Abstract. In this paper, we formulate and robustly solve a quite general class of hybrid controller synthesis problems. The type of controller we investigate is the switching control mechanism of a hybrid automaton (via guard and mode invariant sets), and the robustness result is with respect to variations in the right hand sides of the differential equations that depend continuously on a parameter. We present a novel methodology for controller design and synthesis which uses modal logic as a formalism for reasoning about sets of plant states, and various operators on sets arising from the differential equations and from metric tolerance relations on the state space.
Thomas Moor, Jennifer M. Davoren