Automated Formal Synthesis of Digital Controllers for State-Space Physical Plants

  • Alessandro Abate
  • Iury Bessa
  • Dario Cattaruzza
  • Lucas Cordeiro
  • Cristina David
  • Pascal Kesseli
  • Daniel Kroening
  • Elizabeth Polgreen
Conference paper
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 10426)

Abstract

We present a sound and automated approach to synthesize safe digital feedback controllers for physical plants represented as linear, time-invariant models. Models are given as dynamical equations with inputs, evolving over a continuous state space and accounting for errors due to the digitization of signals by the controller. Our counterexample guided inductive synthesis (CEGIS) approach has two phases: We synthesize a static feedback controller that stabilizes the system but that may not be safe for all initial conditions. Safety is then verified either via BMC or abstract acceleration; if the verification step fails, a counterexample is provided to the synthesis engine and the process iterates until a safe controller is obtained. We demonstrate the practical value of this approach by automatically synthesizing safe controllers for intricate physical plant models from the digital control literature.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Alessandro Abate
    • 1
  • Iury Bessa
    • 2
  • Dario Cattaruzza
    • 1
  • Lucas Cordeiro
    • 1
    • 2
  • Cristina David
    • 1
  • Pascal Kesseli
    • 1
  • Daniel Kroening
    • 1
  • Elizabeth Polgreen
    • 1
  1. 1.University of OxfordOxfordUK
  2. 2.Federal University of AmazonasManausBrazil

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