A Formal Approach for the Construction and Verification of Railway Control Systems

Anne Elisabeth Haxthausen, Jan Peleska, Sebastian Kinder

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    Abstract

    This paper describes a complete model-based development and verification approach for railway control systems. For each control system to be generated, the user makes a description of the application-specific parameters in a domain-specific language. This description is automatically transformed into an executable control system model expressed in SystemC. This model is then compiled into object code. Verification is performed using three main methods applied to different levels. (0) The domain-specific description is validated wrt. internal consistency by static analysis. (1) The crucial safety properties are verified for the SystemC model by means of bounded model checking. (2) The object code is verified to be I/O behaviourally equivalent to the SystemC model from which it was compiled.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalFormal Aspects of Computing
    Volume23
    Issue number2
    Pages (from-to)191-219
    ISSN0934-5043
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2011

    Keywords

    • Domain-specific languages
    • Domain engineering
    • Railway control systems
    • Verification
    • Code generation
    • Formal methods

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