Analyzing the effects of formal methods on the development of industrial control software

Groote, Jan Friso; Osaiweran, Ammar; Wesselius, Jacco

doi:10.1109/icsm.2011.6081983

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“…It can also be used during the verification of the upper level client components. The details of the step-wise verification that is systematically performed level-by-level according to the ASD method is outside the scope of this paper since our controller design fits in one level, but we refer to [7] for further information.…”

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“…The above necessities motivate this work, which in particular aims at formally modeling and verifying the behavior of the PDU controller and the surrounding devices on the boundary using the Analytical Software Design method [1,7,13].…”

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“…ASD has been applied to the development of complex systems, and some statistics regarding its application to industrial control software are available [1,7].…”

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Analyzing a Controller of a Power Distribution Unit Using Formal Methods

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This paper reports on the steps to formally verify the behavior of a controller of a power distribution unit (PDU) using the Analytical Software Design (ASD) method. The controller of the underlying PDU mainly controls the distribution of power and related network messages to a number of attached PCs and devices of X-ray systems. The behavioral correctness of the controller is critical in order to provide the clinical users the expected behavior of the system. As a result of the behavioral verification, two previously unrevealed errors were identified within the design of the PDU controller. According to the development team of the PDU the work has had a major benefit, locating errors that would have been hard to find otherwise by traditional testing.

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2012

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“…Early reports show that applying formal techniques of ASD resulted in better quality code compared to software developed in more conventional approaches [8]. Therefore, these formal techniques are becoming more and more credible for developing software at Philips Healthcare [7,6,2,13,9].…”

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Experience Report on Designing and Developing Control Components Using Formal Methods

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FM 2012: Formal Methods

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Abstract. This paper reports on experiences from an industrial project related to developing control components of an interventional X-ray system, using formal techniques supplied by the Analytical Software Design approach, of the company Verum. We illustrate how these formal techniques were tightly integrated with the standard development processes and the steps accomplished to obtain verifiable components using model checking. Finally, we show that applying these formal techniques could result in quality software and we provide supporting statistical data for this regard.

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“…Formal methods have shown to improve controllers quality of X-ray equipment in [11]. A control algorithm is manually designed [15], to avoid collision among multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).…”

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Semi-automatic controller design of Java-like models

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Bérard

Hillah

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Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-Like Programs

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Controller synthesis consists in automatically generating a controller to restrict a hardware or software system so that it respects given requirements, for instance safety properties. Existing synthesis tools for discrete event systems mainly solve the problem for systems described in low-level formalisms.Controller synthesis, however, is not used in most industrial engineering processes. Barriers to wider adoption are the complexity of formally expressing the system and its requirements, the state explosion induced by large systems, and the limited confidence in the result, due to the difficulty in understanding the generated code.We propose an iterative, incremental, and semi-automatic approach to controller design, supporting the engineering process and mitigating state space explosion during synthesis. To provide a high-level environment, our approach is implemented in VeriJ, a Java-like language, and illustrated on a significant example taken from automated transport systems.

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Analyzing the effects of formal methods on the development of industrial control software

Cited by 23 publications

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Analyzing a Controller of a Power Distribution Unit Using Formal Methods

Analyzing a Controller of a Power Distribution Unit Using Formal Methods

Experience Report on Designing and Developing Control Components Using Formal Methods

Semi-automatic controller design of Java-like models

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