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Author Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico
Title From Boolean Functional Equations to Control Software Type Report
Year 2011 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume abs/1106.0468 Issue Pages
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Abstract Many software as well digital hardware automatic synthesis methods define the set of implementations meeting the given system specifications with a boolean relation K. In such a context a fundamental step in the software (hardware) synthesis process is finding effective solutions to the functional equation defined by K. This entails finding a (set of) boolean function(s) F (typically represented using OBDDs, Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams) such that: 1) for all x for which K is satisfiable, K(x, F(x)) = 1 holds; 2) the implementation of F is efficient with respect to given implementation parameters such as code size or execution time. While this problem has been widely studied in digital hardware synthesis, little has been done in a software synthesis context. Unfortunately the approaches developed for hardware synthesis cannot be directly used in a software context. This motivates investigation of effective methods to solve the above problem when F has to be implemented with software. In this paper we present an algorithm that, from an OBDD representation for K, generates a C code implementation for F that has the same size as the OBDD for F and a WCET (Worst Case Execution Time) at most O(nr), being n = |x| the number of arguments of functions in F and r the number of functions in F.
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Author Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico
Title Quantized Feedback Control Software Synthesis from System Level Formal Specifications for Buck DC/DC Converters Type Report
Year 2011 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume abs/1105.5640 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 automatic synthesis of SBCS control software. In previous works we presented an algorithm, along with a tool QKS implementing it, that from a formal model (as a Discrete Time Linear Hybrid System, DTLHS) 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. In this technical report we present full experimental results on using it to synthesize control software for two versions of buck DC-DC converters (single-input and multi-input), a widely used mixed-mode analog circuit.
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Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ Serial 106
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Author Kuijpers, Ed; Carotenuto, Luigi; Malapert, Jean-Cristophe; Markov-Vetter, Daniela; Melatti, Igor; Orlandini, Andrea; Pinchuk, Ranni
Title Collaboration on ISS Experiment Data and Knowledge Representation Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication Proc. of IAC 2012 Abbreviated Journal
Volume D.5.11 Issue Pages
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Call Number Sapienza @ melatti @ Serial 107
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Author Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico
Title Synthesizing Control Software from Boolean Relations Type Journal Article
Year 2012 Publication International Journal on Advances in Software Abbreviated Journal Intern. Journal on Advances in SW
Volume vol. 5, nr 3&4 Issue Pages 212-223
Keywords Control Software Synthesis; Embedded Systems; Model Checking
Abstract Many software as well digital hardware automatic
synthesis methods define the set of
implementations meeting the given system
specifications with a boolean relation K. In
such a context a fundamental step in the software
(hardware) synthesis process is finding effective
solutions to the functional equation defined by
K. This entails finding a (set of) boolean
function(s) F (typically represented using
OBDDs, Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams)
such that: 1) for all x for which K is
satisfiable, K(x, F(x)) = 1 holds; 2) the
implementation of F is efficient with respect
to given implementation parameters such as code
size or execution time. While this problem has
been widely studied in digital hardware synthesis,
little has been done in a software synthesis
context. Unfortunately, the approaches developed
for hardware synthesis cannot be directly used in
a software context. This motivates investigation
of effective methods to solve the above problem
when F has to be implemented with software. In
this paper, we present an algorithm that, from an
OBDD representation for K, generates a C code
implementation for F that has the same size as
the OBDD for F and a worst case execution time
linear in nr, being n = |x| the number of
input arguments for functions in F and r the
number of functions in F. Moreover, a formal
proof of the proposed algorithm correctness is
also shown. Finally, we present experimental
results showing effectiveness of the proposed
algorithm.
