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 …

Decentralized tube‐based model predictive control of uncertain nonlinear multiagent systems

A Nikou, DV Dimarogonas - International Journal of Robust …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This paper addresses the problem of decentralized tube‐based nonlinear model predictive
control (NMPC) for a general class of uncertain nonlinear continuous‐time multiagent …

Controller synthesis for multi-agent systems with intermittent communication. a metric temporal logic approach

Z Xu, FM Zegers, B Wu, W Dixon… - 2019 57th Annual …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper develops a controller synthesis approach for a multi-agent system (MAS) with
intermittent communication. We adopt a leader-follower scheme, where a mobile leader with …

Enforcing signal temporal logic specifications in multi-agent adversarial environments: A deep q-learning approach

D Muniraj, KG Vamvoudakis… - 2018 IEEE Conference …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work addresses the problem of learning optimal control policies for a multi-agent
system in an adversarial environment. Specifically, we focus on multi-agent systems where …

Integrated motion planning and control under metric interval temporal logic specifications

FS Barbosa, L Lindemann… - 2019 18th European …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes an approach that combines motion planning and hybrid feedback
control design in order to find and follow trajectories fulfilling a given complex mission …

Decentralized control of uncertain multi-agent systems with connectivity maintenance and collision avoidance

A Filotheou, A Nikou… - 2018 European Control …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problem of navigation control of a general class of uncertain
nonlinear multi-agent systems in a bounded workspace, which is subset of R n, with static …

Reconfigurable motion planning and control in obstacle cluttered environments under timed temporal tasks

CK Verginis, C Vrohidis, CP Bechlioulis… - … on Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work addresses the problem of robot navigation under timed temporal specifications in
workspaces cluttered with obstacles. We propose a hybrid control strategy that guarantees …

Scalable distributed controller synthesis for multi-agent systems using barrier functions and symbolic control

DS Sundarsingh, J Bhagiya, J Chatrola… - 2023 62nd IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a computationally efficient symbolic controller synthesis technique
for multi-agent systems. The paper focuses on synthesizing distributed controllers enforcing …

Reactive symbolic planning and control in dynamic adversarial environments

L Shamgah, TG Tadewos, AAR Newaz… - … on Automatic Control, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Satisfying both safety and reachability requirements in dynamic adversarial environments is
very challenging, particularly when little or no information about the dynamics and intentions …

Automata guided semi-decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning

C Sun, X Li, C Belta - 2020 American Control Conference …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the problem of deploying a multi-robot team to satisfy a syntactically
co-safe Truncated Linear Temporal Logic (scTLTL) task specification via multi-agent …