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SAFE-P: System for Assurance of Flight Executable Procedures
Title: Principal Investigator
Phone: (763) 449-9373
Email: musliner@sift.info
Title: Vice President
Phone: (612) 578-7438
Email: hfunk@sift.info
Problem:
Ensuring that command execution scripts do not deviate from Standard
Operating Procedures (SOPs) is time-consuming, costly, and
error-prone. Deviations can be inefficient or hazardous.
Solution:
We propose to design and develop SAFE-P, an interactive tool to ensure
conformance between command scripts and procedures, or guide users to
clarify their rationale for deviations. Using semantic differencing
and formal verification of bisimulation relations, SAFE-P will ensure
that the scripts comply with SOPs and will highlight differences for
the operators, so that they can double-check their work and confirm
any deviations from standard procedures.
SAFE-P's design will begin with relatively simple syntactic mechanisms
to find differences between command sequences and textual procedures
that can be applied directly to current flight control practices,
including the use of SOPs captured in simple XML or PDF files and
command scripts in ThinLayer. To reduce false error detection and
assess the criticality of differences, we will incorporate knowledge
of the space platform's architecture.
For future missions, we will extend SAFE-P to richer languages (PRL,
PLEXIL, SCL) and employ more complex verification of
program-equivalence relationships (bisimulation) to ensure conformance
between scripts and procedures.
* Information listed above is at the time of submission. *