"""Runnable check for the control law. `python3 test_control.py` No framework, no fixtures - it needs to run on a tech's laptop and in CI with nothing installed. Every assert here corresponds to a rule that exists because its absence caused an observed failure on real hardware. If you change control.py, run this. If it fails, the inverter would have done something you did not intend. """ import sys from app.control import Tuning, compute, maintenance_charge_floor, peak_at_risk T = Tuning() fails = [] def check(name, cond): if cond: print(f" ok {name}") else: print(f" FAIL {name}") fails.append(name) # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # COVERAGE AUDIT - measured, not executed. Read this before adding a mechanism. # # THE INVARIANT: every mechanism in compute() must be noticed by AT LEAST TWO # checks when it is deleted. If you add a mechanism to compute(), re-run the # audit and add it to the table. If a figure here drops, a check has started # passing for a reason other than the one it names. # # THE TECHNIQUE, because there is no script to run: replace one mechanism in # control.py with a no-op, run this file, count the failures, restore. That is # the converse of the usual mutation - not "does a wrong value fail?" but "does # anyone notice when the mechanism is GONE?". It is kept as a comment rather # than as tooling on purpose: the only cheap way to automate it is to key on # source lines, which goes stale silently, and a green audit that has quietly # stopped testing anything is precisely the failure this ticket exists to fix. # A comment cannot go stale-green, because it never claims to be running. # # Measured at 389d9ec. Numbers are the lead's independent reproduction. # # mechanism in compute() checks that fail when deleted # ------------------------------------------ ----------------------------- # integrator freeze (AC 3) 2 # integrator clamp (AC 1) 6 # integrator bound follows max_w 4 # output clamp 3 # slew limit 4 # output freeze 2 # deadband 5 # quantisation 2 # saturation detector, `saturated_now = False` 11 # saturation duration (AC 2), fires instantly 2 # sat counter reset on a good cycle 6 # target_grid_w bias 3 # i_w=None seeding from prev_w 6 # # The detector figure is for the `saturated_now = False` form specifically; # disabling it further down as `frozen = False` is a weaker mutation and gives # 10. Reproduce the same form or the number will not match. # # ⚠️ IT HAS FOUND A DEAD MECHANISM TWICE, BOTH THE SAME WAY: a clamp standing in # for the mechanism under test. Deleting the integrator freeze once failed # NOTHING, because the fixtures sat at max_w 2000 and the integrator bound # truncated a wound value back to exactly 2000 - the assertion passed on the # clamp. The output clamp was masked the same way by the integrator bound. # Hence: A FIXTURE MUST SIT CLEAR OF EVERY RAIL IT IS NOT TESTING. Where a test # names one mechanism, make that mechanism the binding one (see TCLAMP and TF). # # ⚠️ RUN MUTATIONS WITH `python -B` AND CLEAR app/__pycache__. CPython # invalidates a .pyc on (source mtime in whole seconds, source size), so a # same-second rewrite that also preserves the file size reuses stale bytecode # and the suite reports on code you are no longer running. It under-reported one # mutation here as 2 where the true figure is 6. The error is one-directional - # stale bytecode can only under-report - so every figure above is a lower bound # at worst, and the two zeros ever recorded were both confirmed by fixing them # and watching the count rise, which a caching artefact cannot do. # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- print("control law") # Deadband: inside meter noise, hold exactly - do not drift. d = compute(prev_w=900, grid_w=10, actual_w=900, tuning=T) check("deadband holds the command", d.target_w == 900 and d.reason == "deadband") d = compute(prev_w=900, grid_w=20, actual_w=900, tuning=T) check("outside deadband it acts", d.target_w != 900) # Proportional: 0 + 0.6*500 = 300 d = compute(prev_w=0, grid_w=500, actual_w=0, tuning=T) check("proportional step (gain 0.6)", d.target_w == 300) # Sign: exporting (negative grid) must CHARGE (negative target). d = compute(prev_w=0, grid_w=-500, actual_w=0, tuning=T) check("export