Hybrid Automata Model of the Heart for Formal Verification of Pacemakers

Abstract

A cardiac model of networked Hybrid Automatas (HAs) cells or nodes is potentially very useful for industry validation of pacemaker algorithms. Such a model replicates the electrical conduction system of the heart and the interaction with a pacemaker. The benchmark is a network of more than 100 HAs. It is based on a published model 1 . It exhibits several key phenomena that are typical for hybrid systems and reachability analysis. Category: academic Difficulty: high 2