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Formal Verification of PLC Programs Using the B Method

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Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B, VDM, and Z (ABZ 2012)

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In this paper we propose an approach to verify PLC programs, a common platform to control systems in the industry. Programs written in the languages of the IEC 61131-3 standard are automatically translated to B machines and are then amenable to formal analysis of safety constraints and general structural properties of the application. This approach thus integrates formal methods into existing industrial processes.

Project supported by ANP. CNPq grants 560014/2010-4 and 573964/2008-4 (National Institute of Science and Technology for Software Engineering—INES, www.ines.org.br ).

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  1. Departamento de Informática e Matemática Aplicada, UFRN, Brazil

    Haniel Barbosa & David Déharbe

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, S1 4DP, Sheffield, UK

    John Derrick

  2. Newcastle University, UK

    John Fitzgerald

  3. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “A. Faedo”, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Stefania Gnesi

  4. Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C5000, 78712-0240, Austin, TX, USA

    Sarfraz Khurshid

  5. Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, Germany

    Michael Leuschel

  6. Department of Computer Science, The University of Waikato, 3240, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Steve Reeves

  7. Department of Information Technology, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Bramante 65, 26013, Crema, Italy

    Elvinia Riccobene

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Barbosa, H., Déharbe, D. (2012). Formal Verification of PLC Programs Using the B Method. In: Derrick, J., et al. Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B, VDM, and Z. ABZ 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7316. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30885-7_30

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