AADL in Military Aircraft Systems Engineering
EADS, the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company, is using AADL to model the Weapon Systems Reference Architecture for the Eurofighter (pdf, 607 kb). In this project, EADS uses AADL to define several protocol layers concisely. With AADL, EADS has found
- It avoided putting constraints on the actual physical architecture while defining an abstract physical architecture.
- AADL modes were a useful means to model the dynamic connectivity of their system.
- AADL captured the dynamism of the system at different levels of refinement without compromising predictability.