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 …

How safe am i given what i see? calibrated prediction of safety chances for image-controlled autonomy

Z Mao, C Sobolewski, I Ruchkin - 6th Annual Learning for …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
End-to-end learning has emerged as a major paradigm for developing autonomous
controllers. Unfortunately, with its performance and convenience comes an even greater …

[PDF][PDF] Signal temporal logic control synthesis among uncontrollable dynamic agents with conformal prediction

X Yu, Y Zhao, X Yin, L Lindemann - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - researchgate.net
The control of dynamical systems under temporal logic specifications among uncontrollable
dynamic agents is challenging due to the agents'a-priori unknown behavior. Existing works …

Safe control synthesis for hybrid systems through local control barrier functions

S Yang, M Black, G Fainekos, B Hoxha… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Control Barrier Functions (CBF) have provided a very versatile framework for the synthesis
of safe control architectures for a wide class of nonlinear dynamical systems. Typically, CBF …

Sensor-Based Distributionally Robust Control for Safe Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments

K Long, Y Yi, Z Dai, S Herbert, J Cortés… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We introduce a novel method for safe mobile robot navigation in dynamic, unknown
environments, utilizing onboard sensing to impose safety constraints without the need for …

Conformal Off-Policy Prediction for Multi-Agent Systems

T Kuipers, R Tumu, S Yang, M Kazemi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Off-Policy Prediction (OPP), ie, predicting the outcomes of a target policy using only data
collected under a nominal (behavioural) policy, is a paramount problem in data-driven …

Tackling performativity in discrete-time dynamical systems: An iterative refinement approach

H Zhang - 2023 - ideals.illinois.edu
In many real-world dynamical systems, obtaining precise prior knowledge about system
noise remains a challenge. This uncertainty complicates traditional control strategies, such …