Safety certification for stochastic systems via neural barrier functions

FB Mathiesen, SC Calvert… - IEEE Control Systems …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Providing non-trivial certificates of safety for non-linear stochastic systems is an important
open problem. One promising solution to address this problem is the use of barrier functions …

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 …

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 …

Formal control synthesis for stochastic neural network dynamic models

S Adams, M Lahijanian… - IEEE Control Systems …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Neural networks (NNs) are emerging as powerful tools to represent the dynamics of control
systems with complicated physics or black-box components. Due to complexity of NNs …

Formal abstraction of general stochastic systems via noise partitioning

J Skovbekk, L Laurenti, E Frew… - IEEE Control Systems …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Verifying the performance of safety-critical, stochastic systems with complex noise
distributions is difficult. We introduce a general procedure for the finite abstraction of …

Safe learning for uncertainty-aware planning via interval MDP abstraction

J Jiang, Y Zhao, S Coogan - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study the problem of refining satisfiability bounds for partially-known stochastic systems
against planning specifications defined using syntactically co-safe Linear Temporal Logic …

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 …

Distributionally robust strategy synthesis for switched stochastic systems

I Gracia, D Boskos, L Laurenti, M Mazo Jr - Proceedings of the 26th ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We present a novel framework for formal control of uncertain discrete-time switched
stochastic systems against probabilistic reach-avoid specifications. In particular, we consider …

Interval markov decision processes with continuous action-spaces

G Delimpaltadakis, M Lahijanian, M Mazo Jr… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Interval Markov Decision Processes (IMDPs) are finite-state uncertain Markov models,
where the transition probabilities belong to intervals. Recently, there has been a surge of …

Promises of deep kernel learning for control synthesis

R Reed, L Laurenti, M Lahijanian - IEEE Control Systems …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep Kernel Learning (DKL) combines the representational power of neural networks with
the uncertainty quantification of Gaussian Processes. Hence, it is potentially a promising tool …