Security-Aware Planning and Control of Multi-Agent Systems with LTL Tasks

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Main Authors: Mitsos, Georgios, Dimarogonas, Dimos V., Liu, Siyuan
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Published: 2026
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author Mitsos, Georgios
Dimarogonas, Dimos V.
Liu, Siyuan
author_facet Mitsos, Georgios
Dimarogonas, Dimos V.
Liu, Siyuan
contents This paper presents a secure-by-construction planning and control framework for multi-agent systems subject to linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications. The framework protects sensitive information from a passive intruder with partial observations of the agents' motion. Security in multi-agent coordination is captured by two notions that prevent the intruder from inferring whether a secret task has been executed and from identifying the agent responsible for its execution. The proposed framework incorporates the security constraints directly into the LTL synthesis procedure by constructing a secure finite transition system that removes all paths violating these constraints. Standard LTL synthesis is then applied to this secure abstraction to generate discrete plans, which are then refined into dynamically feasible continuous trajectories. This synthesis procedure provides formal guarantees that the resulting behavior of the multi-agent system satisfies both the global LTL specification and the security constraints. The effectiveness of the proposed framework is demonstrated through a two-drone case study.
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spellingShingle Security-Aware Planning and Control of Multi-Agent Systems with LTL Tasks
Mitsos, Georgios
Dimarogonas, Dimos V.
Liu, Siyuan
Systems and Control
This paper presents a secure-by-construction planning and control framework for multi-agent systems subject to linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications. The framework protects sensitive information from a passive intruder with partial observations of the agents' motion. Security in multi-agent coordination is captured by two notions that prevent the intruder from inferring whether a secret task has been executed and from identifying the agent responsible for its execution. The proposed framework incorporates the security constraints directly into the LTL synthesis procedure by constructing a secure finite transition system that removes all paths violating these constraints. Standard LTL synthesis is then applied to this secure abstraction to generate discrete plans, which are then refined into dynamically feasible continuous trajectories. This synthesis procedure provides formal guarantees that the resulting behavior of the multi-agent system satisfies both the global LTL specification and the security constraints. The effectiveness of the proposed framework is demonstrated through a two-drone case study.
title Security-Aware Planning and Control of Multi-Agent Systems with LTL Tasks
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13134