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 …

Formal methods for control synthesis: An optimization perspective

C Belta, S Sadraddini - Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
In control theory, complicated dynamics such as systems of (nonlinear) differential equations
are controlled mostly to achieve stability. This fundamental property, which can be with …

Control barrier functions for signal temporal logic tasks

L Lindemann, DV Dimarogonas - IEEE control systems letters, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The need for computationally-efficient control methods of dynamical systems under temporal
logic tasks has recently become more apparent. Existing methods are computationally …

Efficient representation and approximation of model predictive control laws via deep learning

B Karg, S Lucia - IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We show that artificial neural networks with rectifier units as activation functions can exactly
represent the piecewise affine function that results from the formulation of model predictive …

Multi-agent motion planning from signal temporal logic specifications

D Sun, J Chen, S Mitra, C Fan - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We tackle the challenging problem of multi-agent cooperative motion planning for complex
tasks described using signal temporal logic (STL), where robots can have nonlinear and …

Reactive synthesis from signal temporal logic specifications

V Raman, A Donzé, D Sadigh, RM Murray… - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
We present a counterexample-guided inductive synthesis approach to controller synthesis
for cyber-physical systems subject to signal temporal logic (STL) specifications, operating in …

Q-learning for robust satisfaction of signal temporal logic specifications

D Aksaray, A Jones, Z Kong… - 2016 IEEE 55th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problem of learning optimal policies for satisfying signal temporal
logic (STL) specifications by agents with unknown stochastic dynamics. The system is …

Robust temporal logic model predictive control

S Sadraddini, C Belta - 2015 53rd Annual Allerton Conference …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Control synthesis from temporal logic specifications has gained popularity in recent years. In
this paper, we use a model predictive approach to control discrete time linear systems with …

Mixed-integer programming for signal temporal logic with fewer binary variables

V Kurtz, H Lin - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Signal Temporal Logic (STL) provides a convenient way of encoding complex control
objectives for robotic and cyber-physical systems. The state-of-the-art in trajectory synthesis …

Backpropagation through signal temporal logic specifications: Infusing logical structure into gradient-based methods

K Leung, N Aréchiga, M Pavone - The International Journal …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper presents a technique, named STLCG, to compute the quantitative semantics of
Signal Temporal Logic (STL) formulas using computation graphs. STLCG provides a …