Innovation project AutoS²

Automatic evaluation and monitoring of safety & security properties for intelligent technical systems

Initial situation in machine safety

In practice, however, automatic reconfiguration has not yet been used, or hardly at all. The reason for this is that reconfiguration of a production plant always requires renewed safety certification. This includes both information security ("Security") with a risk and threat analysis according to IEC 62443, as well as functional safety ("Safety") with a risk assessment according to IEC 61508 or ISO 12100. These analysis and certifications are costly and are currently performed manually by experts. The increase in efficiency and the time savings that basically result from automatic reconfiguration technologies are strongly relativized by this circumstance and very often even equalized.

 

The project

In the AutoS² research project, (i) requirements for the automation of risk assessment are identified and (ii) a possible semantics for the administration shell (AAS) is defined and implemented. The third building block is the (iii) implementation of an assessment algorithm that performs the risk assessment in an automated way.

In doing so, the foundations for an automated assessment system of safety & security properties that are relevant for adaptive production and intelligent technical systems will be created. For this purpose, the information required for an automated safety assessment will be determined, standardized and expressed in machine-readable form. The collected characteristics for Safety & Security will be automatically monitored and evaluated by AI-based algorithms.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are expected to benefit most of all. This is because they often cannot afford their own specialists with the necessary safety and security expertise.

Profile

Project title: AutoS²
Runtime: 33 Months
Promotion:

it's OWL Technology Network

State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy (MWIDE)

Project partner: Phoenix Contact Electronics GmbH
TÜV SÜD Product Service GmbG
Technische Hochschule OWL
Destination: Automation of risk assessment for machine safety

Publications

Ehrlich, Marco; Benk, Stefan; Harder, Dimitri; Kleen, Philip; Trsek, Henning; Schriegel, Sebastian; Jasperneite, Jürgen: Automatische Bewertung und Überwachung von Safety & Security Eigenschaften – Strukturierung und Ausblick. In: Kommunikation in der Automation (KommA 2020), Lemgo, Oct 2020

 

Project start AutoS²

AutoS² project launch. The it's OWL innovation project is designed to enable intelligent technical systems to independently describe their safety properties. An algorithm continuously evaluates the safety status of the...

 

Successfully applied

CIIT working group identifies research needs, reviewers agree and approve the research project. Together with our research partners Phoenix Contact, TÜV SÜD and TH OWL, we have applied to the leading-edge cluster "it's OWL" with...