CONTROL-CPS · Reactive control protocols for cyber-physical systems
FP7 — People (Marie Curie Actions)
- Duration
- 2013-09-01 → 2017-08-31
- EU contribution
- €100,000
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MC-CIG
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Results in brief
Periodic Report Summary 1 - CONTROL-CPS (Reactive control protocols for cyber-physical systems)
The project aims to develop the enabling theory and algorithms for the model-based formal synthesis of correct, robust, reactive control protocols for cyber-physical systems from high-level, rigorous specifications. The individual measurable objectives are: 1. To develop a hybrid systems based modelling framework for networked cyber-physical systems. 2. To formally specify a rich class of properties pertinent to the safe and autonomous operation of cyber-physical systems. 3. To develop algorithms for the automated, formal synthesis of correct, robust, reactive controllers for cyber-physical systems. 4. To validate and demonstrate the correct-by-construction methodology with numerical simulations and physical experiments. The work performed since the beginning of the project include the following papers published in or submitted to peer-reviewed international journals and conferences: [1] Jun Liu and Necmiye Ozay. Finite abstractions with robustness margins for temporal logic-based control synthesis. Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, under review. [2] Jun Liu and Andrew R. Teel. Hybrid systems with memory: Existence of generalized solutions and well-posedness. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, under review. [3] Kun-Zhi Liu, Xi-Ming Sun, Jun Liu, and Andrew R. Teel. Stability theorems for delay differential inclusions. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, under review. [4] Yan He, Xi-Ming Sun, Jun Liu, and Andrew R. Teel. Stability analysis for homogeneous hybrid systems with delays. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, under review. [5] Jun Liu and Andrew R. Teel. Invariance principles for hybrid systems with memory. Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, to appear, available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nahs.2015.08.003 [6] Jun Liu and Andrew R. Teel. Lyapunov-based sufficient conditions for stability of hybrid systems with memory. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, to appear, available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2015.2460031 [7] Yinan Li and Jun Liu. An algorithmic approach to robust invariance control synthesis for discrete-time switched systems. The 2016 International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC), submitted. [8] Pablo Ordonez, Jun Liu, Tony J. Dodd, Andy R. Mills. Modelling and verification of discrete LTI systems using timed automata with an application in engine power management. Technical report, in preparation for submission. [9] Yinan Li, Jun Liu, and Necmiye Ozay. Computing finite abstractions with robustness margins via local reachable set over-approximation. The 2015 IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (ADHS). [10] Yinan Li and Jun Liu. Switching control of differential-algebraic equations with temporal logic specifications. The 2015 American Control Conference (ACC). [11] Erick Lucio, Jun Liu, and Tony J. Dodd. An interactive approach to monocular SLAM. The 2015 Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) Conference. [12] Kun-Zhi Liu, Xi-Ming Sun, Wei Wang, and Jun Liu. Invariance principles for delay differential inclusions. The 2015 Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC). (Zhang Si-Ying Outstanding Youth Paper Award) [13] Jun Liu and Andrew R. Teel. Hybrid systems with memory: Modelling and stability analysis via generalized solutions. The 2014 World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). [14] Jun Liu and Necmiye Ozay. Abstraction, discretization, and robustness in temporal logic control of nonlinear systems. The 2014 International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC; part of the seventh Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) Week). [15] Jun Liu and Pavithra Prabhakar. Switching control of dynamical systems from metric temporal logic specifications. The 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). The main results achieved in these papers include a fundamentally new framework for modelling cyber-physical systems using hybrid systems with delays [2-6,12,13], abstraction-based methods for control of cyber-physical systems [1,7,9,10,14], applications in robotics [11,15] and power systems [8].
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Project objective
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are physical and engineered systems whose operations are monitored, coordinated, controlled, and integrated by a computing and communication core. Systems of this type feature tight interactions between the system's computational and physical components and have attracted increasing attention and investment in both the USA and Europe, for its potential impact on a wide variety of industrial sectors, including aerospace, automotive, chemical production, civil infrastructure, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, materials, and transportation. While most targeted applications of cyber-physical systems are evidently of safety-critical nature, e.g., next generation transportation systems, power grid, and medical devices, how to affordably build and efficiently certify these systems as safe, reliable, and high performance remains one of the grand challenges of CPS research.The proposed research, which lies at the interface of control engineering, computer science, and applied mathematics, aims to bring together a variety of analytical, computational, and experimental tools to address the design and certification challenges in cyber-physical systems. More specifically, it seeks to (1) develop a hybrid systems based modelling framework for networked cyber-physical systems, (2) formally synthesize correct, robust, reactive control protocols for cyber-physical systems from high-level, rigorous specifications that are pertinent to the safe, reliable, and more autonomous operation of cyber-physical systems, and (3) validate and demonstrate the correct-by-construction methodology with numerical simulations and experiments using autonomous mobile robots. Hybrid systems, formal methods, and robotics are three of the key fields the proposed research will directly contribute to. It is expected that the research outcomes will advance the fundamental understanding of and provide new design paradigms for controlling cyber-physical systems.
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Participants
- THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · SHEFFIELDCoordinatorUnited Kingdom
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