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 …

Formal controller synthesis for continuous-space MDPs via model-free reinforcement learning

A Lavaei, F Somenzi, S Soudjani… - 2020 ACM/IEEE 11th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel reinforcement learning scheme to synthesize policies for continuous-space Markov
decision processes (MDPs) is proposed. This scheme enables one to apply model-free, off …

Compositional abstraction-based synthesis for networks of stochastic switched systems

A Lavaei, S Soudjani, M Zamani - Automatica, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we provide a compositional approach for constructing finite abstractions (aka
finite Markov decision processes (MDPs)) of interconnected discrete-time stochastic …

Robust dynamic programming for temporal logic control of stochastic systems

S Haesaert, S Soudjani - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Discrete-time stochastic systems are an essential modeling tool for many engineering
systems. We consider stochastic control systems that are evolving over continuous spaces …

Translating omega-regular specifications to average objectives for model-free reinforcement learning

M Kazemi, M Perez, F Somenzi, S Soudjani… - Proc. of the 21st …, 2022 - par.nsf.gov
Recent success in reinforcement learning (RL) has brought renewed attention to the design
of reward functions by which agent behavior is reinforced or deterred. Manually designing …

Formal policy synthesis for continuous-state systems via reinforcement learning

M Kazemi, S Soudjani - … Methods: 16th International Conference, IFM 2020 …, 2020 - Springer
This paper studies satisfaction of temporal properties on unknown stochastic processes that
have continuous state spaces. We show how reinforcement learning (RL) can be applied for …

SySCoRe: Synthesis via stochastic coupling relations

B Van Huijgevoort, O Schön, S Soudjani… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We present SySCoRe, a MATLAB toolbox that synthesizes controllers for stochastic
continuous-state systems to satisfy temporal logic specifications. Starting from a system …

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 …

Data-driven memory-dependent abstractions of dynamical systems

A Banse, L Romao, A Abate… - Learning for Dynamics …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
We propose a sample-based, sequential method to abstract a (potentially black-box)
dynamical system with a sequence of memory-dependent Markov chains of increasing size …