drives charging", d.target_w == -300) # Clamp. # ⚠️ integrator_max_w is lifted clear of max_w so that the OUTPUT clamp is the # mechanism under test. Left at the default the integrator bound truncates # first, these two assertions pass on that alone, and deleting the output clamp # fails nothing - the same masking that hid the integrator freeze. TCLAMP = Tuning(max_w=2000, slew_w=5000, integrator_max_w=5000) d = compute(prev_w=1900, grid_w=1000, actual_w=1900, tuning=TCLAMP) check("clamped to max_w", d.target_w == 2000) # Slew: from 0 with a huge error, no more than slew_w in one cycle. d = compute(prev_w=0, grid_w=5000, actual_w=0, tuning=Tuning(max_w=5000, slew_w=1000)) check("slew limits one cycle", d.target_w == 1000) d = compute(prev_w=-1900, grid_w=-1000, actual_w=-1900, tuning=TCLAMP) check("clamped to -max_w", d.target_w == -2000) d = compute(prev_w=0, grid_w=-5000, actual_w=0, tuning=Tuning(max_w=5000, slew_w=1000)) check("slew limits one cycle, charging", d.target_w == -1000) # Saturation needs DURATION: one diverging cycle must NOT freeze. t = Tuning(saturation_w=500, saturation_cycles=3) d1 = compute(prev_w=2000, grid_w=500, actual_w=1000, tuning=t, sat_count=0) check("one saturated cycle does not freeze", not d1.frozen and d1.sat_count == 1) d2 = compute(prev_w=2000, grid_w=500, actual_w=1000, tuning=t, sat_count=d1.sat_count) d3 = compute(prev_w=2000, grid_w=500, actual_w=1000, tuning=t, sat_count=d2.sat_count) check("three consecutive saturated cycles freeze", d3.frozen) check("freeze forbids raising magnitude", d3.target_w <= 2000) # ...and one good cycle clears the counter immediately. d4 = compute(prev_w=2000, grid_w=500, actual_w=1990, tuning=t, sat_count=3) check("counter resets when tracking resumes", d4.sat_count == 0 and not d4.frozen) # Freeze must still allow the magnitude to FALL (that is the escape route). d = compute(prev_w=2000, grid_w=-800, actual_w=1000, tuning=t, sat_count=3) check("freeze still allows magnitude to fall", d.target_w < 2000) # Maintenance shaping (charge-only, cheap-window floor) is no longer this # function's business - it is expressed as limit claims. See test_arbiter.py. # Quantisation d = compute(prev_w=0, grid_w=7, actual_w=0, tuning=Tuning(deadband_w=1, step_w=10)) check("quantised to step_w", d.target_w % 10 == 0) print("SAFETY-04: the integrator is bounded apart from the output") # The historical runaway, with its real numbers. A commercial controller on # this site, with the inverter switched OFF, wound ~130 W every 4 s past 10 kW # and reported 14 768 W while its output clamp sat at 5 kW. At gain 0.6 that # rate is a standing error of 130/0.6 = 217 W that never resolves, because the # inverter is not there to resolve it. 150 cycles is past the ~113 it took to # reach 14 768 W at that rate. RUNAWAY_ERROR = 130.0 / 0.6 RUNAWAY_CYCLES = 150 HISTORICAL_W = 14768.0 def runaway(tuning, sign=1): """Inverter off: it reports 0 W forever, the error never clears.""" prev, i_w, sat = 0.0, 0.0, 0 worst_i, worst_cmd = 0.0, 0.0 for _ in range(RUNAWAY_CYCLES): d = compute(prev_w=prev, grid_w=sign * RUNAWAY_ERROR, actual_w=0.0, tuning=tuning, sat_count=sat, i_w=i_w) prev, i_w, sat = d.target_w, d.i_w, d.sat_count worst_i = max(worst_i, abs(i_w)) worst_cmd = max(worst_cmd, abs(prev)) return worst_i, worst_cmd TR = Tuning(max_w=2000) # integrator_max_w unset => follows max_w wi, wc = runaway(TR) check(f"runaway: integrator plateaus at {wi:.0f} W (<= 2000)", wi <= TR.max_w) check(f"runaway: emitted command peaks at {wc:.0f} W (<= 2000)", wc <= TR.max_w) check("runaway: nowhere near the historical 14 768 W", wc < HISTORICAL_W / 4) # ...and with the saturation detector deliberately defeated, so that only the # clamp is holding. Kill one mechanism, the other still bounds it. TD = Tuning(max_w=2000, saturation_w=1e9) wi, wc = runaway(TD) check(f"runaway with the detector defeated: integrator still bounded ({wi:.0f} W)", wi <= TD.max_w) check("runaway with the detector defeated: command still <= max_w", wc <= TD.max_w) # The mirror: the same runaway driving the other way. An export that never # clears winds the integrator negative just as hard. wi, wc = runaway(Tuning(max_w=2000), sign=-1) check(f"runaway (export direction): integrator bounded at {wi:.0f} W", wi <= 2000) check("runaway (export direction): emitted command <= max_w", wc <= 2000) # The bound is a separate quantity, and the useful direction is BELOW max_w: # there it binds first and caps unwind latency tighter than the rail does. d = compute(prev_w=0, grid_w=6000, actual_w=0, tuning=Tuning(max_w=2000, integrator_max_w=1000, slew_w=5000)) check("integrator bound binds independently of the output clamp", d.i_w == 1000 and d.target_w == 1000) # Freeze = may not wind further in the direction it is already pushing. # ⚠️ max_w is raised WELL above the fixtures on purpose. At the default 2000 # the integrator bound truncates a wound value back to exactly 2000 and # satisfies these assertions on its own, so deleting the freeze outright # failed nothing - the clamp was standing in for the mechanism under test. # Any fixture here must sit clear of every rail, or it tests the rail. TF = Tuning(saturation_w=500, saturation_cycles=3, max_w=5000) f1 = compute(prev_w=2000, grid_w=800, actual_w=0, tuning=TF, sat_count=3, i_w=2000.0) check("frozen: integration does not wind further", f1.i_w == 2000.0 and f1.frozen) f2 = compute(prev_w=2000, grid_w=-800, actual_w=0, tuning=TF, sat_count=3, i_w=2000.0) check("frozen: unwinding is still allowed", f2.i_w < 2000.0) # ...and the same two on the charging side. Every freeze rule in this file has # a mirror, because the one that did not is the defect that got through review. f3 = compute(prev_w=-2000, grid_w=-800, actual_w=0, tuning=TF, sat_count=3, i_w=-2000.0) check("frozen (charging): integration does not wind further", f3.i_w == -2000.0) f4 = compute(prev_w=-2000, grid_w=800, actual_w=0, tuning=TF, sat_count=3, i_w=-2000.0) check("frozen (charging): unwinding is still allowed", f4.i_w > -2000.0) # ⚠️ REGRESSION, and the reason the first cut of SAFETY-04 was rejected. A # freeze encoded as "only corrections that shrink |i_w|" is unsatisfiable for # BOTH signs of error whenever |correction| > 2*|i_w|, so near zero the loop # stops moving forever - the freeze cannot clear, because clearing it needs the # inverter to track and not-tracking is what saturation means. Measured on that # encoding: 0 W held into a 2 kW import for as long as the sim ran. z = compute(prev_w=0, grid_w=2000, actual_w=600, tuning=T, sat_count=3, i_w=0.0) check("frozen at i_w=0: a 2 kW import still moves the command", z.frozen and z.target_w == 1000) # ...and the next cycle the inverter is inside saturation_w of the command, so # the freeze clears on its own. Deadlock would show up here as frozen=True. z2 = compute(prev_w=1000, grid_w=1000, actual_w=600, tuning=T, sat_count=z.sat_count, i_w=z.i_w) check("frozen at i_w=0: the freeze then clears", not z2.frozen) # Same stranding on the other side: a small positive integrator against export. z3 = compute(prev_w=100, grid_w=-1000, actual_w=800, tuning=T, sat_count=3, i_w=100.0) check("frozen at i_w=+100: a 1 kW export still moves the command", z3.frozen and z3.target_w < 0) z4 = compute(prev_w=-100, grid_w=1000, actual_w=-800, tuning=T, sat_count=3, i_w=-100.0) check("frozen at i_w=-100: a 1 kW import still moves the command", z4.frozen and z4.target_w > 0) # ⚠️ EXACTLY ZERO, BOTH DIRECTIONS. This boundary has a history: the first cut # deadlocked here under import, and the fix for it deadlocked here under export # because `if i_w > 0 ... else ...` files 0.0 under rising-only. main.py resets # i_w to exactly 0.0 on every stop and every reseed, so it is a normal state, # not a corner. zi = compute(prev_w=0, grid_w=2000, actual_w=600, tuning=T, sat_count=3, i_w=0.0) check("frozen at i_w=0.0: an import push moves the integrator", zi.frozen and zi.i_w > 0) ze = compute(prev_w=0, grid_w=-2000, actual_w=-600, tuning=T, sat_count=3, i_w=0.0) check("frozen at i_w=0.0: an export push moves the integrator", ze.frozen and ze.i_w < 0) # The COMMAND still holds at 0 W in that second case, and that is release/1.0's # rule, not a leftover: at prev_w == 0 the output freeze forbids starting to # charge while saturated, because commanding 0 while the inverter reports # hundreds of watts means something else is driving the bus. Asserted so that # nobody "fixes" it by