%0 Journal Article
%@ 1063-6536
%A Torrisi, Fabio Danilo
%A Bemporad, Alberto
%D 2004
%F eprints:461
%I IEEE
%J IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
%K HYSDEL; analysis problems; automotive example; computational hybrid models; cruise control design; discrete hybrid automata; discrete-time; finite state machine; high-level modeling language; hybrid systems description language; linear complementarity systems; min-max-plus-scaling systems; mixed logical dynamical systems; mode selector; optimal control; piecewise affine systems; reachability analysis; software tools; switched linear dynamic system; synthesis problems; control system CAD; control system analysis computing; discrete time systems; finite state machines; high level languages; optimal control; piecewise linear techniques; reachability analysis; software tools
%N 2
%P 235-249
%T HYSDEL - A tool for generating computational hybrid models
%U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/461/
%V 12
%X This paper presents a computational framework for modeling hybrid systems in discrete-time. We introduce the class of discrete hybrid automata (DHA) and show its relation with several other existing model paradigms: piecewise affine systems, mixed logical dynamical systems, (extended) linear complementarity systems, min-max-plus-scaling systems. We present HYSDEL (hybrid systems description language), a high-level modeling language for DHA, and a set of tools for translating DHA into any of the former hybrid models. Such a multimodeling capability of HYSDEL is particularly appealing for exploiting a large number of available analysis and synthesis techniques, each one developed for a particular class of hybrid models. An automotive example shows the modeling capabilities of HYSDEL and how the different models allow to use several computational tools.