Transcendental inductive invariants generation for non-linear differential and hybrid systems

  • Authors:
  • Rachid Rebiha;Nadir Matringe;Arnaldo Vieira Moura

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil;Univ. Poitiers and Univ. Paris 7, Poitiers, France;University of Campinas, Campinas, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We present the first verification methods that automatically generate bases of invariants expressed by multivariate formal power series and transcendental functions. We discuss the convergence of solutions generated over hybrid systems that exhibit non-linear models augmented with parameters. We reduce the invariant generation problem to linear algebraic matrix systems, from which one can provide effective methods for solving the original problem. We obtain very general sufficient conditions for the existence and the computation of formal power series invariants over multivariate polynomial continuous differential systems. The formal power series invariants generated are often composed by the expansion of some well-known transcendental functions like log or exp and have an analysable closed-form. This facilitates their use to verify safety properties. Moreover, we generate inequality and equality invariants. Our examples, dealing with non-linear continuous evolution similar to those present today in many critical hybrid embedded systems, show the strength of our results and prove that some of them are beyond the limits of other recent approaches.