accident - the integrator moving is what this ticket # owns, the command rule belongs to the output freeze. check("frozen at i_w=0.0: the output freeze still blocks a charge from 0 W", ze.target_w == 0.0) # Where prev_w is already charging the output freeze does NOT block, and there # the difference reaches the wire: held at 0.0 the integrator abandons the # charge mid-export. zc = compute(prev_w=-2000, grid_w=-4000, actual_w=-600, tuning=T, sat_count=3, i_w=0.0) check("frozen at i_w=0.0: a charge is not abandoned during heavy export", zc.target_w == -2000.0) # The general property, rather than another handful of points: while frozen the # integrator may be held ONLY when the correction would push it further from # zero on the side it already sits. Any other hold is a deadlock. stuck = [] for i0 in [x * 25.0 for x in range(-80, 81)]: for g in [x * 100.0 for x in range(-40, 41)]: err = g - T.target_grid_w if abs(err) < T.deadband_w: continue dd = compute(prev_w=0.0, grid_w=g, actual_w=1500.0, tuning=T, sat_count=3, i_w=i0) if dd.i_w == i0 and not ((i0 > 0 and err > 0) or (i0 < 0 and err < 0)): stuck.append((i0, g)) check(f"frozen integrator never deadlocks, over {161*81} states" + (f" (e.g. {stuck[0]})" if stuck else ""), not stuck) # False-positive guard: a normal 2 kW load step must not trip the detector, # because the plant needs several cycles to catch up on every one of them. prev, actual, sat, i_w, froze = 0.0, 0.0, 0, 0.0, False for _ in range(12): d = compute(prev, 2000.0 - actual, actual, T, sat, i_w) prev, sat, i_w = d.target_w, d.sat_count, d.i_w actual = actual + 0.94 * (prev - actual) froze = froze or d.frozen check("a normal 2 kW load step does not trip the saturation freeze", not froze) # The convergence sim below runs WITHOUT a carried integrator. This is the same # 2 kW step in the configuration that actually ships, where main.py carries it. prev, actual, sat, i_w = 0.0, 0.0, 0, 0.0 carried = 0 for _ in range(12): d = compute(prev, 2000.0 - actual, actual, T, sat, i_w) prev, sat, i_w = d.target_w, d.sat_count, d.i_w actual = actual + 0.94 * (prev - actual) carried += 1 if abs(2000.0 - actual) < T.deadband_w: break check(f"carried integrator converges in {carried} cycles (<=6)", carried <= 6) check("carried integrator does not overshoot the load", actual <= 2000.0 + T.deadband_w) # ⚠️ REGRESSION: an integrator allowed to wind past the rail buys nothing (the # output clamp already bounds the wire) and costs extra cycles of # wrong-direction power after every saturation event. 4000 W load held to # saturation, then dropped to 0; the figure is the command on the first cycle # after the drop. This is what makes the DOCS advice checkable. def unwind(t): prev, actual, sat, i_w, load = 0.0, 0.0, 0, 0.0, 4000.0 for c in range(16): if c == 15: load = 0.0 d = compute(prev, load - actual, actual, t, sat, i_w) prev, sat, i_w = d.target_w, d.sat_count, d.i_w actual = actual + 0.94 * (prev - actual) return prev tight, loose = unwind(Tuning(max_w=2000)), unwind(Tuning(max_w=2000, integrator_max_w=3000)) check(f"after saturation ends the command is {tight:.0f} W (<= 1000)", tight <= 1000) check(f"headroom above max_w makes that worse ({loose:.0f} W) - hence the default", loose > tight) print("SAFETY-04: the i_w=None path is still release/1.0, exactly") def legacy(prev, grid, actual, t, sat_count): """release/1.0's control law, transcribed. Do not 'improve' this.""" reason = "tracking" sc = min(sat_count + 1, 10) if abs(prev - actual) > t.saturation_w else 0 frozen = sc >= t.saturation_cycles error = grid - t.target_grid_w if abs(error) < t.deadband_w: want, reason = prev, "deadband" else: want = prev + t.gain * error target = max(-t.max_w, min(t.max_w, want)) if target != want: reason = "clamped" slewed = max(prev - t.slew_w, min(prev + t.slew_w, target)) if slewed != target: reason = "slew-limited" target = slewed if frozen: target = min(target, prev) if prev > 0 else max(target, prev) reason = "saturated-freeze" step = max(1, int(t.step_w)) return float(round(target / step) * step), sc, frozen, reason # ⚠️ Compare EVERYTHING observable, not just the number. A previous version of # this sweep compared (target_w, sat_count) only and passed 3024 cases while # `reason` had