DSSynth: an automated digital controller synthesis tool for physical plants
Abstract
We present an automated MATLAB Toolbox, named DSSynth (Digital-System Synthesizer), to synthesize sound digital controllers for physical plants that are represented as linear timeinvariant systems with single input and output. In particular, DSSynth synthesizes digital controllers that are sound w.r.t. stability and safety specifications. DSSynth considers the complete range of approximations, including time discretization, quantization effects and finite-precision arithmetic (and its rounding errors). We demonstrate the practical value of this toolbox by automatically synthesizing stable and safe controllers for intricate physical plant models from the digital control literature. The resulting toolbox enables the application of program synthesis to real-world control engineering problems. A demonstration can be found at https://youtu.be_hLQslRcee8.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Abate-al:ASE17,
author = {Alessandro Abate and
Iury Bessa and
Dario Cattaruzza and
Lennon C. Chaves and
Lucas C. Cordeiro and
Cristina David and
Pascal Kesseli and
Daniel Kroening and
Elizabeth Polgreen},
title = {{DSSynth:} an automated digital controller synthesis tool for physical plants},
booktitle = {ASE},
pages = {919--924},
publisher = {{IEEE} Computer Society},
year = {2017},
}