A Novel Approach for Solving the BMI Problem in Barrier Certificates Generation

Xin Chen, Chao Peng, Wang Lin, Zhengfeng Yang, Yifang Zhang, Xuandong Li

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Abstract

Barrier certificates generation is widely used in verifying safety properties of hybrid systems because of the relatively low computational complexity it costs. Under sum of squares (SOS) relaxation, the problem of barrier certificate generation is equivalent to that of solving a bilinear matrix inequality (BMI) with a particular type. The paper reveals the special feature of the problem, and adopts it to build a novel computational method. The proposed method introduces a sequential iterative scheme that is able to find analytical solutions, rather than the nonlinear solving procedure to produce numerical solutions used by general BMI solvers and thus is more efficient than them. In addition, different from popular LMI solving based methods, it does not make the verification conditions more conservative, and thus reduces the risk of missing feasible solutions. Benefitting from these two appealing features, it can produce barrier certificates not amenable to existing methods, which is supported by a complexity analysis as well as the experiment on some benchmarks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Aided Verification - 32nd International Conference, CAV 2020, Proceedings
EditorsShuvendu K. Lahiri, Chao Wang
PublisherSpringer
Pages582-603
Number of pages22
ISBN (Print)9783030532871
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event32nd International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2020 - Los Angeles, United States
Duration: 21 Jul 202024 Jul 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12224 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference32nd International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLos Angeles
Period21/07/2024/07/20

Keywords

  • Barrier certificates
  • Bilinear matrix inequalities
  • Formal verification
  • Hybrid systems

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