Robust safety of timed automata

  • Authors:
  • Martin Wulf;Laurent Doyen;Nicolas Markey;Jean-François Raskin

  • Affiliations:
  • Dépt Informatique, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium 1050;École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland 1015;Laboratoire Spécification & Véérification (LSV), ENS Cachan & CNRS, Cachan, France 94230;Dépt Informatique, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium 1050

  • Venue:
  • Formal Methods in System Design
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Timed automata are governed by an idealized semantics that assumes a perfectly precise behavior of the clocks. The traditional semantics is not robust because the slightest perturbation in the timing of actions may lead to completely different behaviors of the automaton. Following several recent works, we consider a relaxation of this semantics, in which guards on transitions are widened by Δ0 and clocks can drift by 驴0. The relaxed semantics encompasses the imprecisions that are inevitably present in an implementation of a timed automaton, due to the finite precision of digital clocks.We solve the safety verification problem for this robust semantics: given a timed automaton and a set of bad states, our algorithm decides if there exist positive values for the parameters Δ and 驴 such that the timed automaton never enters the bad states under the relaxed semantics.