Flow*: an analyzer for non-linear hybrid systems

  • Authors:
  • Xin Chen;Erika Ábrahám;Sriram Sankaranarayanan

  • Affiliations:
  • RWTH Aachen University, Germany;RWTH Aachen University, Germany;University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

  • Venue:
  • CAV'13 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Computer Aided Verification
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The tool Flow* performs Taylor model-based flowpipe construction for non-linear (polynomial) hybrid systems. Flow* combines well-known Taylor model arithmetic techniques for guaranteed approximations of the continuous dynamics in each mode with a combination of approaches for handling mode invariants and discrete transitions. Flow* supports a wide variety of optimizations including adaptive step sizes, adaptive selection of approximation orders and the heuristic selection of template directions for aggregating flowpipes. This paper describes Flow* and demonstrates its performance on a series of non-linear continuous and hybrid system benchmarks. Our comparisons show that Flow* is competitive with other tools.