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Publisher IARIA Place of Publication Editor Luigi Lavazza
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ISSN 1942-2628 ISBN Medium
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Call Number Sapienza @ melatti @ Serial 108
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Author Alimguzhin, Vadim; Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico
Title On-the-Fly Control Software Synthesis Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication Proceedings of International SPIN Symposium on Model Checking of Software (SPIN 2013) Abbreviated Journal International SPIN Symposium on Model Checking of Software
Volume Issue Pages 61-80
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Publisher Springer - Verlag Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Lecture Notes in Computer Science Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume 7976 Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-39175-0 Medium
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Call Number Sapienza @ melatti @ Serial 111
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Author Mancini, Toni; Mari, Federico; Massini, Annalisa; Melatti, Igor; Merli, Fabio; Tronci, Enrico
Title System Level Formal Verification via Model Checking Driven Simulation Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification. July 13-19, 2013, Saint Petersburg, Russia Abbreviated Journal CAV 2013
Volume Issue Pages 296-312
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Publisher Springer - Verlag Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Lecture Notes in Computer Science Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume 8044 Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-39798-1 Medium
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Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ Serial 113
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Author Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico
Title Linear Constraints and Guarded Predicates as a Modeling Language for Discrete Time Hybrid Systems Type Journal Article
Year 2013 Publication International Journal on Advances in Software Abbreviated Journal Intern. Journal on Advances in SW
Volume vol. 6, nr 1&2 Issue Pages 155-169
Keywords Model-based software design; Linear predicates; Hybrid systems
Abstract Model based design is particularly appealing in
software based control systems (e.g., embedded
software) design, since in such a case system
level specifications are much easier to define
than the control software behavior itself. In
turn, model based design of embedded systems
requires modeling both continuous subsystems
(typically, the plant) as well as discrete
subsystems (the controller). This is typically
done using hybrid systems. Mixed Integer Linear
Programming (MILP) based abstraction techniques
have been successfully applied to automatically
synthesize correct-by-construction control
software for discrete time linear hybrid systems,
where plant dynamics is modeled as a linear
predicate over state, input, and next state
variables. Unfortunately, MILP solvers require
such linear predicates to be conjunctions of
linear constraints, which is not a natural way of
modeling hybrid systems. In this paper we show
that, under the hypothesis that each variable
ranges over a bounded interval, any linear
predicate built upon conjunction and disjunction
of linear constraints can be automatically
translated into an equivalent conjunctive
predicate. Since variable bounds play a key role
in this translation, our algorithm includes a
procedure to compute all implicit variable bounds
of the given linear predicate. Furthermore, we
show that a particular form of linear predicates,
namely guarded predicates, are a natural and
powerful language to succinctly model discrete
time linear hybrid systems dynamics. Finally, we
experimentally show the feasibility of our
approach on an important and challenging case
study taken from the literature, namely the
multi-input Buck DC-DC Converter. As an example,
the guarded predicate that models (with 57
constraints) a 6-inputs Buck DC-DC Converter is
translated in a conjunctive predicate (with 102
linear constraints) in about 40 minutes.
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Publisher IARIA Place of Publication Editor Luigi Lavazza
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Call Number Sapienza @ melatti @ Serial 115
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Author Alimguzhin, V.; Mari, F.; Melatti, I.; Salvo, I.; Tronci, E.
Title Linearising Discrete Time Hybrid Systems Type Journal Article
Year 2017 Publication IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Abbreviated Journal
Volume 62 Issue 10 Pages 5357-5364
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Abstract Model Based Design approaches for embedded systems aim at generating correct-by-construction control software, guaranteeing that the closed loop system (controller and plant) meets given system level formal specifications. This technical note addresses control synthesis for safety and reachability properties of possibly non-linear discrete time hybrid systems. By means of syntactical transformations that require non-linear terms to be Lipschitz continuous functions, we over-approximate non-linear dynamics with a linear system whose controllers are guaranteed to be controllers of the original system. We evaluate performance of our approach on meaningful control synthesis benchmarks, also comparing it to a state-of-the-art tool.
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Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ ref7902199 Serial 164
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Author Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Tronci, Enrico; Finzi, Alberto
Title A multi-hop advertising discovery and delivering protocol for multi administrative domain MANET Type Journal Article
Year 2013 Publication Mobile Information Systems Abbreviated Journal Mobile Information Systems
Volume 3 Issue 9 Pages 261-280
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Publisher IOS Press Place of Publication Editor
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Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1574-017x (Print) 1875-905X (Online) ISBN Medium
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Call Number Sapienza @ melatti @ Serial 109
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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 Journal Article
Year 2014 Publication ACM TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND METHODOLOGY Abbreviated Journal ACM TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND METHODOLOGY
Volume 23 Issue 1 Pages Article 6
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ISSN 1049-331X ISBN Medium
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Call Number Sapienza @ melatti @ Serial 110
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