Conformal prediction for stl runtime verification

L Lindemann, X Qin, JV Deshmukh… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We are interested in predicting failures of cyber-physical systems during their operation.
Particularly, we consider stochastic systems and signal temporal logic specifications, and we …

In-distribution barrier functions: Self-supervised policy filters that avoid out-of-distribution states

F Castaneda, H Nishimura… - … for Dynamics and …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Learning-based control approaches have shown great promise in performing complex tasks
directly from high-dimensional perception data for real robotic systems. Nonetheless, the …

Formal verification and control with conformal prediction

L Lindemann, Y Zhao, X Yu, GJ Pappas… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this survey, we design formal verification and control algorithms for autonomous systems
with practical safety guarantees using conformal prediction (CP), a statistical tool for …

Chordal sparsity for lipschitz constant estimation of deep neural networks

A Xue, L Lindemann, A Robey… - 2022 IEEE 61st …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computing Lipschitz constants of neural networks allows for robustness guarantees in
image classification, safety in controller design, and generalization beyond the training data …

Safety filters for black-box dynamical systems by learning discriminating hyperplanes

W Lavanakul, J Choi, K Sreenath… - 6th Annual Learning …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
Learning-based approaches are emerging as an effective approach for safety filters for black-
box dynamical systems. Existing methods have relied on certificate functions like Control …

Enhancing Safety in Learning from Demonstration Algorithms via Control Barrier Function Shielding

Y Yang, L Chen, Z Zaidi, S van Waveren… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a powerful method for non-roboticists end-users to
teach robots new tasks, enabling them to customize the robot behavior. However, modern …

A semi-algebraic framework for verification and synthesis of control barrier functions

A Clark - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safety is a critical property for control systems in medicine, transportation, manufacturing,
and other applications, and can be defined as ensuring positive invariance of a predefined …

Safe perception-based control under stochastic sensor uncertainty using conformal prediction

S Yang, GJ Pappas, R Mangharam… - 2023 62nd IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider perception-based control using state estimates that are obtained from high-
dimensional sensor measurements via learning-enabled perception maps. However, these …

Risk of stochastic systems for temporal logic specifications

L Lindemann, L Jiang, N Matni, GJ Pappas - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The wide availability of data coupled with the computational advances in artificial
intelligence and machine learning promise to enable many future technologies such as …

Verification and synthesis of robust control barrier functions: Multilevel polynomial optimization and semidefinite relaxation

S Kang, Y Chen, H Yang… - 2023 62nd IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study the problem of verification and synthesis of robust control barrier functions (CBF)
for control-affine polynomial systems with bounded additive uncertainty and convex …