%0 Book Section %A Bemporad, Alberto %B Decision and Control Conference %C Las Vegas, Nevada USA, December 2002 %D 2002 %F eprints:551 %I IEEE %K equivalent piecewise affine form; linear dynamic equations; linear hybrid systems; mixed logical dynamical systems; piecewise affine systems; control system analysis; piecewise linear techniques %P 1970-1975 %T An efficient technique for translating mixed logical dynamical systems into piecewise affine systems %U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/551/ %V 2 %X For linear hybrid systems consisting of linear dynamic equations interacting with linear threshold events, automata, and logic propositions, provided in mixed-logical dynamical (MLD) form, this paper describes an efficient technique for transforming such systems into an equivalent piecewise affine (PWA) form, where equivalent means that for the same initial conditions and input sequences the trajectories of the system are identical.