Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, 2000
Third International Workshop, HSCC 2000 Pittsburgh, PA, USA, March 23 - 25, 2000 Proceedings
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, Vol. 1790

This title constitutes 32 revised papers presented together with abstracts of four invited talks on computation and control. The focus of the works presented is on modelling, control, synthesis, design and verification of hybrid systems.

Invited Presentations.- Hybrid Models for Automotive Powertrain Systems: Revisiting a Vision.- Experiences in Designing and Using Formal Specification Languages for Embedded Control Software.- Model-Based Autonomous Systems for Robotic Space Exploration.- Models of Computation and Simulation of Hybrid Systems.- Selected Presentations.- Modular Specification of Hybrid Systems in Charon.- Approximate Reachability Analysis of Piecewise-Linear Dynamical Systems.- Maximal Safe Set Computation for Idle Speed Control of an Automotive Engine.- Optimization-Based Verification and Stability Characterization of Piecewise Affine and Hybrid Systems.- Invariant Sets and Control Synthesis for Switching Systems with Safety Specifications.- Verification of Hybrid Systems with Linear Differential Inclusions Using Ellipsoidal Approximations.- Theory of Optimal Control Using Bisimulations.- Behavior Based Robotics Using Hybrid Automata.- Hybrid Controllers for Hierarchically Decomposed Systems.- Beyond HyTech: Hybrid Systems Analysis Using Interval Numerical Methods.- Robust Undecidability of Timed and Hybrid Systems.- Towards a Theory of Stochastic Hybrid Systems.- Automatic Compilation of Concurrent Hybrid Factories from Product Assembly Specifications.- A Hybrid Feedback Regulator Approach to Control an Automotive Suspension System.- Ellipsoidal Techniques for Reachability Analysis.- Uniform Reachability Algorithms.- On the Existence of Solutions to Controlled Hybrid Automata.- Nonlinear Stabilization by Hybrid Quantized Feedback.- Diagnosis of Quantised Systems by Means of Timed Discrete-Event Representations.- Existence and Stability of Limit Cycles in Switched Single Server Flow Networks Modelled as Hybrid Dynamical Systems.- Hybrid Systems Diagnosis.- Decidability and Complexity Results for Timed Automata and Semi-linear Hybrid Automata.- Level Set Methods for Computation in Hybrid Systems.- Towards Procedures for Systematically Deriving Hybrid Models of Complex Systems.- Computing Optimal Operation Schemes for Chemical Plants in Multi-batch Mode.- Hybrid Systems Verification by Location Elimination.- A Dynamic Bayesian Network Approach to Tracking Using Learned Switching Dynamic Models.- Stability of Hybrid Systems Using LMIs — A Gear-Box Application.- Invariance of Approximating Automata for Piecewise Linear Systems with Uncertainties.- Decidable Controller Synthesis for Classes of Linear Systems.- Towards a Geometric Theory of Hybrid Systems.- Controlled Invariance of Discrete Time Systems.- Dynamical Systems Revisited: Hybrid Systems with Zeno Executions.