silently lost a value - which is the kind of thing a sweep this # broad exists to catch. `frozen` and `reason` are both in the tuple now. # # The one deliberate rename: what release/1.0 called "clamped" is now # "i-clamped", because the truncation happens on the integrator before the # command is derived from it. Aliased here rather than papered over - if any # OTHER reason ever diverges, this check goes red. ALIAS = {"i-clamped": "clamped"} diffs = [] seen = set() for tune in (Tuning(), Tuning(target_grid_w=-10.0), Tuning(max_w=5000, slew_w=5000)): for prev in (-2000.0, -500.0, -100.0, 0.0, 100.0, 500.0, 2000.0): for grid in (-6000.0, -1000.0, -500.0, -14.0, 0.0, 14.0, 500.0, 1000.0, 6000.0): for actual in (-2000.0, 0.0, 600.0, 2000.0): for sc in (0, 2, 3, 9): d = compute(prev, grid, actual, tune, sc) # i_w defaults to None seen.add(d.reason) got = (d.target_w, d.sat_count, d.frozen, ALIAS.get(d.reason, d.reason)) if got != legacy(prev, grid, actual, tune, sc): diffs.append((prev, grid, actual, sc, got, legacy(prev, grid, actual, tune, sc))) check(f"i_w=None reproduces release/1.0 over {3*7*9*4*4} cases, reason included" + (f" (first diff {diffs[0]})" if diffs else ""), not diffs) # ...and the rename is not a quiet deletion: the signal SAFETY-03 alarms on has # to actually occur in that sweep, or its hook is dead. check("the integrator clamp reports itself as 'i-clamped'", "i-clamped" in seen) # "clamped" stays reachable, but only where the integrator is deliberately # allowed above the rail - then BOTH fire and the output clamp, which describes # the value actually emitted, is the one reported. dc = compute(prev_w=0, grid_w=6000, actual_w=0, tuning=Tuning(max_w=2000, integrator_max_w=3000, slew_w=5000)) check("the output clamp still reports 'clamped' when it is the binding one", dc.reason == "clamped" and dc.i_w == 3000 and dc.target_w == 2000) print("capacity tariff") check("no forecast means no cap", maintenance_charge_floor(2500, None, 3500) == 2500) check("headroom caps the charge", maintenance_charge_floor(2500, 2000, 3500) == 1500) check("no headroom means no charge", maintenance_charge_floor(2500, 4000, 3500) == 0) check("peak risk detected", peak_at_risk(4000, 3500) is True) check("peak risk off without forecast", peak_at_risk(None, 3500) is False) print("behaviour: 2 kW load step converges") # Closed-loop sim. The plant is modelled as first-order-ish: it moves most of # the way to the command each cycle (measured: 94 % by 3.3 s against a ~5 s # cycle). House load steps by 2000 W at t=0. prev, actual, sat, load = 0.0, 0.0, 0, 2000.0 cycles = 0 for i in range(12): grid = load - actual # what the meter sees d = compute(prev, grid, actual, T, sat) prev, sat = d.target_w, d.sat_count actual = actual + 0.94 * (prev - actual) # plant follows cycles += 1 if abs(load - actual) < T.deadband_w: break check(f"converges within deadband in {cycles} cycles (<=6)", cycles <= 6) check("no overshoot past the load", actual <= load + T.deadband_w) print("grid bias: the deadband must not rest on the import register") # The billed asymmetry: import and export are separate registers, so a resting # point inside the deadband on the import side is paid for every second it # holds. 14 W held all day is 0.34 kWh. T0 = Tuning(target_grid_w=0.0) TB = Tuning(target_grid_w=-10.0) check("unbiased, +14 W import rests forever", compute(500.0, 14.0, 500.0, T0).reason == "deadband") d = compute(500.0, 14.0, 500.0, TB) check("biased, the same +14 W is corrected", d.reason != "deadband" and d.target_w > 500.0) check("biased, a small export rests", compute(500.0, -10.0, 500.0, TB).reason == "deadband") check("biased, the band still ends before -25 W", compute(500.0, -30.0, 500.0, TB).reason != "deadband") # Worst-case billed leak: the band is [bias - deadband, bias + deadband], so it # drops from 15 W to 5 W. Set target_grid_w to -deadband_w to remove it entirely, # at the cost of giving that much away as export. check("worst billed rest point falls from 15 W to under 5 W", compute(500.0, 4.9, 500.0, TB).reason == "deadband" and compute(500.0, 5.0, 500.0, TB).reason != "deadband") print() if fails: print(f"{len(fails)} FAILED: {', '.join(fails)}") sys.exit(1) print("all checks passed")