A Fast Method to Compute Disjunctive Quadratic Invariants of Numerical Programs

Abstract

We introduce a new method to compute non-convex invariants of numerical programs, which includes the class of switched affine systems with affine guards. We obtain disjunctive and non-convex invariants by associating different partial execution traces with different ellipsoids. A key ingredient is the solution of non-monotone fixed points problems over the space of ellipsoids with a reduction to small size linear matrix inequalities. This allows us to analyze instances that are inaccessible in terms of expressivity or scale by earlier methods based on semi-definite programming.