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Wind Turbine System: An Industrial Case Study in Formal Modeling and Verification

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Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems (FTSCS 2013)

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Abstract

In the development of embedded systems, the formal analysis of system artifacts, such as structural and behavioral models, helps the system engineers to understand the overall functional and timing behavior of the system. In this case study paper, we present our experience in applying formal verification and validation (V&V) techniques, we had earlier proposed, for an industrial wind turbine system (WTS). We demonstrate the complementary benefits of formal verification in the context of existing V&V practices largely based on simulation and testing. We also discuss some modeling trade-offs and challenges we have identified with the case-study, which are worth being emphasized. One issue is related, for instance, to the expressiveness of the system artifacts, in view of the known limitations of rigorous verification, e.g. model-checking, of industrial systems.

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    While time is also an ‘event’, we differentiate this in this paper explicitly.

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This work was partially funded by Swedish Research Council (project ARROWS), Mälardalen University (Sweden), and ARTEMISIA project iFEST.

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  1. Mälardalen Real-Time Research Centre, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden

    Jagadish Suryadevara, Cristina Seceleanu & Paul Pettersson

  2. ABB Corporate Research, Billingstad, Norway

    Gaetana Sapienza, Tiberiu Seceleanu & Stein-Erik Ellevseth

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Suryadevara, J., Sapienza, G., Seceleanu, C., Seceleanu, T., Ellevseth, SE., Pettersson, P. (2014). Wind Turbine System: An Industrial Case Study in Formal Modeling and Verification. In: Artho, C., Ölveczky, P. (eds) Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems. FTSCS 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 419. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05416-2_15

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