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An integrated System Development Approach for Mobile 

Machinery in consistence with Functional Safety Requirements 

Dipl.-Ing. Erik Lautner 

HYDAC System GmbH, MSC Entwicklungsbüro Berlin, Zum Kiesberg 16, 14979 Großbeeren 

(bei Berlin), Germany, E-mail: erik.lautner@hydac.com 

Dipl.-Ing. Daniel Körner 

HYDAC System GmbH, MSC Entwicklungsbüro Berlin, Zum Kiesberg 16, 14979 Großbeeren 

(bei Berlin), Germany, E-mail: daniel.koerner@hydac.com 

Abstract

The article identifies the challenges during the system and specifically the software 

development process for safety critical electro-hydraulic control systems by using the 

example of the hydrostatic driveline with a four speed transmission of a feeder mixer.  

An optimized development approach for mobile machinery has to fulfill all the 

requirements according to the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC, considering functional 

safety, documentation and testing requirements from the beginning and throughout the 

entire machine life cycle. 

The functionality of the drive line control could be verified in advance of the availability 

of a prototype by using a “software-in-the-loop” development approach, based on a 

MATLAB/SIMULINK model of the drive line in connection with the embedded software. 

KEYWORDS:  Functional Safety, Safety Related Development, V-Model, Modular 

Software Design, Testability, Software Test, Software-in-the-loop 

1. Introduction 

A contemporary development process for mobile machinery control systems has to 

include all necessary steps to comply with the increased safety requirements according 

to the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC /1/. To be able to fulfill state of the art control 

systems safety requirements, it is necessary to consider the safety requirements right 

from the beginning and to look at the system with its different elements in its entirety.  

Besides the big challenges fulfilling the safety requirements in view of the electro-

hydraulic system architecture, the development of the embedded control software is 

exceptionally challenging. A specific focus and a high effort during the development 

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process are particularly related to the extensively enhanced documentation and testing 

requirements, which are often not directly linked to the development process. 

The development process of safety critical systems and specifically of embedded 

software for mobile machinery has become a high complexity under consideration of the 

Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC /1/ requirements. For this reason an optimized 

development approach for mobile machinery market has to fulfill all of the requirements 

according to the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC /1/ considering: control system design, 

software development, documentation and testing requirements throughout the entire 

machine life cycle. A furthermore growing standardization of subsystems and software 

modules could gain additional savings within the development process.  

Using the example of a hydrostatic driveline with a four speed transmission of a feeder 

mixer (see Figure 1) the article would like to point out the complex challenges and 

specifics of the safety related software development process.  

Figure 1: Feeder mixer 

The particular drive line project was realized using the standard “Safety of machinery - 

safety-related parts of control systems” EN ISO 13849-1:2008 /2/ as a basis. A maximum 

required performance level PL

r

‚d‘ was demanded by the safety functions of hydrostatic 



drive line including a four speed power shift transmission. 

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2.  Safety Related Development Process 

The development process of a safety critical control system includes e.g.:  

  identification of functional and safety requirements 

  technical safety concept and system definition 

  control software development  

  software and system verification, validation and documentation 

The safety related development process, which has to be considered in the project, is 

based on a simplified V-Model according to EN ISO 13849 /2/ and BGIA-Report 2/2008 



/6/. The applied V-Model is shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2: Safety related development process with simplified V-Model acc. to

EN ISO 13849 /2/ and BGIA-Report 2/2008 /6/ 

The safety related development process requires extensive new requirements regarding 

test, documentation and traceability. It is of key importance to consider the demands of 

testability and documentation from the very beginning of the development process. For 

an efficient work process it is reasonable to establish an integrated development 

environment, which is generally capable to fulfill all of these demands.  

It is strongly recommended by the functional safety standards, to support the develop-

ment activities for safety related systems by an appropriated tool chain, in order to realize 

an increased software quality, efficient error avoidance, a good reproducibility and an 

established traceability during the software development. 

