Which automata for which safety assessment step of satellite FDIR?

  • Authors:
  • Ludovic Pintard;Christel Seguin;Jean-Paul Blanquart

  • Affiliations:
  • CNRS, LAAS, Toulouse, France;ONERA-CERT, Toulouse cedex, France;Astrium SAS, Toulouse cedex 4, France

  • Venue:
  • SAFECOMP'12 Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper presents how three kinds of automata can be used in a complementary way to progressively design and assess the Failure Detection Isolation and Recovery (FDIR) mechanisms of a satellite. AltaRica language and tools are chosen to investigate how discrete mode automata can be used to assess the overall system architecture against highest level safety and dependability requirements. SCADE language and tools are chosen to model and verify the software part of the FDIR with synchronous data flows. HyTech language and tools are used to validate the hypotheses about the physical behaviours of components thanks to hybrid automata. Each case tries to highlight the relevant safety objectives, the granularity of model sufficient for these safety and dependability objectives and the model tractability with the existing tools.