Decision-making under uncertainty: beyond probabilities: Challenges and perspectives

T Badings, TD Simão, M Suilen, N Jansen - International Journal on …, 2023 - Springer
This position paper reflects on the state-of-the-art in decision-making under uncertainty. A
classical assumption is that probabilities can sufficiently capture all uncertainty in a system …

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 …

Robust control for dynamical systems with non-gaussian noise via formal abstractions

T Badings, L Romao, A Abate, D Parker… - Journal of Artificial …, 2023 - jair.org
Controllers for dynamical systems that operate in safety-critical settings must account for
stochastic disturbances. Such disturbances are often modeled as process noise in a …

Probabilities are not enough: Formal controller synthesis for stochastic dynamical models with epistemic uncertainty

T Badings, L Romao, A Abate, N Jansen - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Capturing uncertainty in models of complex dynamical systems is crucial to designing safe
controllers. Stochastic noise causes aleatoric uncertainty, whereas imprecise knowledge of …

[HTML][HTML] Data-driven abstraction-based control synthesis

M Kazemi, R Majumdar, M Salamati, S Soudjani… - Nonlinear Analysis …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper studies formal synthesis of controllers for continuous-space systems with
unknown dynamics to satisfy requirements expressed as linear temporal logic formulas …

Compositional policy learning in stochastic control systems with formal guarantees

Đ Žikelić, M Lechner, A Verma… - Advances in …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Reinforcement learning has shown promising results in learning neural network policies for
complicated control tasks. However, the lack of formal guarantees about the behavior of …

Constructing MDP abstractions using data with formal guarantees

A Lavaei, S Soudjani, E Frazzoli… - IEEE Control Systems …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter is concerned with a data-driven technique for constructing finite Markov decision
processes (MDPs) as finite abstractions of discrete-time stochastic control systems with …

Data-driven abstractions for verification of linear systems

R Coppola, A Peruffo, M Mazo - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce a novel approach for the construction of symbolic abstractions-simpler, finite-
state models-which mimic the behaviour of a system of interest, and are commonly utilized to …

Formal verification of unknown dynamical systems via gaussian process regression

J Skovbekk, L Laurenti, E Frew… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Leveraging autonomous systems in safety-critical scenarios requires verifying their
behaviors in the presence of uncertainties and black-box components that influence the …

Data-driven abstractions for verification of deterministic systems

R Coppola, A Peruffo, M Mazo Jr - arxiv preprint arxiv:2211.01793, 2022 - arxiv.org
A common technique to verify complex logic specifications for dynamical systems is the
construction of symbolic abstractions: simpler, finite-state models whose behaviour mimics …