Formal synthesis of controllers for safety-critical autonomous systems: Developments and challenges

X Yin, B Gao, X Yu - Annual Reviews in Control, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, formal methods have been extensively used in the design of autonomous
systems. By employing mathematically rigorous techniques, formal methods can provide …

Local observation based reactive temporal logic planning of human-robot systems

Z Zhou, S Wang, Z Chen, M Cai… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Human-robot collaboration plays an important role in intelligent manufacturing. However,
the main challenge is how the robot can make online reactive changes to the plan based on …

Vision-based reactive temporal logic motion planning for quadruped robots in unstructured dynamic environments

Z Zhou, Z Chen, M Cai, Z Li, Z Kan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Temporal logic-based motion planning has been extensively studied to address complex
robotic tasks. However, existing works primarily focus on static environments or assume the …

Policy optimization with linear temporal logic constraints

C Voloshin, H Le, S Chaudhuri… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We study the problem of policy optimization (PO) with linear temporal logic (LTL) constraints.
The language of LTL allows flexible description of tasks that may be unnatural to encode as …

Task-driven reinforcement learning with action primitives for long-horizon manipulation skills

H Wang, H Zhang, L Li, Z Kan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is an interesting open problem to enable robots to efficiently and effectively learn long-
horizon manipulation skills. Motivated to augment robot learning via more effective …

Certified reinforcement learning with logic guidance

H Hasanbeig, D Kroening, A Abate - Artificial Intelligence, 2023 - Elsevier
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a widely employed machine learning architecture that has
been applied to a variety of control problems. However, applications in safety-critical …

Fast task allocation of heterogeneous robots with temporal logic and inter-task constraints

L Li, Z Chen, H Wang, Z Kan - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work develops a fast task allocation framework for heterogeneous multi-robot systems
subject to both temporal logic and inter-task constraints. The considered inter-task …

Eventual discounting temporal logic counterfactual experience replay

C Voloshin, A Verma, Y Yue - International Conference on …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Linear temporal logic (LTL) offers a simplified way of specifying tasks for policy optimization
that may otherwise be difficult to describe with scalar reward functions. However, the …