Verification of railway interlocking systems

Verification of railway interlocking systems

In the railway domain, an interlocking is the system ensuring a safe train traffic inside a station by controlling its active elements such as the switches or the signals. Modern interlockings are configured using particular data, called application data, reflecting the topology of the station and defining the actions that the interlocking can take. The safety of the train traffic relies thereb...

Automated Verification of Signalling Principles in Railway Interlocking Systems

In this paper we present a verification strategy for signalling principles for the control of a railway interlocking system written in ladder logic. All translation steps have been implemented and tested on a real-world example of a railway interlocking system. The steps in this translation are as follows: 1. The development of a mathematical model of a railway interlocking system and the trans...

Model Checking Railway Interlocking Systems

For supporting the analysis of railway interlocking systems in the early stage of their design we propose the use of model checking. We investigate the use of the formal modelling language CSP and the corresponding model checker FDR. In this paper, we describe the basics of this formalism and introduce our formal model of a railway interlocking system. Checking this model against the given safe...

Verification of Railway Interlocking - Compositional Approach with OCRA

In the railway domain, an electronic interlocking is a computerised system that controls the railway signalling components (e.g. switches or signals) in order to allow a safe operation of the train traffic. Interlockings are controlled by a software logic that relies on a generic software and a set of application data particular to the station under control. The verification of the application ...

Modelling Interlocking Systems for Railway Stations