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New benchmark suite targets formal verification of industrial PLC programs

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Researchers have developed a new benchmark suite for formally verifying IEC 61131-3 ladder diagram programs, addressing a lack of standard evaluation tools in the field. This suite includes 50 programs across ten industrial domains, presented in both graphical (Ladder Diagram) and textual (Structured Text) formats. A key contribution is a ground-truth methodology to ensure reliable verdicts, which are established through construction, fault injection, or audited cross-tool consensus. The corpus, schema, validator, and recheck harness are released as open artifacts to promote reproducible measurement of progress. AI

IMPACT This benchmark suite aims to improve the reliability and reproducibility of formal verification for industrial control systems, potentially leading to safer and more robust automation.

RANK_REASON The item describes a new benchmark suite and methodology for formal verification of industrial programs, published on arXiv. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=0.4]

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New benchmark suite targets formal verification of industrial PLC programs

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Pierre Dantas, Lucas Cordeiro, Waldir Junior ·

    A Benchmark Suite and Ground-Truth Methodology for Formal Verification of IEC 61131-3 Ladder Diagram Programs

    arXiv:2609.18994v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present the first benchmark suite for formal verification of Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) programs that combines controlled ground truth with coverage of both textual (Structured Text, ST) and graphical (Ladder Diagram, LD…

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