Engineering Software for Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems
Licentiatavhandling, 2021

Designing, implementing, and verifying resilient cyber-physical systems is challenging. Resilience is the ability to provide the required capability when facing adversity. Resilient cyber-physical systems should avoid, withstand, recover from, and evolve and adapt to cope with adversity stemming from computation, networking, or physical environment. From the engineering point of view, the usefulness of such systems is hindered by their lack of ability to adapt and overcome unknown stimuli, ever-changing and conflicting objectives, and deprecated internal components. Software as a tool for self-management is a key instrument for dealing with uncertainty. Yet, engineering software for resilient cyber-physical systems is hard since the effects of operating under the unknown might emerge during the execution, requesting decision-making at runtime rather than design time. Decision-making at runtime should guarantee the satisfaction of system goals, work efficiently to be effectively used in practice, and guarantee the expected quality.
With this in mind, this thesis contributes towards the engineering of software for resilient cyber-physical systems by (i) combining control theory and artificial intelligence for efficient adaptation, (ii) using formal methods for ensuring correctness of control-theoretic software adaptation, and (iii) promoting a language for scenario-based testing autonomous systems. We found that the hybrid approach, combining control theory and artificial intelligence, improves the efficiency of the adaptation mechanism. The results shed light on the interplay between control theory and artificial intelligence as fundaments for engineering resilient cyber-physical systems. Yet, incorporating machine learning and control theory introduces non-deterministic autonomic behavior, posing a challenge for the assurance provision for such tools. On the one hand, we found that the use of formal methods helps to build confidence in software-based controllers. On the other hand, large and complex systems place barriers to the usage of formal methods. Thus, we explore the use of testing and specifically scenario-based testing for validating large and complex cyber-physical systems that are required to operate in complex and unpredictable environments, like autonomous vehicles. In a nutshell, this thesis argues in favor of introducing control theory and artificial intelligence in designing and implementing software-based controllers. Also, we exploit formal methods and testing as instruments for verifying and validating cyber-physical systems.

CSE Jupiter 473
Opponent: Sebastian Elbaum, University of Virginia, USA

Författare

Ricardo Diniz Caldas

Cyber Physical Systems

A hybrid approach combining control theory and AI for engineering self-adaptive systems

Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 15th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems, SEAMS 2020,; (2020)p. 9-19

Paper i proceeding

Towards Mapping Control Theory and Software Engineering Properties using Specification Patterns

2021 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems Companion (ACSOS-C),; (2021)

Paper i proceeding

Body Sensor Network: A Self-Adaptive System Exemplar in the Healthcare Domain

2021 International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS),; (2021)

Paper i proceeding

R. Queiroz, D. Sharma, R. Caldas, K. Czarnecki, S. Garcia, T. Berger, P. Pelliccione “A Driver-Vehicle Model for ADS Scenario-based Testing”

Ämneskategorier

Programvaruteknik

Inbäddad systemteknik

Reglerteknik

Datorsystem

Utgivare

Chalmers

CSE Jupiter 473

Online

Opponent: Sebastian Elbaum, University of Virginia, USA

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2022-11-22