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Stability and safety are crucial in safety-critical control of dynamical systems. The reach-avoid-stay objectives for deterministic dynamical systems can be effectively handled by formal methods as well as Lyapunov methods with soundness and approximate completeness guarantees. However, for continuoustime stochastic dynamical systems, probabilistic reach-avoidstay problems are viewed as challenging tasks. Motivated by the recent surge of applications in characterizing safety-critical properties using Lyapunov-barrier functions, we aim to provide a stochastic version for probabilistic reach-avoid-stay problems in consideration of robustness. To this end, based on the weak topology, we first establish a connection between probabilistic stability with safety constraints and reach-avoid-stay specifications. We then prove that stochastic Lyapunov-barrier functions provide sufficient conditions for the target objectives. We apply Lyapunov-barrier conditions in control synthesis for reach-avoidstay specifications, and show its effectiveness in a case study.
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