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Primal-dual tests for safety and reachability

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Summary, in English

A methodology for safety verification using barrier certificates has been proposed recently, Conditions that must be satisfied by a barrier certificate can be formulated as a convex program, and the feasibility of the program implies system safety, in the sense that there is no trajectory starting from a given set of initial states that reaches a given unsafe region. The dual of this problem, i.e., the reachability problem, concerns proving the existence of a trajectory starting from the initial set that reaches another given set. Using insights from convex duality and the concept of density functions, in this paper we show that reachability can also be verified through convex programming. Several convex programs for verifying safety, reachability, and other properties such as eventuality are formulated. Some examples are provided to illustrate their applications.

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Pages

542-556

Publication/Series

Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volume

3414

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Control Engineering

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1611-3349
  • ISSN: 0302-9743
  • ISBN: 978-3-540-25108-8