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 …

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 …

Ensuring confidentiality of cyber-physical systems using event-based cryptography

PM Lima, LK Carvalho, MV Moreira - Information Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
One of the most important challenges for the application of cyber-physical systems (CPS) in
smart industries is ensuring its security against cyber attacks. In this paper, we consider that …

Efficient avoidance of vulnerabilities in auto-completed smart contract code using vulnerability-constrained decoding

A Storhaug, J Li, T Hu - 2023 IEEE 34th International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Auto-completing code enables developers to speed up coding significantly. Recent
advances in transformer-based large language model (LLM) technologies have been …

Sensor deception attacks against security in supervisory control systems

J Yao, S Li, X Yin - Automatica, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the problem of synthesizing sensor deception attacks against
security in the context of supervisory control of discrete-event systems (DES). We consider a …

Signal temporal logic synthesis under Model Predictive Control: A low complexity approach

T Yang, Y Zou, S Li, X Yin, T Jia - Control Engineering Practice, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, we focus on the challenging problem of model predictive control (MPC) for
dynamics systems with high-level tasks formulated as signal temporal logic (STL). The state …

Data-driven safe controller synthesis for deterministic systems: A posteriori method with validation tests

Y Chen, C Shang, X Huang… - 2023 62nd IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we investigate the data-driven safe control synthesis problem for unknown
dynamic systems. We first formulate the safety synthesis problem as a robust convex …

Secure-by-construction synthesis for control systems

B Zhong, S Liu, M Caccamo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this note, we present the synthesis of secure-by-construction controllers that address
safety and security properties simultaneously in cyber-physical systems. Our focus is on …

Automatic synthesis of containerized industrial cyber-physical systems: A case study

A Biskupovic, M Torres, F Núñez - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Industrial cyber-physical systems (ICPSs) are widely regarded as the next generation
industrial control systems and as one of the core technologies of the ongoing fourth …

A unified framework for verification of observational properties for partially-observed discrete-event systems

J Zhao, S Li, X Yin - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we investigate property verification problems in partially-observed discrete-
event systems (DES). Particularly, we are interested in verifying observational properties that …