Descripción del proyecto
Síntesis formal de «software» de control integrado
El «software» de control integrado desempeña un papel esencial en múltiples aplicaciones complejas, incluidos el transporte autónomo, las redes eléctricas y el sector aeroespacial. Estas aplicaciones son ejemplos de sistemas ciberfísicos (CPS, por sus siglas en inglés), cada vez más omnipresentes debido a los rápidos avances en computación, comunicación y memoria. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos AutoCPS desarrollará un proceso de diseño innovador para sintetizar de forma sistemática «software» de control integrado a fin de reducir los costes de diseño y garantizar su precisión. Para abordar la complejidad que subyace al diseño de los CPS a gran escala, este proyecto aboga por una estrategia de «divide y vencerás» para la síntesis de «software» de control. Este método se basa en la combinación de técnicas de composición de la informática y la teoría del control.
Objetivo
Embedded Control software plays a critical role in many safety-critical applications. For instance, modern vehicles use interacting software and hardware components to control steering and braking. Control software forms the main core of autonomous transportation, power networks, and aerospace. These applications are examples of cyber-physical systems (CPS), where distributed software systems interact tightly with spatially distributed physical systems with complex dynamics. CPS are becoming ubiquitous due to rapid advances in computation, communication, and memory. However, the development of core control software running in these systems is still ad hoc and error-prone and much of the engineering costs today go into ensuring that control software works correctly.
In order to reduce the design costs and guaranteeing its correctness, I aim to develop an innovative design process, in which the embedded control software is synthesized from high-level correctness requirements in a push-button and formal manner. Requirements for modern CPS applications go beyond conventional properties in control theory (e.g. stability) and in computer science (e.g. protocol design). Here, I propose a compositional methodology for automated synthesis of control software by combining compositional techniques from computer science (e.g. assume-guarantee rules) with those from control theory (e.g. small-gain theorems). I will leverage decomposition and abstraction as two key tools to tackle the design complexity, by either breaking the design object into semi-independent parts or by aggregating components and eliminating unnecessary details. My project is high-risk because it requires a fundamental re-thinking of design techniques till now studied in separate disciplines. It is high-gain because a successful method for automated synthesis of control software will make it finally possible to develop complex yet reliable CPS applications while considerably reducing the engineering cost.
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Régimen de financiación
ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
80539 MUNCHEN
Alemania