Effective programming language support for discrete-continuous mode-switching control systems

We consider control systems with discrete switching between continuous modes (e.g., control laws, approximations, degraded modes). Improved controller programming techniques can be obtained by using the support of high-level languages. Their design combines useability and readability of structures w.r.t. the control systems, with an effective use of formal analysis techniques for, e.g., performance analysis, code optimization, behavior verification or discrete control synthesis. We focus on the synchronous languages for reactive systems, especially mode-automata, and the verification that an implementation respects temporal constraints of the algorithms.