Abstract
Sensors and actuators are critical components of
several embedded systems (ES) and can trigger the incidence
of catastrophic events 1-3. Sensor and actuator faults detection
is difficult 2, 3 and impacts critically the system performance.
While integrating sensors and actuators with the rest of (sub)
system, there is a need to identify all failure modes and rectify
them. Several researchers have addressed software integration
issues 6, 7; however sensors and actuators integration issues
were not addressed so far. This paper focuses on the problem
of integration testing of sensors and actuators in ES.
A fault model, applicable to both sensors and
actuators is proposed based on embedded system model in 12
and some of the observed faults are described. They are similar
to the control flow and data flow faults 10. The integration
testing of sensor / actuator within ES is the problem of
diagnosing faulty machine in a sequence of two CFSM 11.
For solving the diagnostic methodology 13 is used. The
integration testing of sensors / actuators is a subset of general
diagnostic problem. The sensor/actuator integration method
is described with an example and shows that solution exists for
the case of integration. Manifestation of faults in real interfaces
is described from integration point of view.
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