Augmented neural Lyapunov control

D Grande, A Peruffo, E Anderlini, G Salavasidis - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning-based methodologies have recently been adapted to solve control
problems. The Neural Lyapunov Control (NLC) method is one such example. This approach …

Formal Synthesis of Neural Barrier Certificates for Continuous Systems via Counterexample Guided Learning

H Zhao, N Qi, L Dehbi, X Zeng, Z Yang - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents a novel approach to safety verification based on neural barrier
certificates synthesis for continuous dynamical systems. We construct the synthesis …

Systematic synthesis of passive fault-tolerant augmented neural Lyapunov control laws for nonlinear systems

D Grande, D Fenucci, A Peruffo… - 2023 62nd IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Performance and closed-loop stability of control systems can be jeopardised by actuator
faults. Actuator redundancy in combination with appropriate control laws can increase the …

Fossil 2.0: Formal Certificate Synthesis for the Verification and Control of Dynamical Models

A Edwards, A Peruffo, A Abate - Proceedings of the 27th ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents Fossil 2.0, a new major release of a software tool for the synthesis of
certificates (eg, Lyapunov and barrier functions) for dynamical systems modelled as ordinary …

Synthesizing invariant barrier certificates via difference-of-convex programming

Q Wang, M Chen, B Xue, N Zhan, JP Katoen - International Conference on …, 2021 - Springer
A barrier certificate often serves as an inductive invariant that isolates an unsafe region from
the reachable set of states, and hence is widely used in proving safety of hybrid systems …

A General Verification Framework for Dynamical and Control Models via Certificate Synthesis

A Edwards, A Peruffo, A Abate - arxiv preprint arxiv:2309.06090, 2023 - arxiv.org
An emerging branch of control theory specialises in certificate learning, concerning the
specification of a desired (possibly complex) system behaviour for an autonomous or control …

K-inductive barrier certificates for stochastic systems

M Anand, V Murali, A Trivedi, M Zamani - Proceedings of the 25th ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Barrier certificates are inductive invariants that provide guarantees on the safety and
reachability behaviors of continuous dynamical systems. For stochastic dynamical systems …

Safety verification of dynamical systems via k-inductive barrier certificates

M Anand, V Murali, A Trivedi… - 2021 60th IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safety verification of dynamical systems via barrier certificates has recently gained
considerable attention. A barrier certificate is typically a real-valued function over states of …

Encoding inductive invariants as barrier certificates: Synthesis via difference-of-convex programming

Q Wang, M Chen, B Xue, N Zhan, JP Katoen - Information and Computation, 2022 - Elsevier
We present the invariant barrier-certificate condition that witnesses unbounded-time safety
of differential dynamical systems. The proposed condition is the weakest possible one to …

Deductive stability proofs for ordinary differential equations

YK Tan, A Platzer - International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for …, 2021 - Springer
Stability is required for real world controlled systems as it ensures that those systems can
tolerate small, real world perturbations around their desired operating states. This paper …