Implementation of Hybrid Automata in Scicos

Hybrid automaton is a standard model for describing a hybrid system. A hybrid automaton is a state machine augmented with differential equations and is generally represented by a graph composed of vertices and edges where vertices represent continuous activities and edges represent discrete transitions. Modeling a hybrid automaton with large number of vertices may be difficult, time-consuming and error prone using standard modules in modeling and simulation environments such as Scicos. In this paper, we present the new Scicos automaton block used for modeling and simulation of hybrid automata.