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Timed Automata

Timed automata are linear hybrid automata with the special condition that every continuously changing variable is a clock. That means that every variable varies one to one with time, just counting time.

Timed automata have invariants and guards that compare time only with constants. There are no other continuous dynamics here.

An example of a timed automata is something like an alarm. Easy peasy, is time greater or less than a value. If it is, trigger the alarm! One might also have a constant setting whether or not an alarm is 'enabled'. But, there's no other dynamics than time itself.

Relevant Sources

hybrid-automata-an-algorithmic-approach-to-the-specification-and-verification-of-hybrid-systems