ICyPhy Webex Feb 4 2012

Presentations:

• Overview of the MuSyC challenge problem (Necmiye)
• Review of Berkeley modeling and design space exploration work (Pierluigi) - limited access on iCyPhy wiki
• Review of Caltech correct-by-construction synthesis work (Mumu)

Possible directions for future work:

1. Continuous-time synthesis
2. Modelica like component models
3. Identify parts of the design process where logic has to be designed by hand (so that we can try out synthesis).
4. Sensor placement/sensor logic
5. A unified language to capture multiple views (contract like specs in this language)
6. Possible ways to integrate EPS domain specific language and LTL spec generator to other design tools (what that language can/should capture to be useful?)
7. More interesting distributed control architectures:
   1. allowing controllers to share contactors
   2. allowing decisions to be made by voting
   3. mapping sensing and control points to controllers
   4. automatically finding local contracts for controllers
   5. automatically explore distributed control architectures using contracts and possibly different specialized analysis and synthesis frameworks

Corresponding iCyPhy wiki page (limited access)

Richard's MuSyC project page

References:

• 767 Electric Power System Modeling in SysML, J. Finn, M. Mazumdar, and A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. MuSyC Public Report 2011.
• An Aircraft Electric Power Testbed for Validating Automatically Synthesized Reactive Control Protocols, Robert Rogersten, Huan Xu, Necmiye Ozay, Ufuk Topcu, and Richard M. Murray. Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC) 2013.
• A Domain-Specific Language for Reactive Control Protocols for Aircraft Electric Power Systems, Huan Xu, Necmiye Ozay and Richard M. Murray, working paper.
• Reactive Protocols for Aircraft Electric Power Distribution, Huan Xu, Ufuk Topcu, and Richard M. Murray. 2012 Conference on Decision and Control (CDC).
• Distributed Power Allocation for Vehicle Management Systems, Necmiye Ozay, Ufuk Topcu and Richard M. Murray. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2011.
• TuLiP: a software toolbox for receding horizon temporal logic planning, Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn, Ufuk Topcu, Necmiye Ozay, Huan Xu, and Richard M. Murray. International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, 2011.