and motion control of cooperative mobile
robots using discrete-event system principles Generating feasible paths or routes between a …

Optimal multi-robot path planning for cyclic tasks using Petri nets

P Lv, G Luo, Z Ma, S Li, X Yin - Control Engineering Practice, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we investigate the problem of optimal multi-robot path planning for cyclic tasks
represented by a particular type of linear-temporal logic (LTL) formulae. Specifically, the …

Path planning of multi-type robot systems with time windows based on timed colored Petri nets

Z He, R Zhang, N Ran, C Gu - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Mobile robots are extensively used to complete repetitive operations in industrial areas such
as intelligent transportation, logistics, and manufacturing systems. This paper addresses the …

Application of Hierarchical Colored Petri Nets for Technological Facilities' Maintenance Process Evaluation

SP Orlov, SV Susarev, RA Uchaikin - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The high reliability of modern engineering systems is achieved by performing predictive
maintenance. Mathematical models based on stochastic timed colored Petri nets are an …