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Hybrid systems possess continuous dynamics defined within regions of state spaces and discrete transitions among the regions. Many practical control verification and synthesis tasks can be reduced to reach ability problems for these systems that decide if a particular state-space region is reachable from an initial operating region.
In this paper, we present a computational analysis of the face reachability problem for a class of three-dimensional dynamical systems whose state spaces are defined by piecewise constant vector fields and whose trajectories never return to a state-space region once they exit the region. These systems represent a restricted class of control systems whose dynamics results from a juxtaposition of piecewise parameterized vector fields. We had previously developed a computational algorithm for synthesizing the desired dynamics of a system in phase space by piecing together vector fields geometrically. We demonstrate in this paper that the reachability problem for this class of systems is decidable while the computation is provably intractable (i.e., PSPACE-hard). We prove the intractability via a reduction of satisfiability of quantified boolean formulas to this reachability problem. This result sheds light on the computational complexity of phase-space based control synthesis methods and extends the work of Asarin, Maler, and Pnueli [2] that proves computational undecidability for three-dimensional constant-derivative systems.
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Kolen, J.F., Zhao, F. (1997). A computational analysis of the reachability problem for a class of hybrid dynamical systems. In: Antsaklis, P., Kohn, W., Nerode, A., Sastry, S. (eds) Hybrid Systems IV. HS 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1273. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0031562
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