Incorporation of Autonomous Model Analytics for Avionic System Design into Standard Framework for Integrated Engineering
Carlos C. Insaurralde · 2021
Several computer tools exist to develop High-Integrity Avionics Systems (HIAS). The plethora and diversity of tools are good to provide variety to support the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), but they require extra efforts to interconnect tools to make use of tool results in a systematic way. The variety of tools comes along with stakeholders working on diverse models of the same HIAS under development for which developers must wait for others to get notifications of model changes so updates can be considered by other models from tools. Such a deadlock unfortunately increases risks and costs. Some initiatives such as the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) standard have made efforts to connect different tools with each other along the SDLC. They provide a framework to facilitate integration and interoperation of computer tools but do not deal with the above deadlock problem. This paper discusses technical aspects and business impact to incorporate model analytics by means of a design process based on autonomously crosschecked models of avionic systems. The approach is meant to make easy the verification of models from the same HIAS. The OSLC initiative provides an attractive chance to explore considerations and investigate technological details to implement a plugin model-analytics capability in the OSLC cloud. This paper also presents a research discussion on challenges and opportunities, including relevant topics such as aviation certification standards. Concluding remarks, recommendations, and future research are presented as well.