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| Author | Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico | ||||
| Title | Model Based Synthesis of Control Software from System Level Formal Specifications | Type | Report | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal | ||
| Volume | abs/1107.5638 | Issue | Pages | ||
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| Abstract | Many Embedded Systems are indeed Software Based Control Systems, that is control systems whose controller consists of control software running on a microcontroller device. This motivates investigation on Formal Model Based Design approaches for automatic synthesis of embedded systems control software.
We present an algorithm, along with a tool QKS implementing it, that from a formal model (as a Discrete Time Linear Hybrid System) of the controlled system (plant), implementation specifications (that is, number of bits in the Analog-to-Digital, AD, conversion) and System Level Formal Specifications (that is, safety and liveness requirements for the closed loop system) returns correct-by-construction control software that has a Worst Case Execution Time (WCET) linear in the number of AD bits and meets the given specifications. We show feasibility of our approach by presenting experimental results on using it to synthesize control software for a buck DC-DC converter, a widely used mixed-mode analog circuit, and for the inverted pendulum. |
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| Publisher | CoRR, Technical Report | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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| Call Number | Sapienza @ mari @ | Serial | 104 | ||
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| Author | Alimguzhin, Vadim; Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico | ||||
| Title | Automatic Control Software Synthesis for Quantized Discrete Time Hybrid Systems | Type | Report | ||
| Year | 2012 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal | ||
| Volume | abs/1207.4098 | Issue | Pages | ||
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| Abstract | Many Embedded Systems are indeed Software Based Control Systems, that is control systems whose controller consists of control software running on a microcontroller device. This motivates investigation on Formal Model Based Design approaches for automatic synthesis of embedded systems control software. This paper addresses control software synthesis for discrete time nonlinear systems. We present a methodology to overapproximate the dynamics of a discrete time nonlinear hybrid system H by means of a discrete time linear hybrid system L(H), in such a way that controllers for L(H) are guaranteed to be controllers for H. We present experimental results on the inverted pendulum, a challenging and meaningful benchmark in nonlinear Hybrid Systems control. | ||||
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| Publisher | CoRR, Technical Report | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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| Call Number | Sapienza @ mari @ | Serial | 103 | ||
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| Author | Alimguzhin, Vadim; Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico | ||||
| Title | On Model Based Synthesis of Embedded Control Software | Type | Report | ||
| Year | 2012 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal | ||
| Volume | abs/1207.4474 | Issue | Pages | ||
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| Abstract | Many Embedded Systems are indeed Software Based Control Systems (SBCSs), that is control systems whose controller consists of control software running on a microcontroller device. This motivates investigation on Formal Model Based Design approaches for control software. Given the formal model of a plant as a Discrete Time Linear Hybrid System and the implementation specifications (that is, number of bits in the Analog-to-Digital (AD) conversion) correct-by-construction control software can be automatically generated from System Level Formal Specifications of the closed loop system (that is, safety and liveness requirements), by computing a suitable finite abstraction of the plant.
With respect to given implementation specifications, the automatically generated code implements a time optimal control strategy (in terms of set-up time), has a Worst Case Execution Time linear in the number of AD bits $b$, but unfortunately, its size grows exponentially with respect to $b$. In many embedded systems, there are severe restrictions on the computational resources (such as memory or computational power) available to microcontroller devices. This paper addresses model based synthesis of control software by trading system level non-functional requirements (such us optimal set-up time, ripple) with software non-functional requirements (its footprint). Our experimental results show the effectiveness of our approach: for the inverted pendulum benchmark, by using a quantization schema with 12 bits, the size of the small controller is less than 6% of the size of the time optimal one. |
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| Publisher | CoRR, Technical Report | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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| Call Number | Sapienza @ mari @ | Serial | 102 | ||
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| Author | Alimguzhin, Vadim; Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico | ||||
| Title | A Map-Reduce Parallel Approach to Automatic Synthesis of Control Software | Type | Report | ||
| Year | 2012 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal | ||
| Volume | abs/1210.2276 | Issue | Pages | ||
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| Abstract | Many Control Systems are indeed Software Based Control Systems, i.e. control systems whose controller consists of control software running on a microcontroller device. This motivates investigation on Formal Model Based Design approaches for automatic synthesis of control software.
