A review of agent-based programming for multi-agent systems

RC Cardoso, A Ferrando - Computers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Intelligent and autonomous agents is a subarea of symbolic artificial intelligence where
these agents decide, either reactively or proactively, upon a course of action by reasoning …

An overview of verification and validation challenges for inspection robots

M Fisher, RC Cardoso, EC Collins, C Dadswell… - Robotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
The advent of sophisticated robotics and AI technology makes sending humans into
hazardous and distant environments to carry out inspections increasingly avoidable. Being …

Rational software agents with the BDI reasoning model for Cyber–Physical Systems

B Karaduman, BT Tezel, M Challenger - Engineering Applications of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Cyber–Physical Systems (CPSs) are complex and heterogeneous systems.
Interacting with the physical world makes CPS unpredictable because of unanticipated …

RV4JaCa—Towards Runtime Verification of Multi-Agent Systems and Robotic Applications

DC Engelmann, A Ferrando, AR Panisson, D Ancona… - Robotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a Runtime Verification (RV) approach for Multi-Agent Systems (MAS)
using the JaCaMo framework. Our objective is to bring a layer of security to the MAS. This is …

Generating safe autonomous decision-making in ROS

Y Yang, T Holvoet - arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.14042, 2022 - arxiv.org
The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a widely used framework for building robotic systems.
It offers a wide variety of reusable packages and a pattern for new developments. It is up to …

Toward a holistic approach to verification and validation of autonomous cognitive systems

A Ferrando, LA Dennis, RC Cardoso, M Fisher… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
When applying formal verification to a system that interacts with the real world, we must use
a model of the environment. This model represents an abstraction of the actual environment …

Toward campus mail delivery using BDI

C Onyedinma, P Gavigan, B Esfandiari - Journal of Sensor and Actuator …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Autonomous systems developed with the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) architecture tend to
be mostly implemented in simulated environments. In this project we sought to build a BDI …

Implementing Durative Actions with Failure Detection in Gwendolen

P Stringer, RC Cardoso, C Dixon, LA Dennis - International Workshop on …, 2021 - Springer
We present an extension of the semantics for action execution in the Gwendolen BDI
programming language. This extension firstly explicitly assumes that actions have durations …

Safe Autonomous Decision-Making with vGOAL

Y Yang, T Holvoet - International Conference on Practical Applications of …, 2023 - Springer
Safety is one of the crucial features of autonomous systems. Safe decision-making is a
critical and challenging task in developing such systems. To address this challenge, we …

Agents as a Design Paradigm for Robotic Systems Leveraging ROS and Gazebo

V Seidita, A Chella - Workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable …, 2024 - Springer
The integration of ROS (Robot Operating System) and Gazebo as a simulator is becoming
increasingly vital in the field of robotic system design and development. Like any complex …