An Undecidable Problem for Timed Automata

  • Authors:
  • Anuj Puri

  • Affiliations:
  • Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Event Dynamic Systems
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Thereachability problem for timed automata is decidable when thecoefficients in the guards are rational numbers. We show thatthe reachability problem is undecidable when the coefficientsare chosen from the set \{1,\sqrt{2}\}. A consequenceof this is that the parameter synthesis problem for timed automatawith even a single parameter is undecidable. We discuss why suchundecidability results arise in timed and hybrid systems, whatthey mean, and if it is possible to ’’get around‘‘ them.