Modeling for Symbolic Analysis of Safety Instrumented Systems with Clocks

  • Authors:
  • Roland Kindermann;Tommi Junttila;Ilkka Niemela

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ACSD '11 Proceedings of the 2011 Eleventh International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Safety instrumented systems (SIS) monitor industrial processes and automatically react on dangerous situations. SIS often consist of both logical and time-dependent building blocks. This paper introduces symbolic timed transition systems, a formalism designed for concise and modular description of SIS with clocks and similar time-dependent systems. Furthermore, an implementation of symbolic timed transition systems as an extension to NuSMV is devised. Two ways of checking properties on symbolic timed transition systems are developed: complete, region-abstraction-based model checking using binary decision diagrams and SMT-based bounded model checking. Both approaches are evaluated experimentally.