Formal synthesis of Lyapunov neural networks

A Abate, D Ahmed, M Giacobbe… - IEEE Control Systems …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose an automatic and formally sound method for synthesising Lyapunov functions
for the asymptotic stability of autonomous non-linear systems. Traditional methods are either …

FOSSIL: a software tool for the formal synthesis of lyapunov functions and barrier certificates using neural networks

A Abate, D Ahmed, A Edwards, M Giacobbe… - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
This paper accompanies FOSSIL: a software tool for the synthesis of Lyapunov functions
and of barrier certificates (or functions) for dynamical systems modelled as differential …

Learning control lyapunov functions from counterexamples and demonstrations

H Ravanbakhsh, S Sankaranarayanan - Autonomous Robots, 2019 - Springer
We present a technique for learning control Lyapunov-like functions, which are used in turn
to synthesize controllers for nonlinear dynamical systems that can stabilize the system, or …

Robust adaptive control of robot manipulators using Bernstein polynomials as universal approximator

A Izadbakhsh… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents a robust adaptive controller for electrically driven robots using Bernstein
polynomials as universal approximator. The lumped uncertainties including unmodeled …

Review on set‐theoretic methods for safety verification and control of power system

Y Zhang, Y Li, K Tomsovic… - IET Energy Systems …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing penetration of renewable energy introduces significant uncertainty into power
systems. Traditional simulation‐based verification methods may not be applicable due to the …

Polynomial invariant generation for non-deterministic recursive programs

K Chatterjee, H Fu, AK Goharshady… - Proceedings of the 41st …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
We consider the classical problem of invariant generation for programs with polynomial
assignments and focus on synthesizing invariants that are a conjunction of strict polynomial …

Hybrid controller for wind turbine generators to ensure adequate frequency response in power networks

Y Zhang, K Tomsovic, SM Djouadi… - IEEE Journal on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Converter-interfaced power sources (CIPS) are hybrid control systems as they may switch
between multiple operating modes. Due to increasing penetration, the hybrid behavior of …

Validating numerical semidefinite programming solvers for polynomial invariants

P Roux, YL Voronin, S Sankaranarayanan - Formal Methods in System …, 2018 - Springer
Semidefinite programming (SDP) solvers are increasingly used as primitives in many
program verification tasks to synthesize and verify polynomial invariants for a variety of …

Semidefinite approximations of reachable sets for discrete-time polynomial systems

V Magron, PL Garoche, D Henrion, X Thirioux - SIAM Journal on Control and …, 2019 - SIAM
We consider the problem of approximating the reachable set of a discrete-time polynomial
system from a semialgebraic set of initial conditions under general semialgebraic set …

A linear programming relaxation based approach for generating barrier certificates of hybrid systems

Z Yang, C Huang, X Chen, W Lin, Z Liu - FM 2016: Formal Methods: 21st …, 2016 - Springer
This paper presents a linear programming (LP) relaxation based approach for generating
polynomial barrier certificates for safety verification of semi-algebraic hybrid systems. The …