For thermometers, sewing machines and cars the embedded software revolution gained momentum at a time too early to realise the lock-in problem. For more innovative products, such as light electric vehicles, there is a natural opportunity for doing things different. But vehicles transporting people are safety-critical: fiddling with an e-suspension software does not seem a good idea, unless the fiddler is supported by tools helping to understand the physics implications and software limitations. The POWVER project has explored precisely that. It has developed modern computer-assisted verification technology to provide a basis for unlocking the electric mobility of the future, set up as a blueprint for other more general appliances.
At the technical core of POWVER is quantitative verification. This is a branch of computer science research that bridges deep foundational investigations with tool-oriented and applied development of embedded systems. It enables formal and automated reasoning about aspects of embedded software related to time, continuous dynamics, probabilities, or costs. It has seen rapid advances in academia and research over the past decades.
Read on to learn about POWVER Quantitative Verification.