Hybrid System - Other Modeling Approaches

Other Modeling Approaches

Two basic hybrid system modeling approaches can be classified, an implicit and an explicit one. The explicit approach is often represented by a hybrid automaton, a hybrid program or a hybrid Petri net. The implicit approach is often represented by guarded equations to result in systems of differential algebraic equations (DAEs) where the active equations may change, for example by means of a hybrid bond graph.

As an unified simulation approach for hybrid system analysis, there is a method based on DEVS formalism in which integrators for differential equations are quantized into atomic DEVS models. This methods generates traces of system behaviors in discrete event system manner which is different from discrete time systems. Detailed of this approach can be found in references and the software tool PowerDEVS.