Formal Modeling and Analysis of a Preliminary Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS)Concept - Paperback

by Nasa Technical Reports Server (Ntrs) (Created by), Et Al (Created by), Victor A. Carreno (Author)

New concepts for automating air traffic management functions at small non-towered airports raise serious safety issues associated with the software implementations and their underlying key algorithms. The criticality of such software systems necessitates that strong guarantees of the safety be developed for them. In this paper we present a formal method for modeling and verifying such systems using the PVS theorem proving system. The method is demonstrated on a preliminary concept of operation for the Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) project at NASA Langley.