Title
Verifying safety and persistence in hybrid systems using flowpipes and continuous invariants
Abstract
We describe a method for verifying the temporal property of persistence in non-linear hybrid systems. Given some system and an initial set of states, the method establishes that system trajectories always eventually evolve into some specified target subset of the states of one of the discrete modes of the system, and always remain within this target region. The method also computes a time-bound within which the target region is always reached. The approach combines flowpipe computation with deductive reasoning about invariants and is more general than each technique alone. We illustrate the method with a case study showing that potentially destructive stick-slip oscillations of an oil-well drill eventually die away for a certain choice of drill control parameters. The case study demonstrates how just using flowpipes or just reasoning about invariants alone can be insufficient and shows the richness of systems that one can handle with the proposed method, since the systems features modes with non-polynomial ODEs. We also propose an alternative method for proving persistence that relies solely on flowpipe computation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s10817-018-9497-x
Journal of Automated Reasoning
Keywords
Field
DocType
Persistence verification, Safety verification, Ordinary differential equations, Hybrid systems, Metric temporal logic, Flowpipes, Positively invariant sets
Ordinary differential equation,Algorithm,Deductive reasoning,Invariant (mathematics),Drill,Hybrid system,Mathematics,Ode,Computation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
63.0
SP4
1573-0670
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
50
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrew Sogokon1196.16
Paul B. Jackson212814.62
Taylor T. Johnson321431.54