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 …

Control of cyber-physical-systems with logic specifications: A formal methods approach

G Pola, MD Di Benedetto - Annual Reviews in Control, 2019 - Elsevier
There is a growing interest in Industry and Academia in large scale composite systems
where a number of physical processes are interfaced with intelligent units that control them …

Survey on automated symbolic verification and its application for synthesising cyber‐physical systems

LC Cordeiro, EB de Lima Filho… - IET Cyber‐Physical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Dependency on the correct operation of embedded systems is rapidly growing, mainly due
to their wide range of applications. Their structures are becoming more complex and …

From dissipativity theory to compositional synthesis of large-scale stochastic switched systems

A Lavaei, M Zamani - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work is concerned with a compositional technique for the construction of finite
abstractions (aka, finite Markov decision processes (MDPs)) for networks of discrete-time …

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 …

Symbolic models for stochastic switched systems: A discretization and a discretization-free approach

M Zamani, A Abate, A Girard - Automatica, 2015 - Elsevier
Stochastic switched systems are a relevant class of stochastic hybrid systems with
probabilistic evolution over a continuous domain and control-dependent discrete dynamics …

Compositional abstraction-based synthesis for networks of stochastic switched systems

A Lavaei, S Soudjani, M Zamani - Automatica, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we provide a compositional approach for constructing finite abstractions (aka
finite Markov decision processes (MDPs)) of interconnected discrete-time stochastic …

Compositional abstraction-based synthesis for continuous-time stochastic hybrid systems

A Nejati, S Soudjani, M Zamani - European Journal of Control, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a compositional framework for the construction of discrete-time
finite abstractions, also known as finite Markov decision processes, from continuous-time …

Compositional construction of infinite abstractions for networks of stochastic control systems

A Lavaei, S Soudjani, M Zamani - Automatica, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper is concerned with a compositional approach for constructing infinite abstractions
of interconnected discrete-time stochastic control systems. The proposed approach uses the …

Compositional (in) finite abstractions for large-scale interconnected stochastic systems

A Lavaei, S Soudjani, M Zamani - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article is concerned with a compositional approach for constructing both infinite
(reduced-order models) and finite abstractions [aka finite Markov decision processes …