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3.  MATCH - “Mobile Application Tool Chain” 

In response to the today´s challenges, HYDAC has developed an integrated tool chain 

intended as a comprehensive approach to system and software development of mobile 

machines. The Mobile Application Tool Chain, which is named MATCH, is an integrated 

software development environment with a specific focus on mobile machinery.  

The MATCH tool chain consists on the PC level of three different development tools: 

Project Definition Tool (PDT), Machine Service Tool (MST) and Test and Simulation 

Environment (TSE). The individual tools have been precisely synchronized to allow loss 

free transition of information. Interface losses and multiple manual entries of information 

are almost completely avoided. It addresses all parts of the V-model development 

process starting with the overall vehicle safety and functional requirements, including 

documentation, software testing, commissioning and optimization on the vehicle as well 

as diagnostics and field service (see Figure 3).

Figure 3: Integrative tool chain approach with MATCH

Based on the system definition the tool chain provides embedded software functionality 

by code generation using an Auto Code Builder (ACB). The automatically generated 

code applies to a certified embedded core software (Embedded Core) and library blocks 

(Libraries) specifically tailored to mobile machinery requirements.  

The embedded core software supports e.g. the needs regarding communication, NvMem 

parameter management, failure management, diagnostic functionality and software 

modularization. The hardware adaption layer supports besides the specific BSP needs 

moreover the safety system of the used embedded hardware platform. Figure 4 shows, 

that the output of the auto code generation is an embedded software frame per each 

controller of a complete vehicle project with more than one controller. The specific vehicle 

application functionality can be easily implemented into this frame.  

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Figure 4: MATCH auto-generated embedded software frame

The incorporated embedded software development process is hardware-independent 

and provides multi-controller capability. The code generation provides fully tested and 

documented robust more than code. By using the described approach the programming 

effort for the specific application can be reduced drastically.  

The safety related elements of the MATCH software development environment 

incorporate a certification according the following standards: IEC/EN 61508:2010 

(SIL 2), 

EN ISO 13849:2008 

(PL ‚d‘), 

ISO 25119:2010 

(AgPL ‚d‘) 

and 

EN 16590:2014 (AgPL ‚d‘). 



4.  Drive Line Functionality & System Layout 

The new tool chain has been set to work in several system development projects. As an 

example this paper highlights the electro-hydraulic control system development of the 

hydrostatic driveline with a four speed transmission of a feeder mixer. 

The driveline of the feeder mixer attains a maximum speed of 42 kph on public roads. It 

supports a vast range of functional features in addition to different driving modes. These 

include e.g.: cruise control, speed limitation, over speed protection, anti-stall, power 

limitation, hill starting and auto-park brake. The electro-hydraulic layout of the drive line 

is shows Figure 5.

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Figure 5: Electro-hydraulic system layout of the drive line

It is particularly significant to consider the safety requirements of a control system from 

the very beginning of the design process. In order to be able to identify the safety 

functions of the drive line functionality, it was of primary necessity to apply a hazard & 

risk analyses. The H&R analysis were realized acc. to the standard EN ISO 13849 /2/. It 

was identified a maximum required performance level of PL

r

 ‚d‘ (see Table 1).



#

 Malfunction 

PLr

 Drive line 

 HD1   Undesired starting at engine start 

 HD2   Unexpected start while engine running 



 HD3   Start in unexpected direction 

c

 ….  


 … 



 Cruise control 

HC1 

 Unexpected ground speed value 



HC2 


 Impossible deceleration  

 … 



 …  

 

Table 1: Exemplary hazard & risks  



Table 2 shows exemplary some of the related safety functions of different types: 

“Safe Torque Off” (STO), “Safe Direction” (SDI) and “Safe Speed Range” (SSR). The 

specific safety functions will be exemplary used to investigate more detailed the software 

test requirements.  

