Robust synthesis for real-time systems

Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Axel Legay, Luois-Marie Traonouez, Andrzej Wasowski

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    Abstract

    Specification theories for real-time systems allow reasoning about interfaces and their implementation models, using a set of operators that includes satisfaction, refinement, logical and parallel composition. To make such theories applicable throughout the entire design process from an abstract specification to an implementation, we need to reason about the possibility to effectively implement the theoretical specifications on physical systems, despite their limited precision. In the literature, this implementation problem has been linked to the robustness problem that analyzes the consequences of introducing small perturbations into formal models.

    We address this problem of robust implementations in timed specification theories. We first consider a fixed perturbation and study the robustness of timed specifications with respect to the operators of the theory. To this end we synthesize robust strategies in timed games. Finally, we consider the parametric robustness problem and propose a counter-example refinement heuristic for computing safe perturbation values.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalTheoretical Computer Science
    Volume515
    Pages (from-to)96-122
    Number of pages28
    ISSN0304-3975
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014

    Keywords

    • Real-Time Systems
    • Specification Theory
    • Robustness
    • Timed Games
    • Implementation
    • Timed I/O automata
    • Stepwise refinement

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