Projects¶

PCA Pump¶

In a Department of Homeland Security research project, SAnToS researchers worked with Adventium Labs to develop an open source medical device platform and a Patient Controlled Analgesic Pump built using the platform. Much of the functionality of the PCA Pump has already been implemented in the Slang Embedded development framework.

This project will enhance the existing PCA Pump infrastructure by:

• adding real-time annotations in AADL suitable for getting the project to run through the AADL schedulability analysis tools,
• developing a deployment of the pump function on the STM 32 and Free RTOS development boards
• developing hardware interfaces for sensors and actuators for the Open PCA Pump

The overall focus for this project is developing interfaces for realistic sensors and actuators and getting the real-time aspects of the PCA pump figured out.

Mine Water Pump Monitoring and Controlling¶

This is a well-known example with the formal methods and real-time systems community and is presented in detail in the book “Analyzeable Real-Time Systems: Programmed in Ada” by Alan Burns and Andy Wellings. In the book, models (but not in AADL) of the system are presented, and implementations are given in Ada.

This project will adapt the mine control implementation from the Burns and Wellings book by:

• Re-working the modeling of the example in AADL
• Adding real-time time annotations to AADL, following the detailed specifications in the Burns and Wellings book
• Developing mocked-up sensors and actuators for the example to be controlled through the STM32 board (sensors: CO2, Methane, water levels, water flows; actuators: water pump, etc.)
• Developing an operator interface for the example

Isolette¶

This is an example used to illustrate proper engineering of requirements in the FAA Requirements Engineering Management Handbook that we have used previously in the course.

This is a slightly smaller example, and the work will come from expanding it in several directions, including having one or more communication interfaces associated with it.

Slang Embedded¶