Research - Paper

In the Pipeline

  • Jie Fu, Abhishek N. Kulkarni, Huan Luo, Nandi O. Leslie, Charles A. Kamhoua,“Secure-by-synthesis network with active deception and temporal logic specifications”, ArXiv, 2020.

Under review

  • Zhentian Qian, Jie Fu, Quanyan Zhu, "A Receding-Horizon MDP Approach for Performance Evaluation of Moving Target Defense in Networks’’, IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, ArXiv, submitted, 2020.

Journal Publications

  • Luyao Niu, Jie Fu, Andrew Clark, “Optimal Minimum Violation Control Synthesis of Cyber-Physical Systems Under Attacks”, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, To Appear, 2020.

  • Bo Lyu, Yanhua Li, Jie Fu, Andrew C. Trapp, Haiyong Xie and Yong Liao,“Scalable User-Substation Assignment with Big Data from Power Grids”, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, vol.PP, no. 99. 2017. pdf

  • Erik Skorina, Ming Luo, Weijia Tao, Fuchen Chen, Jie Fu, Cagdas Onal, “Adapting to Flexibility: Model Reference Adaptive Control of Soft Bending Actuators”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2017, accepted.

  • Jie Fu and U. Topcu, "Synthesis of Shared Autonomy Policies With Temporal Logic Specifications,’’ in IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 7-17, Jan. 2016. pdf

  • Jie Fu and Ufuk Topcu, “Synthesis of joint control and active sensing strategies under temporal logic constraints,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol.PP, no.99, pp.1-1, 2016 . pdf

  • Jie Fu, Herbert G. Tanner, Jeffrey Heinz, Konstantinos Karydis, Jane Chandlee, and Cesar Koirala, “Symbolic planning and control using game theory and grammatical inference,” Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 37, pp. 378-391, 2015. pdf

  • Jie Fu, Herbert G. Tanner, and Jeffrey Heinz, “Concurrent multi-agent systems with temporal logic objectives: game theoretic analysis and planning through negotiation,” IET Control Theory & Applications, vol. 9, iss. 3, pp. 465-474, 2015. link

  • Jie Fu, Herbert G. Tanner, Jeffrey Heinz, and Jane Chandlee, “Adaptive symbolic control for finite-state transition systems with grammatical inference,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol.59, no.2, pp. 505–511, 2014. pdf

  • Jie Fu and Herbert G. Tanner, “Bottom-up symbolic control: attractor-based planning and behavior synthesis,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,vol.58, no.12, pp. 3142–3155, 2013. pdf

  • Herbert G. Tanner, Jie Fu, Chetan Rawal, Jorge L. Piovesan, and Chaouki T. Abdallah, “Finite abstractions for hybrid systems with stable continuous dynamics,” Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, vol 22, no. 1, pp. 83–99, 2012. pdf

Book Chapter

  • Jie Fu, Jeffrey Heinz, and Herbert G. Tanner, “An algebraic characterization of strictly piecewise languages,” In Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation, pages 252-263, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011. Springer-Verlag. pdf

Conference Publications

  • Abhishek N. Kulkarni, Jie Fu, ‘‘Deceptive Strategy Synthesis under Action Misperception in Reachability Games’’,ArXiv(draft version), International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, 2020. acceptance rate 12.6%.

  • Abhishek N. Kulkarni, Jie Fu, “Opportunistic Synthesis in Reactive Games under Information Asymmetry”, arXiv:1906.05847v1 , IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2019.

  • Lening Li, Jie Fu, “Topological Approximate Dynamic Programming under Temporal Logic Constraints”, arXiv:1907.10510v1, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, accepted, 2019.

  • Songyang Han, Jie Fu, Fei Miao, “Exploiting Beneficial Information Sharing Among Autonomous Vehicles”, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, accepted, 2019.

  • Lening Li, Jie Fu, “Approximate Dynamic Programming with Probabilistic Temporal Logic Constraints”, arXiv:1810.02199 math.OC, American Control Conference, 2019.

  • Xuan Liu, Jie Fu, “Compositional Planning in Markov Decision Process: Temporal abstraction meets generalized logic composition”, arXiv:1810.02497 math.OC, American Control Conference, 2019.

  • Renato Gasoto, Miles Macklin, Xuan Liu, Yinan Sun, Kenny Erleben, Cagdas Onal, Jie Fu, “ A Validated Physical Model For Real-Time Simulation of Soft Robotic Snakes”, arXiv:1904.02833 https:youtu.be/wUAGTeKtKsc ICRA, 2019.

  • Luyao Niu, Jie Fu, Andrew Clark, “Minimum Violation Control Synthesis on Cyber-Physical Systems under Attacks ”, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, accepted, 2018.

