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eess.SY2021

Data-driven Safety Verification of Stochastic Systems via Barrier Certificates

Ali Salamati, Abolfazl Lavaei, Sadegh Soudjani +1

In this paper, we propose a data-driven approach to formally verify the safety of (potentially) unknown discrete-time continuous-space stochastic systems. The proposed framework is…

math.OC2021

A small-gain theory for infinite networks via infinite-dimensional gain operators

Christoph Kawan, Majid Zamani

In this paper, we develop a new approach to study gain operators built from the interconnection gains of infinite networks of dynamical systems. Our focus is on the construction of…

eess.SY2021★ 1 cited

Data-driven verification and synthesis of stochastic systems via barrier certificates

Ali Salamati, Abolfazl Lavaei, Sadegh Soudjani +1

In this work, we study verification and synthesis problems for safety specifications over unknown discrete-time stochastic systems. When a model of the system is available, barrier…

eess.SY2021

Formal Synthesis of Controllers for Uncertain Linear Systems against -Regular Properties: A Set-based Approach

Bingzhuo Zhong, Majid Zamani, Marco Caccamo

In this paper, we present how to synthesize controllers to enforce -regular properties over linear control systems affected by bounded disturbances. In particular, these control…

eess.SY2021

Compositional Construction of Abstractions for Infinite Networks of Switched Systems

Maryam Sharifi, Abdalla Swikir, Navid Noroozi +1

We construct compositional continuous approximations for an interconnection of infinitely many discrete-time switched systems. An approximation (known as abstraction) is itself a c…

eess.SY2021

Compositional Abstractions of Interconnected Discrete-Time Switched Systems

Abdalla Swikir, Majid Zamani

In this paper, we introduce a compositional method for the construction of finite abstractions of interconnected discrete-time switched systems. Particularly, we use a notion of so…

cs.LO2021

Verification of Switched Stochastic Systems via Barrier Certificates

Mahathi Anand, Pushpak Jagtap, Majid Zamani

The paper presents a methodology for temporal logic verification of continuous-time switched stochastic systems. Our goal is to find the lower bound on the probability that a compl…

eess.SY2021★ 4 cited

Compositional Verification of Initial-State Opacity for Switched Systems

Siyuan Liu, Abdalla Swikir, Majid Zamani

In this work, we propose a compositional framework for the verification of approximate initial-state opacity for networks of discrete-time switched systems. The proposed approach i…

eess.SY2021★ 5 cited

Compositional synthesis of almost maximally permissible safety controllers

Siyuan Liu, Majid Zamani

In this work, we present a compositional safety controller synthesis approach for the class of discrete-time linear control systems. Here, we leverage a state-of-the-art result on…

eess.SY2021

Synthesis of Partially Observed Jump-Diffusion Systems via Control Barrier Functions

Niloofar Jahanshahi, Pushpak Jagtap, Majid Zamani

In this paper, we study formal synthesis of control policies for partially observed jump-diffusion systems against complex logic specifications. Given a state estimator, we utilize…

eess.SY2021★ 5 cited

Sandboxing Controllers for Stochastic Cyber-Physical Systems

Bingzhuo Zhong, Majid Zamani, Marco Caccamo

Current cyber-physical systems (CPS) are expected to accomplish complex tasks. To achieve this goal, high performance, but unverified controllers (e.g. deep neural network, black-b…

math.OC2021★ 26 cited

Verification of Approximate Opacity via Barrier Certificates

Siyuan Liu, Majid Zamani

This paper is motivated by the increasing security concerns of cyber-physical systems. Here, we develop a discretization-free verification scheme targeting an information-flow secu…

eess.SY2021

Verification of Hyperproperties for Uncertain Dynamical Systems via Barrier Certificates

Mahathi Anand, Vishnu Murali, Ashutosh Trivedi +1

Hyperproperties are system properties that require quantification over multiple execution traces of a system. Hyperproperties can express several specifications of interest for cyb…

eess.SY2021★ 14 cited

Automata-based Controller Synthesis for Stochastic Systems: A Game Framework via Approximate Probabilistic Relations

Bingzhuo Zhong, Abolfazl Lavaei, Majid Zamani +1

In this work, we propose an abstraction and refinement methodology for the controller synthesis of discrete-time stochastic systems to enforce complex logical properties expressed…

math.OC2021

ISS small-gain criteria for infinite networks with linear gain functions

Andrii Mironchenko, Navid Noroozi, Christoph Kawan +1

This paper provides a Lyapunov-based small-gain theorem for input-to-state stability (ISS) of networks composed of infinitely many finite-dimensional systems. We model these networ…

eess.SY2021

Compositional Construction of Safety Controllers for Networks of Continuous-Space POMDPs

Niloofar Jahanshahi, Abolfazl Lavaei, Majid Zamani

In this paper, we propose a compositional framework for the synthesis of safety controllers for networks of partially-observed discrete-time stochastic control systems (a.k.a. cont…

math.OC2021★ 1 cited

A Lyapunov-based ISS small-gain theorem for infinite networks of nonlinear systems

Christoph Kawan, Andrii Mironchenko, Majid Zamani

In this paper, we show that an infinite network of input-to-state stable (ISS) subsystems, admitting ISS Lyapunov functions, itself admits an ISS Lyapunov function, provided that t…

eess.SY2021★ 1 cited

Compositional Synthesis of Control Barrier Certificates for Networks of Stochastic Systems against -Regular Specifications

Mahathi Anand, Abolfazl Lavaei, Majid Zamani

This paper is concerned with a compositional scheme for the construction of control barrier certificates for interconnected discrete-time stochastic systems. The main objective is…

eess.SY2021★ 11 cited

Safe-visor Architecture for Sandboxing (AI-based) Unverified Controllers in Stochastic Cyber-Physical Systems

Bingzhuo Zhong, Abolfazl Lavaei, Hongpeng Cao +2

High performance but unverified controllers, e.g., artificial intelligence-based (a.k.a. AI-based) controllers, are widely employed in cyber-physical systems (CPSs) to accomplish c…

eess.SY2021★ 9 cited

Symbolic Models for Infinite Networks of Control Systems: A Compositional Approach

Siyuan Liu, Navid Noroozi, Majid Zamani

This paper presents a compositional framework for the construction of symbolic models for a network composed of a countably infinite number of finite-dimensional discrete-time cont…

eess.SY2021

Compositional Construction of Abstractions for Infinite Networks of Discrete-Time Switched Systems

Maryam Sharifi, Abdalla Swikir, Navid Noroozi +1

In this paper, we develop a compositional scheme for the construction of continuous approximations for interconnections of infinitely many discrete-time switched systems. An approx…

cs.LO2021

Automated Verification and Synthesis of Stochastic Hybrid Systems: A Survey

Abolfazl Lavaei, Sadegh Soudjani, Alessandro Abate +1

Stochastic hybrid systems have received significant attentions as a relevant modelling framework describing many systems, from engineering to the life sciences: they enable the stu…

eess.SY2021

From Small-Gain Theory to Compositional Construction of Barrier Certificates for Large-Scale Stochastic Systems

Mahathi Anand, Abolfazl Lavaei, Majid Zamani

This paper is concerned with a compositional approach for the construction of control barrier certificates for large-scale interconnected stochastic systems while synthesizing hybr…