Project Overview for Step-Up!CPS - Process, Methods and Technologies for Updating Safety-critical Cyber-physical Systems
Thomas Strathmann,Georg Hake, Houssem Guissouma; Carl Philipp Hohl, Yosab Bebawy, Sebastian Vander Maelen, Andrew Koerner
2021 Design, Automation Test in Europe Conference Exhibition (DATE)
We describe the challenges addressed by the three year German national collaborative research project Step-Up!CPS that is currently in its third year. The goal of the project is to develop software methods and technologies for modular updates of safety-critical cyber-physical systems. To make this possible, contracts are utilized, which formally describe the behaviour of an update and make it verifiable at different times of the update life cycle. We have defined a development process that allows for a continuous improvement of such systems by monitoring their operation, identifying the need for updates, and development and deploying these updates in a safe and secure manner. We highlight the points along the update process that are necessary for a secure update and show how we counteract them in a contractually secured update process.
07 / 2021
inproceedings
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
1326-1329
Step-Up!CPS
Software Methods and Technologies for Modular Updates of Cyber-Physical Systems
Software Methods and Technologies for Modular Updates of Cyber-Physical Systems