  • Melkior Ornik, Jie Fu, Niklas Lauffer, Kasun Withanage Perera, Mohammed Alshiekh, Masahiro Ono, Ufuk Topcu, “Expedited Learning in MDPs with Side Information”, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, accepted, 2018.

  • Steven Paull Carr, Nils Jansen, Ralf Wimmer, Jie Fu, Ufuk Topcu “Human-in-the-Loop Synthesis of Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes”, American Control Conference, 2018. pdf

  • Abhishek Ninad Kulkarni, Jie Fu, “A Compositional Approach to Reactive Games under Temporal Logic Specifications”, American Control Conference, 2018. pdf

  • Guojun Wu, Yichen Ding, Yanhua Li, Jun Luo, Fan Zhang, Jie Fu, “Data-Driven Inverse Learning of Passenger Preferences in Urban Public Transits”, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2017. pdf

  • Jie Fu, Ivan Papusha, and Ufuk Topcu, “Sampling-based approximate optimal control under temporal logic constraints”, 20th ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, 2017. pdf

  • Lening Li, Jie Fu, “Sampling-based approximate optimal temporal logic planning”, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Singapore, 2017, pp. 1328-1335. pdf

  • Bo Lyu, Shijian Li, Yanhua Li, Jie Fu, Andrew Trapp, Haiyong Xie and Yong Liao, “Scalable User Assignment in Power Grid: A Data Driven Approach”, 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2016. pdf

  • Rayna Dimitrova, Jie Fu, Ufuk Topcu, “Robust optimal policies for Markov decision processes with safety-threshold constraints”, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2016. pdf

  • Ivan Papusha, Jie Fu, Ufuk Topcu, and Richard M. Murray, “Automata Theory Meets Approximate Dynamic Programming: Optimal Control with Temporal Logic Constraints”, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2016. pdf

  • Jie Fu, Nikolay Atanasov, Ufuk Topcu, and George J. Pappas, “Optimal temporal logic planning in probabilistic semantic maps,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Conference, 2016.

  • Jie Fu and Ufuk Topcu, “Computational methods for stochastic control with metric interval temporal logic specifications,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2015. pdf

  • Jie Fu, Shuo Han, and Ufuk Topcu, “Optimal control in markov decision processes via distributed optimization,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2015. pdf

  • Jie Fu and Ufuk Topcu, “Integrating active sensing into reactive synthesis with temporal logic constraints under partial observations,” American Control Conference, 2015. pdf

  • Jie Fu and Ufuk Topcu, “Pareto efficiency in synthesizing shared autonomy policies with temporal logic constraints.” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2015. pdf

  • Jie Fu and Ufuk Topcu, “Probably approximately correct MDP learning and control with temporal logic constraints”, Robotics: Science and Systems, 2014. pdf

  • Jie Fu, Rayna Dimitrova, and Ufuk Topcu, “Abstractions and sensor design in partial-information, reactive controller synthesis,” American Control Conference, 2014. pdf

  • Jie Fu, Herbert G. Tanner, and Jeffrey Heinz, “Adaptive planning in unknown environments using grammatical inference,” IEEE 52nd Annual Conference on Decision and Control, pp.5357–5363, 2013. pdf

  • Jie Fu, Shridhar Shah, and Herbert G. Tanner, “Hierarchical control via approximate simulation and feedback linearization,” American Control Conference, pp.1816–1821, 2013. pdf

  • Jane Chandlee, Jie Fu, Konstantinos Karydis, Cesar Koirala, Jeffrey Heinz, and Herbert G. Tanner, “Integrating grammatical inference into robotic planning,” 11th International Conference on Grammatical Inference, vol 21. pp. 69–83, 2012. pdf

  • Jie Fu and Herbert G. Tanner, “Optimal planning on register automata,” American Control Conference, pp. 4540–4545, 2012. pdf

Preferred workshop and invited talks

  • “Lecture 2: Formal Methods and Optimal Control Techniques for Autonomous Vehicles,” The IEEE VTS Connected & Autonomous Vehicles Summer School @ WPI,, July 28-29, 2016, Worcester, MA, USA. - - “Probably Approximately Correct MDP Learning and Control With Temporal Logic Constraints,” Robotic Science and Systems Workshop on Guaranteed Safety for Uncertain Robotic Systems, July 13, 2014, UC Berkeley, CA, USA.

  • “Bottom-up Abstraction and Optimal Planning for a Class of Hybrid Systems,” Centre for Intelligent Machines Informal Systems Seminar Series at the McGill University, March 21, 2014, Quebec, CA.

  • “Adaptive Symbolic Control with Grammatical Inference,” ESE Special Seminar Series at the University of Pennsylvania, May 2, 2013, PA, USA.

Dissertation

“Bottom-up Symbolic Control and Adaptive Systems: Abstraction, Planning and Learning,” PhD Thesis, University of Delaware, 2013. pdf