Formal synthesis of controllers for safety-critical autonomous systems: Developments and challenges
In recent years, formal methods have been extensively used in the design of autonomous
systems. By employing mathematically rigorous techniques, formal methods can provide …
systems. By employing mathematically rigorous techniques, formal methods can provide …
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 …
evolving in a known environment. The robots should satisfy a global task for the whole team …
Non-existence of Upper Bound to Inferencing Level in Decentralized Discrete Event Control
S Takai, R Kumar - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the authors' earlier work, the notion of inference-observability was introduced to
characterize the existence of decentralized supervisors that perform multi-level inferencing …
characterize the existence of decentralized supervisors that perform multi-level inferencing …
Privacy-preserving co-synthesis against sensor–actuator eavesdropping intruder
In this work, we investigate the problem of privacy-preserving supervisory control against an
external passive intruder via co-synthesis of a dynamic mask, an edit function, and a …
external passive intruder via co-synthesis of a dynamic mask, an edit function, and a …
Automatic generation of optimal reductions of distributions
L Lin, T Masopust, WM Wonham… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A reduction of a source distribution is a collection of smaller sized distributions that are
collectively equivalent to the source distribution with respect to the property of …
collectively equivalent to the source distribution with respect to the property of …
On coparanormality in distributed supervisory control of discrete‐event systems
Decomposition and localization of a supervisor are both reduction methods in distributed
supervisory control of discrete‐event systems. Decomposition is employed to reduce the …
supervisory control of discrete‐event systems. Decomposition is employed to reduce the …
[PDF][PDF] Combined top-down and bottom-up design of cooperative multi-robot systems
We propose a formal design framework for cooperative multi-robot systems through
combining a top-down mission planning with a bottom-up motion planning. In this work, it is …
combining a top-down mission planning with a bottom-up motion planning. In this work, it is …
Privacy-preserving supervisory control of discrete-event systems via co-synthesis of edit function and supervisor for opacity enforcement and requirement satisfaction
This paper investigates the problem of co-synthesis of edit function and supervisor for
opacity enforcement in the supervisory control of discrete-event systems (DES), assuming …
opacity enforcement in the supervisory control of discrete-event systems (DES), assuming …
Reduction of distributions and its applications
In this work, a notion of reduction of distributions is proposed as a technical tool for
improving the complexity of decomposability verification and supporting parallel verification …
improving the complexity of decomposability verification and supporting parallel verification …
Reduction of Distributions: Definitions, Properties, and Applications
In this work, a notion of reduction of distributions is proposed as a technical tool for
improving the complexity of decomposability verification and supporting parallel verification …
improving the complexity of decomposability verification and supporting parallel verification …