Motor-Transmission Drive System: a Benchmark Example for Safety Verification
This paper introduces the Motor-Transmission Drive System as a benchmark example for the safety analysis of hybrid systems.In particular, we illustrate the problem of checking the gear meshing duration and the impact impulse (both of which we refer to as safety) of the Motor-Transmission Drive System.We aim to provide a complete problem description to which different verification tools or approaches for safety analysis can be applied and compared.For this reason, we first elaborate on a hybrid automaton (HA) model of the Motor-Transmission Drive System to describe the gear meshing process with uncertain initial states, and then we specify the safety property of interest.Next, we clarify the characteristic phenomena exhibited by the benchmark which make the verification problem hard to solve.Finally, we show some simulation results to illustrate the influences of the initial states on the safety property.This benchmark example can help the researchers and engineers to find appropriate methods for safety verification of this kind of hybrid system.