Synthesis for robots: Guarantees and feedback for robot behavior

H Kress-Gazit, M Lahijanian… - Annual Review of Control …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Robot control for tasks such as moving around obstacles or gras** objects has advanced
significantly in the last few decades. However, controlling robots to perform complex tasks is …

Environment-independent task specifications via GLTL

ML Littman, U Topcu, J Fu, C Isbell, M Wen… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
We propose a new task-specification language for Markov decision processes that is
designed to be an improvement over reward functions by being environment independent …

Robust control of uncertain Markov decision processes with temporal logic specifications

EM Wolff, U Topcu, RM Murray - 2012 IEEE 51st IEEE …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a method for designing a robust control policy for an uncertain system subject to
temporal logic specifications. The system is modeled as a finite Markov Decision Process …

Reinforcement learning with probabilistic guarantees for autonomous driving

M Bouton, J Karlsson, A Nakhaei, K Fujimura… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Designing reliable decision strategies for autonomous urban driving is challenging.
Reinforcement learning (RL) has been used to automatically derive suitable behavior in …

Temporal logic motion planning and control with probabilistic satisfaction guarantees

M Lahijanian, SB Andersson… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We describe a computational framework for automatic deployment of a robot with sensor
and actuator noise from a temporal logic specification over a set of properties that are …

Polynomial-time verification of PCTL properties of MDPs with convex uncertainties

A Puggelli, W Li, AL Sangiovanni-Vincentelli… - … Aided Verification: 25th …, 2013 - Springer
We address the problem of verifying Probabilistic Computation Tree Logic (PCTL) properties
of Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) whose state transition probabilities are only known to …

Point-based methods for model checking in partially observable Markov decision processes

M Bouton, J Tumova, MJ Kochenderfer - … of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2020 - aaai.org
Autonomous systems are often required to operate in partially observable environments.
They must reliably execute a specified objective even with incomplete information about the …

A survey of motion and task planning techniques for unmanned multicopter systems

M Lan, S Lai, TH Lee, BM Chen - Unmanned Systems, 2021 - World Scientific
Unmanned aerial systems provide many applications with the ability to perform flying tasks
autonomously, and hence have received significant research and commercial attention in …

Specification revision for Markov decision processes with optimal trade-off

M Lahijanian, M Kwiatkowska - 2016 IEEE 55th Conference on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optimal control policy synthesis for probabilistic systems from high-level specifications is
increasingly often studied. One major question that is commonly faced, however, is what to …

Shielded deep reinforcement learning for complex spacecraft tasking

R Reed, H Schaub, M Lahijanian - 2024 American Control …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous spacecraft control via Shielded Deep Reinforcement Learning (SDRL) has
become a rapidly growing research area. However, the construction of shields and the …