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 …

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 …

Automated verification and synthesis of stochastic hybrid systems: A survey

A Lavaei, S Soudjani, A Abate, M Zamani - Automatica, 2022 - Elsevier
Stochastic hybrid systems have received significant attentions as a relevant modeling
framework describing many systems, from engineering to the life sciences: they enable the …

Formal synthesis of stochastic systems via control barrier certificates

P Jagtap, S Soudjani, M Zamani - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article focuses on synthesizing control policies for discrete-time stochastic control
systems together with a lower bound on the probability that the systems satisfy the complex …

Control of multi-agent systems with finite time control barrier certificates and temporal logic

M Srinivasan, S Coogan… - 2018 IEEE Conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a method to synthesize controllers using finite time convergence control barrier
functions guided by linear temporal logic specifications for continuous time multi-agent …

Control of mobile robots using barrier functions under temporal logic specifications

M Srinivasan, S Coogan - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we propose a framework for the control of mobile robots subject to temporal
logic specifications using barrier functions. Complex task specifications can be conveniently …

Compositional construction of control barrier functions for interconnected control systems

P Jagtap, A Swikir, M Zamani - … of the 23rd International Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we provide a compositional framework for synthesizing hybrid controllers for
interconnected discrete-time control systems enforcing specifications expressed by co-Büchi …

Temporal logic verification of stochastic systems using barrier certificates

P Jagtap, S Soudjani, M Zamani - International Symposium on Automated …, 2018 - Springer
This paper presents a methodology for temporal logic verification of discrete-time stochastic
systems. Our goal is to find a lower bound on the probability that a complex temporal …

Compositional synthesis of control barrier certificates for networks of stochastic systems against ω-regular specifications

M Anand, A Lavaei, M Zamani - Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper is concerned with a compositional scheme for the construction of control barrier
certificates for interconnected discrete-time stochastic systems. The main objective is to …

Closure certificates

V Murali, A Trivedi, M Zamani - … of the 27th ACM International Conference …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
A barrier certificate, defined over the states of a dynamical system, is a real-valued function
whose zero level set characterizes an inductively verifiable state invariant separating …