A Hierarchical State Machine Model for Hazard Analysis of Real-time Safety Critical Systems

Ahmed Mohamed Bakr; May Salama; Abdelwahab Alsammak

doi:10.7494/csci.2021.22.1.3547

Authors

Ahmed Mohamed Bakr Shoubra Faculty of Engineering, Benha University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1387-6178
May Salama Shoubra Faculty of Engineering, Benha University
Abdelwahab Alsammak

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7494/csci.2021.22.1.3547

Keywords:

hazard analysis, fault tree analysis, hierarchical CRSM, ANSI-C, real-time systems

Abstract

Real-time systems must avoid hazardous situations. To achieve this, their functionality should be investigated under time constraints. In this paper, a modeling based on Hierarchical Communicating Real-time State Machine (H- CRSM) and analysis methodology is proposed to examine statically ANSI-C code to obtain the hazardous events in the input system. A hazardous event equation is taken as input to the proposed system. The output is a list of hazardous scenarios. A path in the code showing the cause of the undesirable event is associated with each hazardous scenario. The strength of the proposed methodology is that the process of hazardous situations detection does not require running the ANSI-C program multiple times with different input values. It also focuses on analyzing the software level of the life cycle. Most of the verification tools check the system level. The system level may be bug-free but the software level may not.

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