Time-triggered conversion of guards for reachability analysis of hybrid automata

Stanley Bak*, Sergiy Bogomolov, Matthias Althoff

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    Abstract

    A promising technique for the formal verification of embedded and cyber-physical systems is flow-pipe construction, which creates a sequence of regions covering all reachable states over time. Flow-pipe construction methods can check whether specifications are met for all states, rather than just testing using a finite and incomplete set of simulation traces. A fundamental challenge when using flow-pipe construction on high-dimensional systems is the cost of geometric operations, such as intersection and convex hull. We address this challenge by showing that it is often possible to remove the need to perform high-dimensional geometric operations by combining two model transformations, direct time-triggered conversion and dynamics scaling. Further, we prove the overapproximation error in the conversion can be made arbitrarily small. Finally, we show that our transformation-based approach enables the analysis of a drivetrain system with up to 51 dimensions.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationFormal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems - 15th International Conference, FORMATS 2017, Proceedings
    EditorsAlessandro Abate, Gilles Geeraerts
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Pages133-150
    Number of pages18
    ISBN (Print)9783319657646
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2017
    Event15th International Conference on Formal Modelling and Analysis of Timed Systems, FORMATS 2017 - Berlin, Germany
    Duration: 5 Sept 20177 Sept 2017

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume10419 LNCS
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    Conference15th International Conference on Formal Modelling and Analysis of Timed Systems, FORMATS 2017
    Country/TerritoryGermany
    CityBerlin
    Period5/09/177/09/17

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