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Compositional Construction of In�nite Abstractions for Networks of Stochastic Control Systems
This paper is concerned with a compositional approach for constructing in�nite abstractions of interconnected discrete-time stochastic control systems. The proposed approach uses the interconnection matrix and joint dissipativity-type properties of subsystems and their abstractions described by new notions of so-called stochastic storage functions. The interconnected abstraction framework is based on new notions of so-called stochastic simulation functions, constructed compositionally using stochastic storage functions of components. Using stochastic simulation functions, one can quantify the distance between original interconnected stochastic systems and interconnected abstractions in the probabilistic setting. Accordingly, one can leverage the proposed results to perform analysis and synthesis over abstract interconnected systems, and then carry the results back over concrete ones. In the �rst part of the paper, we derive dissipativity-type compositional reasoning for the quanti�cation of the distance in probability between the interconnection of stochastic control subsystems and that of their abstractions. Moreover, we focus on a class of discrete-time nonlinear stochastic control systems with independent noises in the abstract and concrete subsystems, and propose a computational scheme to construct abstractions together with their corresponding stochastic storage functions. In the second part of the paper, we consider speci�cations expressed as syntactically co-safe linear temporal logic formulae and show how a synthesized policy for the abstract system can be re�ned to a policy or the original system while providing a guarantee on the probability of satisfaction. We demonstrate the e�ectiveness of the proposed results by constructing an abstraction (totally 3 dimensions) of the interconnection of three discrete-time nonlinear stochastic control subsystems (together 222 dimensions) in a compositional fashion such that the compositionality condition does not require any constraint on the number or gains of the subsystems. We also employ the constructed abstraction as a substitute to synthesize a controller enforcing a syntactically co-safe linear temporal logic speci�cation.</p
Compositional abstraction and safety synthesis using overlapping symbolic models
In this paper, we develop a compositional approach to abstraction and safety
synthesis for a general class of discrete time nonlinear systems. Our approach
makes it possible to define a symbolic abstraction by composing a set of
symbolic subsystems that are overlapping in the sense that they can share some
common state variables. We develop compositional safety synthesis techniques
using such overlapping symbolic subsystems. Comparisons, in terms of
conservativeness and of computational complexity, between abstractions and
controllers obtained from different system decompositions are provided.
Numerical experiments show that the proposed approach for symbolic control
synthesis enables a significant complexity reduction with respect to the
centralized approach, while reducing the conservatism with respect to
compositional approaches using non-overlapping subsystems
Sparsity-Sensitive Finite Abstraction
Abstraction of a continuous-space model into a finite state and input
dynamical model is a key step in formal controller synthesis tools. To date,
these software tools have been limited to systems of modest size (typically
6 dimensions) because the abstraction procedure suffers from an
exponential runtime with respect to the sum of state and input dimensions. We
present a simple modification to the abstraction algorithm that dramatically
reduces the computation time for systems exhibiting a sparse interconnection
structure. This modified procedure recovers the same abstraction as the one
computed by a brute force algorithm that disregards the sparsity. Examples
highlight speed-ups from existing benchmarks in the literature, synthesis of a
safety supervisory controller for a 12-dimensional and abstraction of a
51-dimensional vehicular traffic network
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