Verified design of an automated parking garage

  • Authors:
  • Aad Mathijssen;A. Johannes Pretorius

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • FMICS'06/PDMC'06 Proceedings of the 11th international workshop, FMICS 2006 and 5th international workshop, PDMC conference on Formal methods: Applications and technology
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Parking garages that stow and retrieve cars automatically are becoming viable solutions for parking shortages. However, these are complex systems and a number of severe incidents involving such garages have been reported. Many of these are related to safety issues in software. We apply verification techniques to develop a software design for an automated parking garage. This design meets a number of safety requirements. We provide a software architecture that allows one to split implementation, safety and algorithmic aspects of the software. Consequently, we give a high-level description of the safety aspects and verify a number of safety requirements on this model. Also, we briefly discuss how this analysis is simplified by using a custom visualization tool.