Observability of hybrid automata by abstraction

  • Authors:
  • A. D'Innocenzo;M. D. Di Benedetto;S. Di Gennaro

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of L'Aquila;Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of L'Aquila;Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of L'Aquila

  • Venue:
  • HSCC'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Hybrid Systems: computation and control
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper, we deal with the observability problem of a class of Hybrid Systems whose output is a timed string on a finite alphabet. We determine under which conditions it is always possible to immediately detect, using the observed output, when the system enters a given discrete state. We illustrate how to construct a Timed Automaton that is an abstraction of the given Hybrid System, and that preserves its observability properties. Moreover, we propose a verification algorithm with polynomial complexity for checking the observability of the Timed Automaton, and a constructive procedure for an observer of the discrete state.