Ph.D. Course

Hybrid systems

16 – 21 June 2011

 

Ph.D. in Information Technology

Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione

Politecnico di Milano

 

Lecturers:

John Lygeros – ETH Zurich

Maria Prandini – Politecnico di Milano

 

 

Course description:

The aim of this course is to introduce the student to the area of hybrid systems, that is dynamical systems characterized by the interaction of different types of dynamics, both continuous and discrete.

The interest in a systematic study of hybrid systems has been fuelled by recent technological innovations, which led to the pervasive diffusion of increasingly complex digital system for the control and supervision of physical systems (“embedded” systems represent a significant example in this respect). 

The study of hybrid systems is generally more challenging than that of purely discrete or purely continuous systems, because of the interaction between dynamics of different nature. In this course, we shall introduce models for hybrid systems, and describe general methods for investigating properties such as reachability, observability and stability. Control of hybrid systems will also be addressed according to a reachability analysis approach. Analysis and design methods will be demonstrated on examples from different application contexts. Finally, we shall consider stochastic hybrid systems, and discuss recently developed methods for reachability analysis of this class of systems where the hybrid dynamics is affected by probabilistic uncertainty.

Students attending the course should be able to appreciate the diversity of phenomena that arise in hybrid systems, and understand how concepts that are classical in the theory of discrete systems, modelled by automata, can coexist with concepts that are classical in the theory of continuous systems, modelled by differential equations, in a unifying framework.

 

 

Structure of the course:

Thursday June 16 (M. Prandini)

11.30 – 13.00   Introduction and motivating examples. Definition of hybrid automaton. [pdf]

14.30 – 16.00   Execution of a hybrid automaton: Zeno, blocking, and nondeterministic automata. [pdf]

Friday June 17 (M. Prandini):

09.30 – 11.00   Lyapunov stability. [pdf]

11.30 – 13.00   Stability for switched linear systems. [pdf]

14.30 – 16.00   State observer. [pdf]

Monday June 20 (J. Lygeros)

14.30 – 16.00  Reachability analysis: definition and deductive methods.      

16.30 – 18.00   Model checking.

Tuesday June 21 (J. Lygeros)

9.30 – 11.00     Reachability with inputs: A game theoretic perspective. 

11.30 – 13.00   Stochastic hybrid systems.  [pdf]

14.30 – 16.00   Reachability analysis.  

Remarks: Time schedule does not include breaks but refers to effective lecture-time.

 

To register to the course, please, send an e-mail to dottoratoinginfo@elet.polimi.it

 

Lectures will take place at the Aula Seminari of the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione del Politecnico di Milano, via Ponzio 34/5, 20133 Milano.

See  

http://www.dei.polimi.it/presentazione/come_raggiungerci/index.php?&idlang=eng

for directions on how to reach the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione.

 

Reference material:

John Lygeros, Lecture Notes on Hybrid Systems.

M. Branicky. Multiple Lyapunov functions and other analysis tools for switched and hybrid systems. IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, 43(4):475-482, 1998. [stability]

R.A. Decarlo, M.S. Branicky, S. Petterson, B. Lennartson. Perspectives and results on the stability and stabilization of hybrid systems. Proceedings of the IEEE, 88(7):1069-1082, 2000. [stability]

M. Johansson and A. Rantzer. Computation of piecewise quadratic Lyapunov function for hybrid systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 43(4):555-559, 1998. [stability]

D. Liberzon, A. S. Morse. Basic problems in stability and design of switched systems. IEEE Control Systems Magazine, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 59-70, Oct. 1999. [stability of switched systems]

Daniel LiberzonSwitching in Systems and Control, Birkhauser, 2003. [stability of switched systems]

A. Alessandri and P. Coletta. Switching observers for continuous-time and discrete-time linear systems. Proceedings of the American Control Conference Arlington, VA June, 2001. [state observer]

A. Balluchi, L. Benvenuti, M. D. Di Benedetto, A. L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. Design of Observers for Hybrid Systems. In Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2289, Springer-Verlag, 2002. [state observer]

Y. Gao, J. Lygeros, M. Quincampoix. On the Reachability Problem for Uncertain Hybrid Systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 52(9): 1572-1586, 2007. [reachability with inputs]

J. Lygeros and M. Prandini. Stochastic hybrid systems: a powerful framework for complex, large scale applications. European Journal of Control, vol. 16(6):583-594, 2010 [stochastic hybrid systems]

A. Abate, J.P. Katoen, J. Lygeros, M. Prandini. Approximate model checking of stochastic hybrid systems. European Journal of Control, special issue on Stochastic hybrid systems, vol. 16(6): 624-641, 2010.  [stochastic hybrid systems]