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Safety

Function 

Description 

Type  PL


r

Reaction


Time

 Drive line

SF_D-01   Prevent unintended start of movement 

STO

d 500 


ms 

SF_D-02   Safe demand of driving direction  

SDI 

c 1000 


ms 

 … 


 … 

… …  … 


 Cruise Control

SF_C-01   Safe speed presetting 

SSR 



1000 ms 



 … 

 … 


… 

…  


…  

Table 2: Safety Functions 

5.  Software Architecture of the Safety Functions 

The software development was done acc. to the simplified V-model requirements 

considering a maximum required performance level of PL

r

 ‚d‘. Using the MATCH tool 



chain enabled us to focus the capacities specifically on the application software 

development. The frame functionality, generated by an auto code builder, is already 

certified. The exemplary design of the drive line control function is shown in Figure 6.

Figure 6: Major software modules of the drive line function 

Due to the fact that safety requirements for software are entirely process related, the 

testability and documentation of safety related software is of key importance. In order to 

achieve testable software, test features have to be implemented into the software by 

designing testable functional modules, limiting the logic combinations between functions, 

implementing test interfaces and entry points into the code. Therefore the testability of 

the software has to be defined at the very beginning of the software development 

process. 

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6.  Test Methods, Test Automation & Testability 

It is shown by the V-model, that the testing activities are a stepwise procedure, which 

addresses directly the different steps of design activities on the left side of the V-model. 

The test methods can be differentiated into: 

  unit / module tests 

 integration 

tests 

 system 


tests 

 validation 

tests 

By using the so called “bottom-up” principle, the test activities are usually starting with 



the smallest software component, a simple software function. For this reason the 

software unit / module test is the first step within the complete testing process. 



Figure 7 shows the test concept for the unit, module and integration tests based on the 

used MATCH tool chain. The automated test scripts can be defined in the programming 

language “Python”. The important advantage of the Test & Simulation Environment 

(TSE) is, that based on the automatic code generation, automatically all of the software 

frame definitions are as well in the testing environment available: PIN´s, CAN messages, 

error codes, parameters, defines, enumerations (see /7/).



Figure 7: Test concept for unit, module and integration tests /9/

Figure 7 shows, that for an efficient unit and module testing, the test frame should be 

generated automatically into the Python test environment exclusively based on the 

available C-function header information of the application project.  

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If there is a specific need to handle machine options and configurations, a test 

environment has to be capable to allow:

  a reconfiguration of the ECU PIN´s, 

  a restart of the software (ignition on/off), 

  an emulation of the NvMem within the PC storage, 

  an access to NvMem parameters (change configurations, characteristics) and 

  an access to the error management (failure mode testing) 

Figure 8 shows the approach for integration testing on PC. The application can be 

executed together with the MATCH embedded software frame. The hardware BSP will 

be replaced by a simulation API, which allows an access to the virtual PIN values, the 

board information and to the CAN communication as well.  



Figure 8: Integration test approach  

The embedded software simulation is executed on PC and commanded by the Python 

test scripts. For this reason the Python environment is running in TSE environment /7/

and has access to the application, the MATCH embedded frame, the CAN messages 

and to the diagnostic interface. The integration test environment is also capable to 

communicate via virtual CAN with external controller hardware. 



7. Software-in-the-loop 

The control functionality of the hydrostatic drive, together with the 4-speed shift 

transmission, could be verified by using a “software-in-the-loop” (SIL) development 

approach. This enabled the developer immediately to apply software testing methods to 

the embedded application software code in advance of the availability of a prototype.  

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The “software-in-the-loop” testing approach is moreover particularly suitable for the 

validation of very complex safety functions (e.g. cruise control “Safe speed presetting”), 

which are strongly influenced by the vehicle dynamics. 

A MATLAB/SIMULINK model of the complete driveline in connection with the real 

embedded control software was used for the “software-in-the-loop” investigations with a 

direct interface to the tool chain. A simplified model of the drive line (w/o sensors and 

control loops) shows Figure 9.

