CESAR

Cost-Efficient Methods and Processes for Safety Relevant Embedded Systems

The embedded safety-critical systems design and development industry is facing increasing complexity and variety of systems and devices, coupled with increasing regulatory constraints while costs, performances and time to market are constantly challenged.
This has led to a profusion of enablers (new processes, methods and tools), which are neither integrated nor interoperable because they have been developed more or less independently, addressing only a part of the complexity issue, such as safety. The absence of internationally recognized open standards is a limiting factor in terms of industrial performance when companies have to select among these enablers.
CESAR will bring significant and conclusive innovations in the two most improvable systems engineering
disciplines:
- Requirements engineering in particular through formalization of multi viewpoint, multi criteria and multi level requirements,
- Component based engineering applied to design space exploration comprising multi-view, multicriteria and multi level architecture trade-offs.
Multi-viewpoint based development processes assure that not only functional aspects but also safety, costs, robustness, timeliness, etc. are captured and documented in a form allowing validation and verification to be performed. Multi-criteria based design processes allow for optimization of designs to multiple objectives functions for such extra-functional characteristics of designs, a key for achieving competitive products. Multi-level design flows cover all stages from initial concepts through
requirements through specification to design and implementation, typically crossing multiple stages in supplier chains. The combination of these aspects will allow movement towards "first-time-right" designs, where the actual integration phases are free of negative surprises.
In addition CESAR intends to provide industrial companies with a breakthrough in system development by deploying a customizable systems engineering 'Reference Technology Platform' (RTP) making it possible to integrate or interoperate existing or emerging available technologies. This will be a significant step forward in terms of industrial performance improvement that will help to establish de-facto standards and contribute to the standardization effort from a European perspective.
Relying on use-cases and scenarios from Aerospace, Automotive, Automation and Railway, CESAR is strongly industry driven.
Benefiting from this multi-domains point of views, CESAR addresses safety aspects of transportation and other societal mobility and environmental demands.

 

Coordinatore

AVL List GmbH (Austria)

 

Other participants

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA

  • Ingegneria dell'Energia Elettrica e dell'Informazione "Guglielmo Marconi" - DEI
  • Resp. Scientifico: Prof. Lorenzo Marconi

AIRBUS Deutschland GmbH (Germany)
AIRBUS SAS (France)
ABB AS (Norway)
ABB AS (Sweden)
AbsInt Angewandte Informatik GmbH (Germany)
ACCIONA Infraestructuras S.A. (Spain)
Ansaldo STS S.p.A. (Italy)
ASTRIUM SAS (France)
AIRBUS UK Limited (UK)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (France)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-CNRS (France)
Centro Ricerche Fiat S.C.p.A. (Italy)
Critical Software S.A. (Portugal)
Danieli Automation S.p.A. (Italy)
Delphi France SAS (France)
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (Germany)
Dassault Systemes (France)
EADS Deutschland GmbH – Defence Electronics EADS (Germany)
EADS Deutschland GmbH IW (Germany)
ELSAG DATAMAT (Italy)
Fundación European Software Insitute ESI-Tecnalia (Spain)
ESTEREL Technologies SA (France)
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung
der Angewandten Forschung e.V. (Germany)
Formal Software Construction Limited (UK)
Geensys (France)
Hellenic Aerospace Industry S.A. (Greece)
Infineon Technologies AG (Austria)
Infineon Technologies AG (Germany)
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique-INRIA (France)
ATHENA - Industrial Systems Institute (Greece)
Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (Sweden)
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
National Technical University of Athens (Greece)
OFFIS e. V. (Germany)
Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales-ONERA (France)
BTC - Embedded Systems AG (Germany)
Oxford University (UK)
Sagem Défense Sécurité (France)
AleniaSIA S.p.A. (Italy)
Siemens AG (Germany)
SINTEF Stiftelsen (Norway)
Quintec Associates-Thales Consulting and Engineering (UK)
Thales Communications S.A. (France)
Thales Avionics S.A. (France)
Thales TRT (France)
The University of Manchester (UK)
Universita' degli Studi di Trieste (Italy)
The Virtual Vehicle Competence Center-ViF (Austria)
Volvo Technology Corporation (Sweden)
Hispano-Suiza S.A. (France)
Messier-Bugatti S.A. (France)
TURBOMECA (France)
SNECMA S.A. (France)
Geensoft (France)
Selex Sistemi Integrati (Italy)

 

Start date 01/03/2009

End date 29/02/2012

Duration 36 months

Project Reference 100016

Project cost 58.534.998 EURO

Project Funding 28.317.088 EURO

Subprogramme Area ARTEMIS -SP3: Methods and processes for safety-relevant embedded systems

Contract type ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking