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Simulations are widely used in the engineering workflow of complex mechatronic embedded systems in various domains, such as healthcare, railway, automotive and aerospace, for analyzing, testing and validating purposes. This paper focuses on the development and test of the control software of complex mechatronic embedded systems from the perspective of software interfaces (e.g., driver APIs) and presents a systematic approach for testing the control software during the various stages of an engineering process. Since we assume that the physical (hardware) components of an under-control plant could be replaced with simulation models, various kinds of in-the-loop simulations, ranging from MiL to HiL, can be consequently acquired. Additionally, we present a mathematical model of MESes required to formally describe the approach and also a healthcare case study to which our approach was applied.
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In this work, our focus is on the software part of a MES’s control than on the entire control unit.
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This work was supported in part by the European Union’s ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking for CRYSTAL (Critical System Engineering Acceleration) under grant agreement No. 332830.
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Soltani Nezhad, A., Lukkien, J.J., Mak, R.H., Verhoeven, R., van den Heuvel, M.M.H.P. (2016). An Approach for Systematic In-the-Loop Simulations for Development and Test of a Complex Mechatronic Embedded System. In: Skavhaug, A., Guiochet, J., Schoitsch, E., Bitsch, F. (eds) Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security. SAFECOMP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9923. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45480-1_11
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