Automatic construction of digital controllers/device drivers for electro- mechanical systems using component models

摘要

Qualitative reasoning for physical systems, and techniques for automatic code generation are used to automatically construct digital controllers/device drivers for electro-mechanical systems. Such construction uses models of the system's components described as finite state machines, to form a configuration space. Transitions of the configuration space are labelled as external or internal and a state of the system is identified as a desired state while other states are identified as undesirable. From this configuration space a controller is generated to drive the system to the desired state while avoiding the undesirable states.