Figure 9: Drive line simulation model in MATLAB/SIMULINK (w/o sensors, …) 

Figure 10: Auto generated ECU interface block in SIMULINK

The interface from SIMULINK to the embedded software is managed by a specific ECU 

and CAN message interface to the embedded simulation. The applied method is analog 

to the integration testing approach. SIMULINK blocks for the ECU-pin-access and the 

CAN message interface were automatically generated based on the output data of the 

Auto Code Builder (see Figure 10).

Diesel

Engine


Hydraulic

Pump


w/ valves

Hydraulic

Motor

w/ valves



4 Speed

Transmission

w/ gear shifting

Vehicle


Mechanics

&

tire / ground contact



Hydraulic

Hoses & Pipes

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The complete “software-in-the-loop“-model in SIMULINK shows Figure 11.

Figure 11: “Software-in-the-loop” model w/ an interface to the embedded software

8. Summary and Outlook 

In view of the enhanced safety requirements driven by the Machinery Directive 

2006/42/EC /1/, it has been shown that an integrated tool chain approach can reduce 

the development time noticeable by using a consistent project database in connection 

with a configurable middle ware, which is already certified to the different functional 

safety standards of mobile machinery and specifically adjusted to their needs.  

Furthermore particularly the extensive documentation requirements and the complete 

range of testing methods should be an integrated component of the used development 

environment.

A robust software design concept based on a multi-layer approach in connection with an 

auto code builder and library block concept was applied for the application software 

development. A clever modularization of the software is a prerequisite for the testability 

of the embedded software and has to be defined at the very beginning of the 

development. 

A “software-in-the-loop”-approach enables the developer - prior to the commissioning of 

the real prototype vehicle - immediately to apply software testing methods to the 

embedded application software code. Using “software-in-the-loop” test method 

generates specific advantages, when designing safety functions with a complex dynamic 

feedback from the system. 

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9. References 

/1/ 


Official Journal of the European Union, L157/24,EN,9.6.2006 “Machinery 

directive” DIRECTIVE 2006/42/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND 

OF THE COUNCIL of 17 May 2006 on machinery, and amending Directive 

95/16/EC (recast), 2006 

/2/ 

EN ISO 13849, Safety of machinery – Safety-related parts of control systems,  



EN ISO 13849-1:2008-12 Part 1: General principles for design Safety of 

machinery, 2008 

EN ISO 13849-2:2013-02 Part 2: Validation, 2013 

/3/ 


IEC/EN 61508:2010 , Parts 1 to 7 

Functional 



safety 

of 


electrical/ 

electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems, Geneva, 

International Electrotechnical Commission 

/4/ 


ISO 25119:2010(E), Part 1 to 4: Tractors and machinery for agriculture and 

forestry - Safety-related parts of control systems  

/5/ 

DIN EN 16590:2014, Part 1 to 4:  Tractors  and  machinery  for  agriculture  and 



forestry - Safety-related parts of control systems  

/6/ 


BGIA-Report 2/2008 Functional safety of machine controls - Application of 

EN ISO 13849. BGIA (today: IFA) – Institute for Occupational Safety and Health 

of the German Social Accident Insurance. Sankt Augustin, 2008 

/7/ 


MATCH - „Mobile Application Tool Chain”, Software development environment 

for mobile machinery, User Manual, HYDAC System GmbH, 2016 

/8/ 

Weltzien, C., Lautner, E.: Modular software design of safety related systems for 



mobile machinery. 14th Scandinavian International Conference on Fluid Power, 

Tampere, 2015 

/9/ 

Körner, D.: Entwicklung von Teststrategien für sicherheitsrelevante Anteile der 



Steuerungssoftware hydrostatischer Fahrantriebe in mobilen 

Arbeitsmaschinen. Diplom, TU Dresden, 2015  



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