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Specification
Translate complex system goals into precise, testable, and verifiable requirements.
Flight control software • formal methods • verification
Design and verification in flight control software.
A niche area where controls, software design, formal specification, and verification come together to create safer, more reliable aerospace technologies for the future.
- Safety-critical systems
- Formal specification
- Verification-led development
Core focus
Flight
control software
Formal
methods & proofs
Safety
by design
Precision in requirements and verification is the difference between reliability and risk.
Why this matters
Why formal methods?
Safety in aviation is one of the most important issues of the day. Software at all levels plays a major role in this area due to increasing automation in flight control, flight management, and air traffic control.
Increasing pressure for faster product releases often leads to critical bugs. In aerospace, avionics software that is mission critical cannot be left to chance. Guidance from space and aviation agencies provides detailed safety properties that can only be guaranteed through precise requirements and proper design using proven, mathematically grounded formal methods.
A practical perspective
Not a new idea
Formal methods are the disciplined use of mathematics to make software requirements precise so that desired system properties can be reasoned about with confidence. They have been widely used in domains such as VLSI verification and are increasingly relevant in cyber-physical systems.
Bridging progress in research with practical applications such as avionics and distributed ledger technologies is a niche area with a clear need for advancement. The path forward depends on closer collaboration between industry and state-of-the-art research tools.
What we deliver
Focused capabilities for high-assurance systems
02
Design
Develop robust architectures and control logic with safety and maintainability in mind.
03
Verification
Use formal and automated techniques to validate behavior and reduce uncertainty.
Let’s build safer systems