Vehicle Control System Verification Device for Safety Architecture

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing vehicle control system verification technologies do not comprehensively verify safety function requirements and relationships between safety functions, falling short in ensuring the reliability and safety of vehicle control systems.

Innovation Solution

A vehicle control system verification device that comprehensively verifies the safety of design functions based on safety analysis results, including logical and physical architectures, using Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) to ensure safety requirements are met and safety functions cooperate effectively.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If comprehensive verification of safety functions and their relationships is implemented, then safety and reliability of vehicle control system are improved, but verification complexity and time consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesafety and reliability of vehicle control systemVSAvoidverification complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The verification process is divided into distinct modules: safety requirement verification unit that checks individual safety requirements against the model, safety function cooperation verification unit that verifies interactions between safety functions, and automatic generation of verification reports. This segmentation allows comprehensive verification to be performed in manageable, systematic steps rather than as an overwhelming monolithic process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary verification of safety requirements and safety function cooperations during the design phase using formal methods and model checking, before actual implementation and deployment. This preliminary action identifies potential safety issues early in the development process, preventing them from carrying through to production and reducing the need for costly post-deployment verification.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If comprehensive verification of safety functions and their relationships is implemented, then safety and reliability of vehicle control system are improved, but verification time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesafety and reliability of vehicle control systemVSAvoidverification time consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary verification of safety requirements and safety function cooperations during the design phase using formal methods and model checking, before actual implementation and deployment. This preliminary action identifies potential safety issues early in the development process, preventing them from carrying through to production and reducing the need for costly post-deployment verification.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The verification system automatically generates feedback reports that detail the results of safety requirement verification and safety function cooperation verification. This feedback mechanism provides immediate information about verification status, allowing developers to quickly identify and address issues without lengthy manual review processes, thereby reducing overall verification time while maintaining comprehensiveness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentEP3451174B1Vehicle control system verification device, vehicle control system, and vehicle control system verification method
Publication Date: 2022.08.10 ASTEMO LTD
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AI summary

The present invention provides a technology for comprehensive verification of the safety of the design of functions, on the basis of a safety analysis result. The disclosed vehicle control system verification device is equipped with a storage device that stores programs for verifying the safety of the logical architecture of a vehicle control system, and a processor that reads the programs from the storage device and verifies the safety of the logical architecture. On the basis of safety analysis result information that is supplied, the processor executes a process for verifying whether the logical architecture has logical functions corresponding to the safety analysis result.