On Completeness of SDP-Based Barrier Certificate Synthesis over Unbounded Domains

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Main Authors: Wu, Hao, Feng, Shenghua, Gan, Ting, Wang, Jie, Xia, Bican, Zhan, Naijun
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author Wu, Hao
Feng, Shenghua
Gan, Ting
Wang, Jie
Xia, Bican
Zhan, Naijun
author_facet Wu, Hao
Feng, Shenghua
Gan, Ting
Wang, Jie
Xia, Bican
Zhan, Naijun
contents Barrier certificates, serving as differential invariants that witness system safety, play a crucial role in the verification of cyber-physical systems (CPS). Prevailing computational methods for synthesizing barrier certificates are based on semidefinite programming (SDP) by exploiting Putinar Positivstellensatz. Consequently, these approaches are limited by the Archimedean condition, which requires all variables to be bounded, i.e., systems are defined over bounded domains. For systems over unbounded domains, unfortunately, existing methods become incomplete and may fail to identify potential barrier certificates. In this paper, we address this limitation for the unbounded cases. We first give a complete characterization of polynomial barrier certificates by using homogenization, a recent technique in the optimization community to reduce an unbounded optimization problem to a bounded one. Furthermore, motivated by this formulation, we introduce the definition of homogenized systems and propose a complete characterization of a family of non-polynomial barrier certificates with more expressive power. Experimental results demonstrate that our two approaches are more effective while maintaining a comparable level of efficiency.
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spellingShingle On Completeness of SDP-Based Barrier Certificate Synthesis over Unbounded Domains
Wu, Hao
Feng, Shenghua
Gan, Ting
Wang, Jie
Xia, Bican
Zhan, Naijun
Systems and Control
Barrier certificates, serving as differential invariants that witness system safety, play a crucial role in the verification of cyber-physical systems (CPS). Prevailing computational methods for synthesizing barrier certificates are based on semidefinite programming (SDP) by exploiting Putinar Positivstellensatz. Consequently, these approaches are limited by the Archimedean condition, which requires all variables to be bounded, i.e., systems are defined over bounded domains. For systems over unbounded domains, unfortunately, existing methods become incomplete and may fail to identify potential barrier certificates. In this paper, we address this limitation for the unbounded cases. We first give a complete characterization of polynomial barrier certificates by using homogenization, a recent technique in the optimization community to reduce an unbounded optimization problem to a bounded one. Furthermore, motivated by this formulation, we introduce the definition of homogenized systems and propose a complete characterization of a family of non-polynomial barrier certificates with more expressive power. Experimental results demonstrate that our two approaches are more effective while maintaining a comparable level of efficiency.
title On Completeness of SDP-Based Barrier Certificate Synthesis over Unbounded Domains
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.15416