Ordonez, P., Mills, A.R., Dodd, T. orcid.org/0000-0001-6820-4526 et al. (1 more author) (2017) Formal Verification of a Gain Scheduling Control Scheme. In: Control and Automation (MED), 2017 25th Mediterranean Conference on. 2017 25th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), 03-06 Jul 2017, Valletta, Malta. IEEE , pp. 259-264.
Abstract
Gain scheduling is a commonly used closed-loop control approach for safety critical non-linear systems, such as commercial gas turbine engines. It is preferred over more advanced control strategies due to a known route to certification. Nonetheless, the stability of the system is hard to prove analytically, and consequently, safety and airworthiness is achieved by burdensome extensive testing. Model checking can aid in bringing down development costs of such a control system and simultaneously improve safety by providing guarantees on properties of embedded control systems. Due to model-checking exhaustive verification capabilities, it has long been recognised that coverage and error-detection rate can be increased compared to traditional testing methods. However, the statespace explosion is still a major computational limitation when applying model-checking to verify dynamic system behaviour. A practical methodology to incrementally design and formally verify control system requirements for a gain scheduling scheme is demonstrated in this paper, overcoming the computational constraints traditionally imposed by model checking. In this manner, the gain-scheduled controller can be efficiently and safely generated with the aid of the model checker.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Keywords: | Model checking; Automata; Control systems; Safety; Computational modeling; Process control |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 08 May 2018 09:26 |
Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2022 13:49 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1109/MED.2017.7984128 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1109/MED.2017.7984128 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:130404 |