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Safety-Critical Control Synthesis for network systems with Control Barrier Functions and Assume-Guarantee Contracts

2019/11/07 by Yuxiao Chen, Chen, Yuxiao, James Anderson +7 · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Engineering · #Advanced Control Systems Optimization #FOS: Electrical engineering #FOS: Mathematics #Gene Regulatory Network Analysis #Optimization and Control (math.OC) #Smart Grid Security and Resilience #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #electronic engineering #information engineering

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1911.03452

openalex publication_date 2019/11/07 · openalex created_date 2019/11/22 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

This paper aims at the safety-critical control synthesis of network systems such that the satisfaction of the safety constraints can be guaranteed. To handle the large state dimension of such systems, an assume-guarantee contract is used to break the large synthesis problem into smaller subproblems. Parameterized signal temporal logic (pSTL) is used to formally describe the behaviors of the subsystems, which we use as the template for the contract. We show that robust control invariant sets (RCIs) for the subsystems can be composed to form a robust control invariant set for the whole network system under a valid assume-guarantee contract. An epigraph algorithm is proposed to solve for a contract that is valid, ---an approach that has linear complexity for sparse networks, which leads to a robust control invariant set for the whole network system. Implemented with control barrier function (CBF), the state of each subsystem is guaranteed to stay within the safe set. Furthermore, we propose a contingency tube Model Predictive Control approach based on the RCI, which is capable of handling severe contingencies, including topology changes of the network. A power grid example is used to demonstrate the proposed method. The simulation result includes both set point control and contingency recovery, and the safety constraint is always satisfied.

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