Hazard Analysis of Collision Avoidance System using STPA

Summary, in English

As our society becomes more and more dependent on IT systems, failures of these systems can harm more and more people and organizations both public and private. Diligently performing risk and hazard analysis helps to minimize the societal harms of IT system failures. In this paper we present experiences gained by applying the System Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) method for hazard analysis on a forward collision avoidance system. Our main objectives are to investigate effectiveness in terms of the number and quality of identified hazards, and time efficiency in terms of required efforts of the studied method. Based on the findings of this study STPA has proved to be an effective and efficient hazard analysis method for assessing the safety of a safety-critical system and it requires a moderate level of effort.

• Author: Sardar Muhammad Sulaman; Taimoor Abbas; Krzysztof Wnuk; Martin Höst
• Department/s: Department of Computer Science; Department of Electrical and Information Technology; ELLIIT: the Linköping-Lund initiative on IT and mobile communication; Software Engineering Research Group
• Publishing year: 2014
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: ISCRAM 2014 Conference Proceeding : 11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
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• Links: http://idl.iscram.org/files/sulaman/2014/982_Sulaman_etal2014.pdf
• Document type: Conference paper
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University
• Topic: Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering; Computer Science
• Keywords: Hazard analysis; risk analysis; STPA; forward collision; safety critical
• Conference name: International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2014)
• Conference date: 2014-05-19 - 2014-05-21
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISBN: 978-069221194-6