International audienceToday, new technologies (distributed systems, networks communication) are more and more integrated for applications needing to fit real-time and critical constraints. It means that we require more and more to integrate these new technology-based components in systems or sub-systems dedicated to safety or dealing with a high level of criticality. Control systems are generally evaluated as a function of required performances (overshoot, rising time, response time) under the condition to respect a stability condition. Reliability evaluation of such systems is not trivial, because generally classical methods do not take into account time and dynamic properties which are the bases of control systems. The methodology proposed in this paper deals with an approach for the dependability evaluation of control systems, based on Monte-Carlo simulation, giving a contribution to the integration of automatic control and dependability constraints

this paper presents a framework to enable the analysis of the influence of the transmission faults on the reliability of a networked control system (NCS). The approach is composed of two parts: a modelling part in which all the basic components of a networked control system are modelled and a simulation part in which simulation is done on the models to evaluate the reliability. Due to external perturbations transmission faults may occur on the medium decreasing network quality of service and system performance. These aspects are difficult to assess with traditional dependability method like fault trees and reliability blocks. Our approach is applied to a case study example. The results show that our framework is an effective way for the reliability evaluation of networked control systems (Copyright IFAC 2008).

The validation of network systems is mandatory to guarantee the dependability levels, that international standard impose in many safety-critical applications. This article presents a framework for the dependability evaluation of a networked control system (NCS) taking into account the network behaviour when transition faults occurs. CAN-based systems are studied and a proposed method is described with an example.

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