Beyond the ability to represent a StateMachine on a Block Definition Diagram (BDD) as a symbol with the «stateMachine» keyword and AdjunctProperty decomposition, SysML does not add anything to the basic UML behavioral StateMachine system. (Note that ProtocolStateMachines are excluded from SysML.)
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