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Systematic Generation of PLC-based Design from Formal Software Requirements (정형 소프트웨어 요구사항으로부터 PLC 디자인의 체계적 생성)

  • Yoo Junbeom;Cha Sungdeok;Kim Chang Hui;Song Deokyong
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.108-118
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    • 2005
  • The software of the nuclear power plant digital control system is a safety-critical system where many techniques must be applied to it in order to preserve safety in the whole system. Formal specifications especially allow the system to be clearly and completely specified in the early requirements specification phase, therefore making it a trusted method for increasing safety. In this paper, we discuss a systematic method, which generates PLC-based FBD programs from the requirements specification using NuSCR, a formal requirements specification method. This FBD programs takes an important position in design specification. The proposed method can reduce the possible errors occur in the manual design specification, and the software development cost and time. To investigate the usefulness of our proposed method, we introduce the fixed set-point rising trip example, a trip logic of BP in DPPS RPS, which is presently being developed at KNICS.

Development of Certification Program for Application Service Provider : Application Certification (ASP 인증제도 개발 : 어플리케이션 인증)

  • Seo Kwang Kyu
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.97-108
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    • 2005
  • The issue of using information system to ensure competitive power in the market is rising. The outsourcing methods that entrust activities of information system of companies to other expert agencies are increasing as the enterprises make a lot of efforts to put their resources to their heart of business in the process of adopting information system. Recently, ASP (Application Service Provider) as new information technology outsourcing method appears due to development of network technology and spreading of peculating software. ASP defines as a software leasing service which is supplied through networks instead of purchasing application software with high price. For successful implementation of ASP, it is necessary to develop a certification program to ensure safety and reliability of ASP. This paper provides the safe and reliable certification program for ASP. In order to develop it, the critical issues related to service quality and certification of ASP are identified and then evaluation methodology for ASP certification program is proposed. This paper presents application certification as the part of ASP certification program.

A Study on the Analytic Technique Combination and Evaluation of Development Process for Software Safety (S/W 안전성을 위한 분석기법 조합과 개발 프로세스 평가에 대한 연구)

  • Lee, Young-Soo;Ahn, Jin;Ha, Seung-Tea;Cho, Woo-Sik;Han, Chan-Hee
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2006.11b
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    • pp.1468-1476
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    • 2006
  • The goal of this thesis is to support safety and reliability characteristics of software intensive critical systems. The verification method developed is innovative from current state of the art in what concerns the verification viewpoint adopted: focusing on software faults, and not, like many other approaches purely on fulfilling functional requirements. As a first step and based on a number of well defined criteria a comparison was made of available literature in the area of static non formal non probabilistic software fault removal techniques. But, None of the techniques evaluated fulfilled all criteria set in isolation. Therefore a new technique was developed based on a combination of two existing techniques: the FMEA and FTA. These two techniques complement each other very well. It is possible to integrate both techniques with commonly used techniques at system level. The resulting new technique can be shown to combine nearly all aspects of existing fault removal techniques.

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Application of Software Quality Model and Metric for Software Product Assurance for KASS Control Station (KASS 통합운영국 소프트웨어 품질 보증을 위한 소프트웨어 품질 모델 및 메트릭 적용방안)

  • Kim, Youn-sil;Lee, Eun-sung
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.28-36
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    • 2020
  • Korea augmentation satellite system (KASS) is the Korean satellite based augmentation system (SBAS) developed by ministry of land, infrastructure, and transport (MOLIT) since 2014. Since KASS is the safety critical system that can affect to the safety of airplane, the software of KASS is developed according to the DO178B software level induced from safety analysis. In case of KASS control station (KCS), most of the software of KCS get assigned software level E in DO178B. In that case, ECSS-Q-ST-80C category D is assigned as a software product assurance standard. In this paper, the software related standard ECSS-E-ST-40C, ECSS-Q-HB-80-04A are analyzed to satisfy ECSS-Q-ST-80C and as a result the software product assurance activities regarding software life cycle and the software quality model, metric is proposed for the product assurance of the KCS software.

