A Formal-Methods Approach to Provide Evidence in Automated-Driving Safety Cases

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Main Authors: Krook, Jonas, Selvaraj, Yuvaraj, Ahrendt, Wolfgang, Fabian, Martin
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Published: 2022
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author Krook, Jonas
Selvaraj, Yuvaraj
Ahrendt, Wolfgang
Fabian, Martin
author_facet Krook, Jonas
Selvaraj, Yuvaraj
Ahrendt, Wolfgang
Fabian, Martin
contents The safety of automated driving systems must be justified by convincing arguments and supported by compelling evidence to persuade certification agencies, regulatory entities, and the general public to allow the systems on public roads. This persuasion is typically facilitated by compiling the arguments and the compelling evidence into a safety case. Reviews and testing, two common approaches to ensure correctness of automotive systems cannot explore the typically infinite set of possible behaviours. In contrast, formal methods are exhaustive methods that can provide mathematical proofs of correctness of models, and they can be used to prove that formalizations of functional safety requirements are fulfilled by formal models of system components. This paper shows how formal methods can provide evidence for the correct break-down of the functional safety requirements onto the components that are part of feedback loops, and how this evidence fits into the argument of the safety case. If a proof is obtained, the formal models are used as requirements on the components. This structure of the safety argumentation can be used to alleviate the need for reviews and tests to ensure that the break-down is correct, thereby saving effort both in data collection and verification time.
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spellingShingle A Formal-Methods Approach to Provide Evidence in Automated-Driving Safety Cases
Krook, Jonas
Selvaraj, Yuvaraj
Ahrendt, Wolfgang
Fabian, Martin
Software Engineering
Systems and Control
The safety of automated driving systems must be justified by convincing arguments and supported by compelling evidence to persuade certification agencies, regulatory entities, and the general public to allow the systems on public roads. This persuasion is typically facilitated by compiling the arguments and the compelling evidence into a safety case. Reviews and testing, two common approaches to ensure correctness of automotive systems cannot explore the typically infinite set of possible behaviours. In contrast, formal methods are exhaustive methods that can provide mathematical proofs of correctness of models, and they can be used to prove that formalizations of functional safety requirements are fulfilled by formal models of system components. This paper shows how formal methods can provide evidence for the correct break-down of the functional safety requirements onto the components that are part of feedback loops, and how this evidence fits into the argument of the safety case. If a proof is obtained, the formal models are used as requirements on the components. This structure of the safety argumentation can be used to alleviate the need for reviews and tests to ensure that the break-down is correct, thereby saving effort both in data collection and verification time.
title A Formal-Methods Approach to Provide Evidence in Automated-Driving Safety Cases
topic Software Engineering
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07798