학술논문

Structural Coverability for Intelligent Automation Systems
Document Type
Conference
Source
2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on. :1-6 Aug, 2023
Subject
Robotics and Control Systems
Intelligent automation
Analytical models
Computer aided software engineering
Message passing
Jitter
Behavioral sciences
Planning
Language
ISSN
2161-8089
Abstract
In order to be flexible and handle complex scenarios, intelligent automation systems might benefit from automated planning techniques which rely on specifications and models describing their behavior. However, due to the presence of message passing, latency, jitter, timeouts, failures, and error handling, the verification of such behavior models using formal methods is often unfeasible. Therefore, testing has emerged as an approach to evaluating the behavior of intelligent automation systems. This paper presents a way to analyze structural coverability of behavior models for intelligent automation systems, which is inspired by the modified condition/decision coverage (MC/DC) criterion. This is paired with a testing procedure that enables each test case to influence both the controller and the simulated environment by injecting some specific state. As a result, the proposed coverability criterion can effectively identify segments of the behavior model that have not been adequately tested and suggest additional test cases to improve coverability. An example use case is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach.