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Software performs a critical role in almost every aspect of our daily life specially in the embedded systems of medical equipments. A key goal of software engineering is to make it possible for developers to construct systems that operate reliably regardless of their complexity. In this paper, by employing Model-Based Design for large and safety-related applications and applying formal verification techniques, we define specific properties to ensure that a software system satisfies its correctness criteria. We use the formal approach to study and verify the properties of a medical device known as Endotracheal intubation. We present how the system is modeled in the Simulink and Stateflow and present a functionality formalization. In order to formally prove some critical properties, we employ Simulink Design Verifier toolset.
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Gholami, MR., Boucheneb, H. (2014). Applying Formal Methods into Safety-Critical Health Applications. In: Ortmeier, F., Rauzy, A. (eds) Model-Based Safety and Assessment. IMBSA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8822. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12214-4_15
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