Available algorithms and tools (e.g., QKS) may require weeks or even months of computation to synthesize control software for large-size systems. This motivates search for parallel algorithms for control software synthesis. In this paper, we present a map-reduce style parallel algorithm for control software synthesis when the controlled system (plant) is modeled as discrete time linear hybrid system. Furthermore we present an MPI-based implementation PQKS of our algorithm. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first parallel approach for control software synthesis. We experimentally show effectiveness of PQKS on two classical control synthesis problems: the inverted pendulum and the multi-input buck DC/DC converter. Experiments show that PQKS efficiency is above 65%. As an example, PQKS requires about 16 hours to complete the synthesis of control software for the pendulum on a cluster with 60 processors, instead of the 25 days needed by the sequential algorithm in QKS. |
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| Call Number | Sapienza @ mari @ | Serial | 101 | ||
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| Author | Cesta, Amedeo; Finzi, Alberto; Fratini, Simone; Orlandini, Andrea; Tronci, Enrico | ||||
| Title | Flexible Plan Verification: Feasibility Results | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2009 | Publication | 16th RCRA International Workshop on “Experimental evaluation of algorithms for solving problems with combinatorial explosion” (RCRA). Proceedings | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Call Number | Sapienza @ mari @ Rcra09 | Serial | 22 | ||
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| Author | Tronci, Enrico | ||||
| Title | On Computing Optimal Controllers for Finite State Systems | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 1997 | Publication | CDC '97: Proceedings of the 36th IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Publisher | IEEE Computer Society | Place of Publication | Washington, DC, USA | Editor | |
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| Call Number | Sapienza @ mari @ cdc97 | Serial | 66 | ||
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| Author | Tronci, Enrico | ||||
| Title | Optimal Finite State Supervisory Control | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 1996 | Publication | CDC '96: Proceedings of the 35th IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | Supervisory Controllers are Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (DEDSs) forming the discrete core of a Hybrid Control System. We address the problem of automatic synthesis of Optimal Finite State Supervisory Controllers (OSCs). We show that Boolean First Order Logic (BFOL) and Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) are an effective methodological and practical framework for Optimal Finite State Supervisory Control. Using BFOL programs (i.e. systems of boolean functional equations) and BDDs we give a symbolic (i.e. BDD based) algorithm for automatic synthesis of OSCs. Our OSC synthesis algorithm can handle arbitrary sets of final states as well as plant transition relations containing loops and uncontrollable events (e.g. failures). We report on experimental results on the use of our OSC synthesis algorithm to synthesize a C program implementing a minimum fuel OSC for two autonomous vehicles moving on a 4 x 4 grid. | ||||
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| Publisher | IEEE Computer Society | Place of Publication | Washington, DC, USA | Editor | |
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| Call Number | Sapienza @ mari @ cdc96 | Serial | 67 | ||
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| Author | Bobbio, Andrea; Bologna, Sandro; Minichino, Michele; Ciancamerla, Ester; Incalcaterra, Piero; Kropp, Corrado; Tronci, Enrico | ||||
| Title | Advanced techniques for safety analysis applied to the gas turbine control system of Icaro co generative plant | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2001 | Publication | X Convegno Tecnologie e Sistemi Energetici Complessi | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | Issue | Pages | 339-350 | ||
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| Abstract | The paper describes two complementary and integrable approaches, a probabilistic one and a deterministic one, based on classic and advanced modelling techniques for safety analysis of complex computer based systems. The probabilistic approach is based on classical and innovative probabilistic analysis methods. The deterministic approach is based on formal verification methods. Such approaches are applied to the gas turbine control system of ICARO co generative plant, in operation at ENEA CR Casaccia. The main difference between the two approaches, behind the underlining different theories, is that the probabilistic one addresses the control system by itself, as the set of sensors, processing units and actuators, while the deterministic one also includes the behaviour of the equipment under control which interacts with the control system. The final aim of the research, documented in this paper, is to explore an innovative method which put the probabilistic and deterministic approaches in a strong relation to overcome the drawbacks of their isolated, selective and fragmented use which can lead to inconsistencies in the evaluation results. | ||||
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| Publisher | Place of Publication | Genova, Italy | Editor | ||
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| Call Number | Sapienza @ mari @ tesec01 | Serial | 65 | ||
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| Author | Della Penna, Giuseppe; Tofani, Alberto; Pecorari, Marcello; Raparelli, Orazio; Intrigila, Benedetto; Melatti, Igor; Tronci, Enrico | ||||
| Title | A Case Study on Automated Generation of Integration Tests | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2006 | Publication | Fdl | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | Issue | Pages | 278-284 | ||
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| Publisher | Ecsi | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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| ISSN | 978-3-00-019710-9 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Call Number | Sapienza @ mari @ Dtprimt06 | Serial | 27 | ||
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| Author | Della Penna, Giuseppe; Magazzeni, Daniele; Tofani, Alberto; Intrigila, Benedetto; Melatti, Igor; Tronci, Enrico | ||||
| Title | Automated Generation of Optimal Controllers through Model Checking Techniques | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2006 | Publication | Icinco-Icso | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | Issue | Pages | 26-33 | ||
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| Abstract | We present a methodology for the synthesis of controllers, which exploits (explicit) model checking techniques. That is, we can cope with the systematic exploration of a very large state space. This methodology can be applied to systems where other approaches fail. In particular, we can consider systems with an highly non-linear dynamics and lacking a uniform mathematical description (model). We can also consider situations where the required control action cannot be specified as a local action, and rather a kind of planning is required. Our methodology individuates first a raw optimal controller, then extends it to obtain a more robust one. A case study is presented which considers the well known truck-trailer obstacle avoidance parking problem, in a parking lot with obstacles on it. The complex non-linear dynamics of the truck-trailer system, within the presence of obstacles, makes the parking problem extremely hard. We show how, by our methodology, we can obtain optimal controllers with different degrees of robustness. | ||||
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| Publisher | INSTICC Press | Place of Publication | Editor | Andrade-Cetto, J.; Ferrier, J.-L.; Pereira, J. M. C. D.; Filipe, J. | |
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| ISSN | 972-8865-59-7 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Call Number | Sapienza @ mari @ Dimmtt06 | Serial | 79 | ||
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