University of Colorado Boulder
Foundations of Autonomous Systems Specialization
University of Colorado Boulder

Foundations of Autonomous Systems Specialization

Design Autonomous Systems with Guarantee. Gain the skills to model, specify, verify, and synthesize autonomous systems with guaranteed safety

Majid Zamani

Instructor: Majid Zamani

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Intermediate level

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4 months
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
Build toward a degree

What you'll learn

  • Model basic autonomous systems including linear control systems, sequential circuits, and simple timed automata in a unified manner

  • Synthesize controllers to meet safety, reachability, persistence, and recurrence specifications for finite systems using fixed-point algorithms

  • Conduct model checking for finite systems

  • Describe regular or omega-regular expressions, linear temporal logic formulas, and their corresponding automata representations.

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Specialization - 3 course series

What you'll learn

  • Model basic autonomous systems including linear control systems, sequential circuits, and simple timed automata in a unified fashion

  • Describe solutions and behaviors of systems

  • Define and illustrate interconnections between system

Skills you'll gain

Category: Systems Composition
Category: Modeling Autonomous Systems
Category: Systems' Behaviors

What you'll learn

  • Utilize formal methods to specify and verify requirements for autonomous systems.

  • Model system behaviors and verify stability using various analytical methods.

  • Apply reachable set computation and robustness analysis in system design.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Regular and Omega-Regular Specifications
Category: Reachability Requirements
Category: Safety Requirements
Category: Linear Temporal Logic Specifications
Category: Stability Requirements

What you'll learn

  • Analyze stability properties of linear systems

  • Compute over-approximations of reachable sets for some classes of systems

  • Perform model checking for finite systems

  • Synthesize controllers for safety and reachability specifications for finite systems using fixed-point algorithms

Skills you'll gain

Category: Model Checking
Category: Synthesis of Finite Abstractions
Category: Systems Relations
Category: Synthesis via Fixed-Points

Instructor

Majid Zamani
University of Colorado Boulder
3 Courses935 learners

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This Specialization is part of the following degree program(s) offered by University of Colorado Boulder. If you are admitted and enroll, your completed coursework may count toward your degree learning and your progress can transfer with you.¹

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