Synthesis for robots: Guarantees and feedback for robot behavior

H Kress-Gazit, M Lahijanian… - Annual Review of Control …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Robot control for tasks such as moving around obstacles or grasping objects has advanced
significantly in the last few decades. However, controlling robots to perform complex tasks is …

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 …

A learning based approach to control synthesis of markov decision processes for linear temporal logic specifications

D Sadigh, ES Kim, S Coogan… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose to synthesize a control policy for a Markov decision process (MDP) such that the
resulting traces of the MDP satisfy a linear temporal logic (LTL) property. We construct a …

Probably approximately correct MDP learning and control with temporal logic constraints

J Fu, U Topcu - arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.7073, 2014 - arxiv.org
We consider synthesis of control policies that maximize the probability of satisfying given
temporal logic specifications in unknown, stochastic environments. We model the interaction …

Robust control of uncertain Markov decision processes with temporal logic specifications

EM Wolff, U Topcu, RM Murray - 2012 IEEE 51st IEEE …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a method for designing a robust control policy for an uncertain system subject to
temporal logic specifications. The system is modeled as a finite Markov Decision Process …

Symbolic control of stochastic systems via approximately bisimilar finite abstractions

M Zamani, PM Esfahani, R Majumdar… - … on Automatic Control, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Symbolic approaches for control design construct finite-state abstract models that are related
to the original systems, then use techniques from finite-state synthesis to compute controllers …

Formal verification and synthesis for discrete-time stochastic systems

M Lahijanian, SB Andersson… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Formal methods are increasingly being used for control and verification of dynamic systems
against complex specifications. In general, these methods rely on a relatively simple system …

Computational methods for stochastic control with metric interval temporal logic specifications

J Fu, U Topcu - 2015 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies an optimal control problem for continuous-time stochastic systems
subject to objectives specified in a subclass of metric interval temporal logic specifications, a …

Approximately bisimilar symbolic models for randomly switched stochastic systems

M Zamani, A Abate - Systems & Control Letters, 2014 - Elsevier
In the past few years there has been a growing interest in the use of symbolic models for
control systems. The main reason is the possibility to leverage algorithmic techniques over …

Approximations of stochastic hybrid systems: A compositional approach

M Zamani, M Rungger… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we propose a compositional framework for the construction of approximations
of the interconnection of a class of stochastic hybrid systems. As special cases, this class of …