Study of Avionic Software Development Model & Testing Design Methods (항공용 소프트웨어 개발 모델 및 테스팅 설계 기법에 관한 연구)

  • Youn, Wonkeun;Yi, Baeckjun;Jin, Youngkwon
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.58-64
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    • 2013
  • The paper presents the comprehensive studies of ISTQB(International Software Testing Qualification Board) for the reliable software development system in term of various aspects. It is critical to understand how the software testing is achieved is to efficiently manage the development process, to reduce the development cost, and to ultimately ensure the safety of the entire software system. This study may provide an enriched understanding about the rationale and true intent the behind software development model and testing design methods of ISTQB on software developer, test analysts, test engineers. In addition, this paper may serve as a useful supplementary material for the avionic engineers to establish the new regulations in avionic industries.

Analysis of Interlocking Functions using Gragcet Language (Grafcet을 이용한 연동로직 분석)

  • Hwang, Jong-Gyu;Lee, Jong-Woo;Lee, Jae-Ho;Choi, Gyu-Hyung
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1999.07a
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    • pp.471-473
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    • 1999
  • Recently, the computer based control systems instead of conventional relays circuitry are widely used to industrial applications, and also those technology is available to railway signaling which are safety-critical systems. However, the safety and reliability of software for those systems are harder to demonstrate than in traditional relays circuitry because the faults or errors can not be analyzed and predicted to those systems. So, the safety problems are crucial more and more in computer based control system. In this paper, the GRAFCET(GRAphe Fonctionnel do Commande Etape/Transition) language is used as a analysis and verification tool for safety-critical interlocking logic. The general description for Grafcet notation are provided and the general modeling for interlocking logic is presented.

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Reliability Analysis for Train Control System by Software Fault Tolerance Techniques (소프트웨어 결함허용 기법에 의한 열차제어시스템 신뢰도 분석)

  • Suh, Seog-Chul;Lee, Jong-Woo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.1043-1048
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    • 2009
  • PES (Programmable Electronic System) is used by software development for the train control system. PES has been widely used in real world and consists of hardware, firmware and application software. The PES are easily apply to many applications because its implementation has high flexibility. Many safety critical functions are realized through software in safety critical system. Normally, it is difficult to detect failures for PES system because the PES is too sophisticated to identify sources of the failure. So, the reliability analysis is needed by using software fault tolerance techniques. Currently, there are the recovery block, distributed recovery block, N-version programming, N self-checking programming in fault tolerance techniques. In this paper, the models of recovery block and N-version programming in software fault tolerance techniques are suggested by using the Markov model. Also, the reliability in the train control system is analyzed through changing time. The fault occupancy rates of the program, adjustment test and voter are stationary. So, the relation between time and reliability is presented by using Matlab program. In the result of reliability, the reliability of recovery block is more high than N-version programming in case of the same number of substitution block.

Evaluation of Software Diagnostics for Secure Operational Environment in Nuclear I&C systems (원전 계측제어 시스템 보안성환경을 위한 진단기능 평가)

  • Yoo, Sung Goo;Seul, Namo
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.53 no.8
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    • pp.107-112
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    • 2016
  • Safety Critical Instrumentation and Control Systems perform those functions to maintain nuclear power plants' parameters within acceptable limits established for a design basis events and anticipated operating occurrence to ensure safety function. Those digitalized systems shall protect inadvertent and non-malicious behavior to ensure the reliable operation of systems, known as a Secure Development and Operational Environment(SDOE). SDOE would be established through managerial and technical controls. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of Cyclic Redundancy Checksum diagnostic, which is one of technical controls for SDOE, that can confirm the integrity of software of I&C systems to establish the secure environment. The results of this assessment would be the practical implementation of design and safety review of nuclear I&C systems.