Final Report Summary - VERISTAB (Formal Verification of Stability of Embedded Control Systems)
The project developed a novel approach for stability verification that applied model-checking, a successful verification paradigm from the formal methods field, to stability verification. In contrast to existing techniques which are deductive, the approach taken in the project was algorithmic. This facilitated the development of fully automated and scalable methods for stability verification, thereby addressing the shortcomings of the state-of-the-art deductive techniques.
The specific technical results of the project include:
[1] Quantitative predicate abstractions were proposed which constructed finite state abstraction with quantitative information to reason about the stability
[2] A software tool AVERIST has been developed as part of the project, and is made publicly available for other researchers and engineers to use for stability analysis
More information can be found at the dedicated Project's web page: http://software.imdea.org/projects/averist/index.html