TY - GEN
T1 - Probabilistic tube-based control synthesis of stochastic multi-agent systems under signal temporal logic
AU - Vlahakis, Eleftherios E.
AU - Lindemann, Lars
AU - Sopasakis, Pantelis
AU - Dimarogonas, Dimos V.
N1 - Accepted for presentation to CDC24
PY - 2025/2/25
Y1 - 2025/2/25
N2 - We consider the control design of stochastic discrete-time linear multi-agent systems (MASs) under a global signal temporal logic (STL) specification to be satisfied at a predefined probability. By decomposing the dynamics into deterministic and error components, we construct a probabilistic reachable tube (PRT) as the Cartesian product of reachable sets of the individual error systems driven by disturbances lying in confidence regions (CRs) with a fixed probability. By bounding the PRT probability with the specification probability, we tighten all state constraints induced by the STL specification by solving tractable optimization problems over segments of the PRT, and relax the underlying stochastic problem with a deterministic one. This approach reduces conservatism compared to tightening guided by the STL structure. Additionally, we propose a recursively feasible algorithm to attack the resulting problem by decomposing it into agent-level subproblems, which are solved iteratively according to a scheduling policy. We demonstrate our method on a ten-agent system, where existing approaches are impractical.
AB - We consider the control design of stochastic discrete-time linear multi-agent systems (MASs) under a global signal temporal logic (STL) specification to be satisfied at a predefined probability. By decomposing the dynamics into deterministic and error components, we construct a probabilistic reachable tube (PRT) as the Cartesian product of reachable sets of the individual error systems driven by disturbances lying in confidence regions (CRs) with a fixed probability. By bounding the PRT probability with the specification probability, we tighten all state constraints induced by the STL specification by solving tractable optimization problems over segments of the PRT, and relax the underlying stochastic problem with a deterministic one. This approach reduces conservatism compared to tightening guided by the STL structure. Additionally, we propose a recursively feasible algorithm to attack the resulting problem by decomposing it into agent-level subproblems, which are solved iteratively according to a scheduling policy. We demonstrate our method on a ten-agent system, where existing approaches are impractical.
KW - eess.SY
KW - cs.SY
U2 - 10.1109/CDC56724.2024.10886279
DO - 10.1109/CDC56724.2024.10886279
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC): Proceedings
SP - 1586
EP - 1592
BT - 2024 IEEE 63rd Conference on Decision and Control (CDC): Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
CY - Milan, Italy
T2 - 2024 IEEE 63rd Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
Y2 - 16 December 2024 through 19 December 2024
ER -