Efficient strategy synthesis for switched stochastic systems with distributional uncertainty

I Gracia, D Boskos, M Lahijanian, L Laurenti… - Nonlinear Analysis …, 2025 - Elsevier
We introduce a framework for the control of discrete-time switched stochastic systems with
uncertain distributions. In particular, we consider stochastic dynamics with additive noise …

Abstraction-based planning for uncertainty-aware legged navigation

J Jiang, S Coogan, Y Zhao - IEEE Open Journal of Control …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article addresses the problem of temporal-logic-based planning for bipedal robots in
uncertain environments. We first propose an Interval Markov Decision Process abstraction of …

Unifying Safety Approaches for Stochastic Systems: From Barrier Functions to Uncertain Abstractions via Dynamic Programming

L Laurenti, M Lahijanian - arxiv preprint arxiv:2310.01802, 2023 - arxiv.org
Providing safety guarantees for stochastic dynamical systems has become a central problem
in many fields, including control theory, machine learning, and robotics. Existing methods …

Data-Driven Distributionally Robust Safety Verification Using Barrier Certificates and Conditional Mean Embeddings

O Schön, Z Zhong, S Soudjani - arxiv preprint arxiv:2403.10497, 2024 - arxiv.org
Algorithmic verification of realistic systems to satisfy safety and other temporal requirements
has suffered from poor scalability of the employed formal approaches. To design systems …

Inner approximations of stochastic programs for data-driven stochastic barrier function design

FB Mathiesen, L Romao, SC Calvert… - 2023 62nd IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a new framework to compute finite-horizon safety guarantees for
discrete-time piece-wise affine systems with stochastic noise of unknown distributions. The …

Structured ambiguity sets for distributionally robust optimization

LM Chaouach, T Oomen, D Boskos - arxiv preprint arxiv:2310.20657, 2023 - arxiv.org
Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) incorporates robustness against uncertainty in the
specification of probabilistic models. This paper focuses on mitigating the curse of …

Data-Driven Strategy Synthesis for Stochastic Systems with Unknown Nonlinear Disturbances

I Gracia, D Boskos, L Laurenti, M Lahijanian - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we introduce a data-driven framework for synthesis of provably-correct
controllers for general nonlinear switched systems under complex specifications. The focus …

A data-driven approach for safety quantification of non-linear stochastic systems with unknown additive noise distribution

FB Mathiesen, L Romao, SC Calvert, L Laurenti… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we present a novel data-driven approach to quantify safety for non-linear,
discrete-time stochastic systems with unknown noise distribution. We define safety as the …

Temporal Logic Control for Nonlinear Stochastic Systems Under Unknown Disturbances

I Gracia, L Laurenti, M Mazo Jr, A Abate… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we present a novel framework to synthesize robust strategies for discrete-time
nonlinear systems with random disturbances that are unknown, against temporal logic …