ABORDAGEM SISTEMÁTICA PARA O CONTROLO SEGURO DE SISTEMAS AEROESPACIAIS

Abstract

Formal verification of real-time systems behavior of is a complex task, for several reasons. There are multiple works developed in the domain of formal verification of real-time system behavior by model-checking, and various software tools were developed for this purpose. One of the most complexes problems to be solved in the analysis of real-time controllers is the conversion of programming languages controllers in formal languages, for example finite timed automata to be used as inputs of the existing model-checkers. If the methodology of the programming is well developed and known, this task can be greatly facilitated. Moreover, most real-time systems (especially embedded systems that we intend to study) are programmed in C language This article seeks to establish the methodology of creating programs in C code, from SFC specification formalism, taking into account the formal verification of behavior al properties desired for the system, using the Model-Checking technique and the modelchecker UPPAAL. A case study is presented to illustrate the methodology presented. These preliminary studies are presented on the context of a research collaboration project being developed by researchers of CT2M, ALGORITMI and CCTC research centers of University of Minho (Portugal) and the Mechanical Engineering Department of Technological Institute of Aeronautics (Brazil). Keywords: safe controllers; real-time systems; embedded systems; formal verification; specification formalisms