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Incremental Synthesis of Safe Controller Guided by Learning-Enabled Barrier Certificates with Efficient LP Verification

  • Niuniu Qi
  • , Hanrui Zhao
  • , Zhengfeng Yang*
  • , Xia Zeng
  • , Mengxin Ren
  • , Chao Peng
  • , Zhiming Liu
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • East China Normal University
  • National University of Defense Technology
  • Southwest University

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Abstract

Safe controller synthesis with formal guarantees is widely employed in safety-critical systems. However, existing controller synthesis methods are subject to significant limitations in scalability and efficiency. This paper presents a novel controller incremental synthesis framework guided by barrier certificates (BCs), thereby generating a safe controller with BC verification. To enhance verification efficiency, we construct a learning-enabled polynomial BC combined with efficient post-verification, which is transformed into smaller-scale linear Programming (LP) subproblems for feasibility determination. Furthermore, we have implemented a tool called ISafeC and evaluated its performance over a set of benchmark examples. The comparative experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our approach.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFormal Methods - 27th International Symposium, FM 2026, Proceedings
EditorsAugusto Sampaio, Marielle Stoelinga
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages419-439
Number of pages21
ISBN (Print)9783032262035
DOIs
StatePublished - 2026
Event27th International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2026 - Tokyo, Japan
Duration: 18 May 202622 May 2026

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume16556 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference27th International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2026
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityTokyo
Period18/05/2622/05/26

Keywords

  • Barrier certificate
  • Controller synthesis
  • Formal verification
  • Linear programming
  • Reinforcement learning

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