Abstract. The formal verification of cyber-physical systems is a challenging task mainly because of the involvement of various factors of continuous nature, such as the analog components or the surrounding environment. Traditional verification methods, such as model checking or automated theorem proving, usually deal with these continuous aspects by using abstracted discrete models. This fact makes cyber-physical system designs error prone, which may lead to disastrous consequences given the safety and financial critical nature of their applications. Leveraging upon the high expressiveness of higher-order logic, we propose to use higher-order-logic theorem proving to analyze continuous models of cyber-physical systems. To facilitate this process, this paper presents the formalization of the solutions of second-order homogeneous linear differential equations. To illustrate the usefulness of our foundational cyberphysical system analysis formalization, we present the formal analysis of a damped harmonic oscillator and a second-order op-amp circuit using the HOL4 theorem prover.
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