Control of cyber-physical-systems with logic specifications: A formal methods approach

G Pola, MD Di Benedetto - Annual Reviews in Control, 2019 - Elsevier
There is a growing interest in Industry and Academia in large scale composite systems
where a number of physical processes are interfaced with intelligent units that control them …

Design of symbolic controllers for networked control systems

A Borri, G Pola, MD Di Benedetto - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Networked control systems (NCSs) are distributed systems where plants, sensors, actuators,
and controllers communicate over shared networks. Nonideal behaviors of the …

Decentralized supervisory control of networks of nonlinear control systems

G Pola, P Pepe, MD Di Benedetto - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose decentralized control of networks of discrete-time nonlinear control
systems, enforcing complex specifications expressed in terms of regular languages, within …

Symbolic observer-based controller for uncertain nonlinear systems

WA Apaza-Perez, A Girard… - IEEE Control …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Symbolic control is an approach to the control of continuous or hybrid systems with
specifications expressed in a logic form. This approach is based on the use of symbolic …

Symbolic abstractions of networked control systems

M Zamani, M Mazo, M Khaled… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The last decade has witnessed significant attention on networked control systems (NCSs)
due to their ubiquitous presence in industrial applications, and in the particular case of …

Symbolic control design of nonlinear systems with outputs

G Pola, MD Di Benedetto, A Borri - Automatica, 2019 - Elsevier
Formal methods have been recently used as the basis of a systematic framework to address
control design of continuous or hybrid systems with specifications expressed in a logic form …

Finite abstractions of networked control systems

M Zamani, M Mazo, A Abate - 53rd IEEE Conference on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In networked control systems (NCS), the communication between sensors, controllers, and
actuators is supported by a shared communication channel that is subject to variable …

Decentralized symbolic control of interconnected systems with application to vehicle platooning

A Borri, DV Dimarogonas, KH Johansson… - IFAC Proceedings …, 2013 - Elsevier
This work aims at extending some concepts of symbolic control design to decentralized
control structures, with an approximate simulation approach. Symbolic models and …

Approximate supervisory control of nonlinear systems with outputs

G Pola, MD Di Benedetto - 2017 IEEE 56th Annual Conference …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Existing results concerning control design of purely continuous or hybrid systems with
complex logic-based specifications assume full information of the state, or of its quantization …

[PDF][PDF] Symbolic control design of nonlinear networked control systems

A Borri, G Pola, MD Di Benedetto - arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.0237, 2014 - researchgate.net
Abstract Networked Control Systems (NCS) are distributed systems where plants, sensors,
actuators and controllers communicate over shared networks. Non-ideal behaviors of the …