Modes

Modes are states in state machines that are running in the vehicle. SWCs can react to modes either as events (mode switch events) or they can choose to allow certain runnables to be active only in certain modes.

A set of states is called a mode declaration group which acts as a container of sorts for the mode (state) names.

Creating a Mode Declaration Group package

It is recommended that you create a unique AUTOSAR package to hold your mode declaration groups. Remember to use the role “ModeDclrGroup”.

import autosar

ws = autosar.workspace(version="4.2.2")
package = ws.createPackage('ModeDclrGroups', role="ModeDclrGroup")

Creating Mode Declaration Groups

Remember to check with your AUTOSAR vendor which mode groups you should use and what their definitions are. Here is an example containing a made up mode declaration group called BswM_Mode with the following mode declarations (state names):

• POSTRUN

• RUN

• SHUTDOWN

• STARTUP (initial state)

• WAKEUP

import autosar

ws = autosar.workspace(version="4.2.2")
package = ws.createPackage('ModeDclrGroups', role="ModeDclrGroup")
package.createModeDeclarationGroup('BswM_Mode', ["POSTRUN",
                                                "RUN",
                                                "SHUTDOWN",
                                                "STARTUP",
                                                "WAKEUP"], "STARTUP")

In addition, you can also set a category and adminData for your newly created mode declaration group.