IDD: Integrating Diagnosis in the Design of automotive systems

In this paper we overview the achievement of the IDD European projects, which aims at defining a new framework for design of automotive systems. In particular, starting from the weakness of the current design process, especially as regards issues related to diagnosis (diagnosability analysis, generation of the FMEA – Failure Mode Effect Analysis, generation of on-board diagnostic rule), the project aims at defining a new process in which this issues are integrated in the core part of the design of system and of its control strategies. The project also aims at defining and implementing a software toolkit supporting this new design process, toolkit which integrates modules for design and simulation (e.g., Matlab Simulink) and model-based reasoning