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 …

Probabilities are not enough: Formal controller synthesis for stochastic dynamical models with epistemic uncertainty

T Badings, L Romao, A Abate, N Jansen - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Capturing uncertainty in models of complex dynamical systems is crucial to designing safe
controllers. Stochastic noise causes aleatoric uncertainty, whereas imprecise knowledge of …

Formal verification of unknown dynamical systems via Gaussian process regression

J Skovbekk, L Laurenti, E Frew… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Leveraging autonomous systems in safety-critical scenarios requires verifying their
behaviors in the presence of uncertainties and black-box components that influence the …

Data-driven abstractions for verification of linear systems

R Coppola, A Peruffo, M Mazo - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce a novel approach for the construction of symbolic abstractions-simpler, finite-
state models-which mimic the behaviour of a system of interest, and are commonly utilized to …

Sampling Performance of Periodic Event-Triggered Control Systems: a Data-driven Approach

A Peruffo, M Mazo - IEEE Transactions on Control of Network …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We employ the scenario optimisation theory to compute a traffic abstraction, with probability
guarantees of correctness, of a PETC system with unknown dynamics from a finite number of …

Data-driven abstractions for verification of deterministic systems

R Coppola, A Peruffo, M Mazo Jr - arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.01793, 2022 - arxiv.org
A common technique to verify complex logic specifications for dynamical systems is the
construction of symbolic abstractions: simpler, finite-state models whose behaviour mimics …

Data-driven safe controller synthesis for deterministic systems: A posteriori method with validation tests

Y Chen, C Shang, X Huang… - 2023 62nd IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we investigate the data-driven safe control synthesis problem for unknown
dynamic systems. We first formulate the safety synthesis problem as a robust convex …

Data-Driven Abstractions for Control Systems

R Coppola, A Peruffo, M Mazo Jr - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.10668, 2024 - arxiv.org
At the intersection of dynamical systems, control theory, and formal methods lies the
construction of symbolic abstractions: these typically represent simpler, finite-state models …

Scenario Approach and Conformal Prediction for Verification of Unknown Systems via Data-Driven Abstractions

R Coppola, A Peruffo, L Lindemann… - 2024 European Control …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Verification of uncertain, complex dynamical systems is crucial in the modern day world. An
increasingly common method to verify complex logic specifications for dynamical systems …

Enhancing Data-Driven Stochastic Control via Bundled Interval MDP

R Coppola, A Peruffo, L Romao… - IEEE Control Systems …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The abstraction of dynamical systems is a powerful tool that enables the design of feedback
controllers using a correct-by-design framework. We investigate a novel scheme to obtain …