Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2025, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (11): 3802-3815.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2025.11.27

• Guidance, Navigation and Control • Previous Articles    

Safety analysis of civil aircraft fly-by-wire system based on SysML2NuSMV

Kang LAI, Zhong LU, Dawei CHENG, Weirun MIAO   

  1. College of Civil Aviation,Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,Nanjing 211106,China
  • Received:2024-06-03 Online:2025-11-25 Published:2025-12-08
  • Contact: Zhong LU

Abstract:

To solve the problem of excessive reliance on the experience of analysts in the safety analysis of traditional fly-by-wire (FBW) flight systems, a model-based safety analysis method by comprehensively using system modeling language (SysML) and new symbolic model verifier (NuSMV) to describe system behavior is proposed. Firstly, a nominal model and fault model of the FBW system are established using SysML, and a fault information extraction method based on SysML is proposed. Then, establish mapping rules between SysML and NuSMV models, and use the extracted fault information to automatically generate a NuSMV model that describes the system fault behavior. Finally, the security analysis of the FBW system is achieved through model checking. This method avoids reliance on personnel skills and experience, and the security analysis results are directly generated by the design model. When the design scheme is modified, the security analysis results can be automatically updated to avoid the tedious work caused by re conducting security analysis.

Key words: safety analysis, system modeling language (SysML), new symbolic model verifier (NuSMV), model-checking, fly-by-wire (FBW) system

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