Application of a MBSA Approach on a Representative Subsystem of EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service)
摘要
RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Safety) are crucial disciplines in the space industry. As in other fields (e.g. air traffic management, aeronautics, rail, etc.), space systems or systems-of-systems are becoming increasingly complex, leading to increasingly complex safety assessments, with the growing difficulty of ensuring the completeness and integrity of analyses. Faced with this increasing complexity, a more sophisticated safety approach is required, which has led to the need to experiment Model-Based Safety Analysis (MBSA) at Thales Alenia Space. In the aim of evaluating the interest and added value of a MBSA approach, a benchmark, on the static aspects, of two commercially available MBSA tools, Cecilia Workshop (Satodev) and System Analyst (Thales), has been performed on a representative subsystem of EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service), the European SBAS (Satellite-Based Augmentation Systems). This article briefly introduces the scope and objectives of the activities performed by Thales Alenia Space. Then, it focuses on the methodology used: the case study, the two MBSA tools, the subsystem modeling principles for both tools, and the evaluation strategy. Furthermore, it presents the results: (i) a comparison of Cecilia Workshop outputs versus System Analyst outputs (ii) tool evaluation matrix synthesis. Finally, we conclude with the next steps identified to ultimately implement a MBSA approach on SBAS-type projects.