Diagnosis of Safety Incidents for Cyber-Physical Systems: A UAV Example

Ehsan Zibaei, Sebastian Banescu, Alexander Pretschner

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Abstract

As capabilities of cyber-physical systems (CPS) increase, the interaction of software and physical components becomes more complicated. When a CPS encounters an incident, the increased complexity makes diagnosis a challenging task for traditional diagnostic approaches. To overcome this problem, we split the diagnostic procedure into three steps, namely: (1) type causality, (2) detection and (3) actual causality analyses. We then utilize various technologies to automate each step. Fault trees are extracted from the four variable model of a CPS. This results in modular and human-readable fault trees. Moreover, CPS logs are mapped to the instances of the fault tree nodes using time series analysis techniques. Through examples of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), we demonstrate that our framework can diagnose a wide range of scenarios including software, sensor, and actuator failures.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2018 3rd International Conference on System Reliability and Safety, ICSRS 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages120-129
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781728102382
DOIs
StatePublished - 11 Apr 2019
Event3rd International Conference on System Reliability and Safety, ICSRS 2018 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 24 Nov 201826 Nov 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2018 3rd International Conference on System Reliability and Safety, ICSRS 2018

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference on System Reliability and Safety, ICSRS 2018
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period24/11/1826/11/18

Keywords

  • automated diagnosis
  • causality
  • cyber-physical systems
  • fault tree analysis
  • safety

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