Zahra Ramezani: Enhancing Temporal Logic Falsification of Cyber-Physical Systems

Licentiate Seminar: Friday 6th November, 13.15 on Zoom

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are engineering systems that bridge the cyber-world of communications and computing with the physical world. These systems are usually safety-critical and exhibit both discrete and continuous dynamics that may have complex behavior. Typically, these systems have to satisfy given specifications, i.e., properties that define the valid behavior. One commonly used approach to evaluate the correctness of CPSs is testing. The main aim of testing is to detect if there are situations that may falsify the specifications. (more…)

Johan Lidén Eddeland: Falsification of Signal-Based Specifications for Cyber-Physical Systems

Licentiate Seminar: Tuesday 20 January, 10.00 in ED

In the development of software for modern Cyber-Physical Systems, testing is an integral part that is rightfully given a lot of attention. Testing is done on many different abstraction levels, and especially for large-scale industrial systems, it can be difficult to know when the testing should conclude and the software can be considered correct enough for making its way into production. (more…)

Prof. Michel Reniers: Temporal Logic Falsification of Cyber-Physical Systems: An Input-Signal-Space Optimization Approach

Seminar: Thursday 16th of May, 15:15 in EDIT 8103

Temporal logic falsification is a promising approach to model-based testing of cyber-physical systems. It starts off with a formalized system requirement specified as a Metric Temporal Logic (MTL) property. Subsequently, test input signals are generated in order to stimulate the system and produce an output signal. (more…)

David Thönnessen – Testing Safety PLCs with QuickCheck

Seminar: Wednesday 30 February, 13:15 in ED

Testing safety-related industrial systems is usually carried out on the basis of checklists. A tester has a list of scenarios that he manually applies to the system and checks whether the system behaves according to its specification. Operators behave unpredictably. Their behavior may not be covered by the set of scenarios tested and may lead to dangerous situations. To avoid this, randomized test case generation can be useful (more…)

Sajed Mireamdi, Volvo, presented at the 3rd Workshop on Monitoring and Testing of Cyber-Physical Systems (MT-CPS 2018)

At the 3rd Workshop on Monitoring and Testing of Cyber-Physical Systems (MT-CPS 2018), Sajed Miremadi, project leader for the TESTRON project, presented results developed within SyTeC. These results were also reported at the 14th IFAC Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES), by Johan Eddeland, Volvo.

Alexandre Donzé – Simulation-based Techniques for Designing Reliable Cyber-Physical Systems

Seminar: Wednesday 28 February, 13:15 in EL41 (note new time and location)

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are computerized systems interacting with their physical environments. They are prominent in transportation (car, plane, rockets), robotics, internet of things, etc. Control software for CPS has seen a dramatic increase in size and complexity in recent years. (more…)

Ioannis Filippidis – Designing controllers for hybrid systems using TuLiP

Ioannis Filippidis – Decomposing formal specifications into assume-guarantee contracts for hierarchical system design

Seminar: 16 February 2018, 13:15, EL41

The design of complex engineering systems is typically structured hierarchically by specifying individual subsystems, and their interaction. We describe a method to algorithmically decompose a given overall system specification into a contract of realizable component specifications that together implement the given specification. (more…)

Magic Tester – Automated testing in practice

SyTeC has now been part of introducing even more rigorous testing methods in industry. With collaboration in the research project TESTRON, the academically-developed MATLAB toolbox Breach is now being used at Volvo Car Corporation to automatically generate and run test vectors for hybrid and electric vehicle models at the Vehicle Propulsion department. (more…)

Ioannis Filippidis – Guest researcher visiting SyTeC

Dr. Ioannis Filippidis from the California Institute of Technology, will be visiting Chalmers and specifically the SyTeC project as a guest researcher for three weeks from Feb 11, 2018, to March 2, 2018. During Dr. Filippidis’ visit, the primary focus will be on researching formal specification and automatic test case generation for hybrid systems. (more…)

Volvo – 1st Workshop on Automatic Generation of Test Cases for Mechatronic Systems

Workshop: 5 September, 13:00-16:00, Volvo Car Corporation

Members of SyTeC participated in the First Workshop on Automatic Generation of Test Cases for Mechatronic Systems, that was hosted by Volvo Car Corporation. This was a workshop supported by the Vinnova-FFI financed TESTRON project, which is adjoint with SyTeC. (more…)

Angela Wallenburg – Safe and Secure Programming Using SPARK

Seminar: 1 September 2017, 13:15, EA

Sometimes software really has to work. SPARK is a programming language, a verification toolset and a design method which, taken together, ensure that ultra-low defect software can be deployed. By design, the SPARK language is immune to many programming language vulnerabilities (such as those listed by NIST/CWE/SANS). Under the hood, the SPARK static analysis tools use formal verification (automatic mathematical proof). (more…)

CASE 2017 – Special Session on Model-Based Testing of Hybrid Systems

Jan Tretmans – Model-Based Testing: There is Nothing More Practical than a Good Theory

Seminar: 25 April 2017, 13:15, EF

We build ever larger and more complex software systems. Systematic testing plays an important role in assessing the quality of such systems. The effort for testing, however, turns out to grow even faster than the size and complexity of the systems under test themselves.One of the promising testing technologies to detect more bugs faster and cheaper is model-based testing. (more…)