Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control : 5th International Workshop, HSCC 2002, Stanford, CA, USA, March 25-27, 2002, Proceedings

Abstracts of Invited Presentations.- Hybrid and Embedded Software Technologies for Production Large-Scale Systems.- Numerical Methods for Differential Systems with Algebraic Equality and Inequality Constraints.- From Models to Code: The Missing Link in Embedded Software.- Papers.- Hybrid System Models of Navigation Strategies for Games and Animations.- Hybrid Control of a Truck and Trailer Vehicle.- Reachability Analysis of Hybrid Systems via Predicate Abstraction.- Towards Computing Phase Portraits of Polygonal Differential Inclusions.- Dynamical Qualitative Analysis of Evolutionary Systems.- Design of Observers for Hybrid Systems.- Guaranteed Overapproximations of Unsafe Sets for Continuous and Hybrid Systems: Solving the Hamilton-Jacobi Equation Using Viability Techniques.- On the Optimal Control Law for Linear Discrete Time Hybrid Systems.- A Computational Framework for the Verification and Synthesis of Force-Guided Robotic Assembly Strategies.- A Comparison of Control Problems for Timed and Hybrid Systems.- Hybrid Control Loops, A/D Maps, and Dynamic Specifications.- Switching and Feedback Laws for Control of Constrained Switched Nonlinear Systems.- Quantized Stabilization of Two-Input Linear Systems: A Lower Bound on the Minimal Quantization Density.- Analysis of Discrete-Time PWA Systems with Logic States.- Modeling and Control of Co-generation Power Plants: A Hybrid System Approach.- Exploiting Implicit Representations in Timed Automaton Verification for Controller Synthesis.- Computation of Root-Mean-Square Gains of Switched Linear Systems.- Mode Estimation of Probabilistic Hybrid Systems.- Symmetry Reduction of a Class of Hybrid Systems.- Bisimulation Based Hierarchical System Architecture for Single-Agent Multi-modal Systems.- Qualitative Modeling and Heterogeneous Control of Global System Behavior.- An Approach to Model-Based Diagnosis of Hybrid Systems.- Information-Based Alpha-Beta Search and the Homicidal Chau.eur.- Synthesis of Robust Control Systems under Resource Constraints.- Optimal Control of Quantized Input Systems.- Reconfiguration in Hierarchical Control of Piecewise-Affine Systems.- Hybrid Kernels and Capture Basins for Impulse Constrained Systems.- Ordered Upwind Methods for Hybrid Control.- Discrete-Time Refinement of Hybrid Automata.- Control of Switched Hybrid Systems Based on Disjunctive Formulations.- Composing Abstractions of Hybrid Systems.- Optimal Control of Hysteresis in Smart Actuators: A Viscosity Solutions Approach.- Series of Abstractions for Hybrid Automata.