Title
Pegasus: sound continuous invariant generation
Abstract
Continuous invariants are an important component in deductive verification of hybrid and continuous systems. Just like discrete invariants are used to reason about correctness in discrete systems without having to unroll their loops, continuous invariants are used to reason about differential equations without having to solve them. Automatic generation of continuous invariants remains one of the biggest practical challenges to the automation of formal proofs of safety for hybrid systems. There are at present many disparate methods available for generating continuous invariants; however, this wealth of diverse techniques presents a number of challenges, with different methods having different strengths and weaknesses. To address some of these challenges, we develop Pegasus: an automatic continuous invariant generator which allows for combinations of various methods, and integrate it with the KeYmaera X theorem prover for hybrid systems. We describe some of the architectural aspects of this integration, comment on its methods and challenges, and present an experimental evaluation on a suite of benchmarks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/s10703-020-00355-z
Formal Methods in System Design
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Invariant generation, Continuous invariants, Ordinary differential equations, Theorem proving
Journal
58
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0925-9856
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
19
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrew Sogokon1196.16
Stefan Mitsch225229.32
Yong Kiam Tan310712.93
Cordwell Katherine400.34
André Platzer5142582.57