A Semidecidable Procedure for Reachability Analysis of Piecewise Constant Derivative Systems
Dr. Olga Tveretina ( University of Hertfordshire )
- 11:30 28th November 2012 ( week 8, Michaelmas Term 2012 )Christopher Strachey Room, Robert Hooke Building
This talk will focus on a class of hybrid systems called piecewise constant-derivative systems, for which the reachability problem has been proven decidable in two dimensions and undecidable in three or more dimensions. The decidability results for two dimensions rely on the existence of a periodic trajectory after a finite number of steps. The periodic trajectory does not generally exist in higher dimensions. Nevertheless, higher dimensional systems also feature a degree of regularity. I will introduce the notion of quasicycle that represents this kind of acyclic behaviour. I will show that certain types of quasicycle permit computation of exact reachable sets and will illustrate the effectiveness of my approach on some examples.