Data-driven safety verification of stochastic systems via barrier certificates: A wait-and-judge approach

A Salamati, M Zamani - Learning for Dynamics and Control …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
We provide a data-driven approach equipped with a formal guarantee for verifying the safety
of stochastic systems with unknown dynamics. First, using a notion of barrier certificates, the …

Safe autonomy under perception uncertainty using chance-constrained temporal logic

S Jha, V Raman, D Sadigh, SA Seshia - Journal of Automated Reasoning, 2018 - Springer
Autonomous vehicles have found wide-ranging adoption in aerospace, terrestrial as well as
marine use. These systems often operate in uncertain environments and in the presence of …

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 …

Online and compositional learning of controllers with application to floor heating

KG Larsen, M Mikučionis, M Muniz, J Srba… - … 2016, Held as Part of the …, 2016 - Springer
Controller synthesis for stochastic hybrid switched systems, like eg a floor heating system in
a house, is a complex computational task that cannot be solved by an exhaustive search …

Augmented finite transition systems as abstractions for control synthesis

P Nilsson, N Ozay, J Liu - Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, 2017 - Springer
This work is motivated by the problem of synthesizing switching protocols for continuous
switched systems described by differential or difference equations, in a way that guarantees …

Synthesizing permissive winning strategy templates for parity games

A Anand, SP Nayak, AK Schmuck - International Conference on Computer …, 2023 - Springer
We present a novel method to compute permissive winning strategies in two-player games
over finite graphs with ω-regular winning conditions. Given a game graph G and a parity …

[PDF][PDF] Data-driven verification and synthesis of stochastic systems through barrier certificates

A Salamati, A Lavaei, S Soudjani… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - researchgate.net
In this work, we study verification and synthesis problems for safety specifications over
unknown discrete-time stochastic systems. When a model of the system is available, barrier …

SOS: safe, optimal and small strategies for hybrid Markov decision processes

P Ashok, J Křetínský, KG Larsen, A Le Coënt… - … Evaluation of Systems …, 2019 - Springer
For hybrid Markov decision processes, Stratego can compute strategies that are safe for a
given safety property and (in the limit) optimal for a given cost function. Unfortunately, these …

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 …

Symbolic qualitative control for stochastic systems via finite parity games

R Majumdar, K Mallik, AK Schmuck, S Soudjani - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2021 - Elsevier
We consider the controller synthesis problem for stochastic, continuous-state, nonlinear
systems against ω-regular specifications. We synthesize a symbolic controller that ensures …