Title
Software Fault Tolerance For Cyber-Physical Systems Via Full System Restart
Abstract
The article addresses the issue of reliability of complex embedded control systems in the safety-critical environment. In this article, we propose a novel approach to design controller that (i) guarantees the safety of nonlinear physical systems, (ii) enables safe system restart during runtime, and (iii) allows the use of complex, unverified controllers (e.g., neural networks) that drive the physical systems toward complex specifications. We use abstraction-based controller synthesis approach to design a formally verified controller that provides application and system-level fault tolerance along with safety guarantee. Moreover, our approach is implementable using a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) processing unit. To demonstrate the efficacy of our solution and to verify the safety of the system under various types of faults injected in applications and in the underlying real-time operating system (RTOS), we implemented the proposed controller for the inverted pendulum and three degrees-of-freedom (3-DOF) helicopter.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3407183
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Cyber-physical systems, fault-tolerance, full system restart, nonlinear systems, abstraction-based control
Journal
4
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
2378-962X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jagtap Pushpak1297.74
Fardin Abdi200.34
Matthias Rungger310513.44
Zamani, M.410031.24
Marco Caccamo5136371.06