Robots are becoming ubiquitous: from vacuum cleaners to driverless cars, there is a wide
variety of applications, many with potential safety hazards. The work presented in this paper …

A robot affects and is affected by its environment, so that typically its behaviour depends on
properties of that environment. For verification, we need to formalise those properties …

Simulation is favored by roboticists to evaluate controller design and software. Often, state
machines are drawn to convey overall ideas and used as a basis to program tool-specific …

Assurance cases are often required to certify critical systems. The use of formal methods in
assurance can improve automation, increase confidence, and overcome errant reasoning …

The growing complexity and diversity of models used for engineering dependable systems
implies that a variety of formal methods, across differing abstractions, paradigms, and …

The behaviour of a robot affects and is affected by its environment. So, many of the expected
and desirable properties of a robotic system depend on properties of its environment. While …

We describe our UTP theory of hybrid relations, which extends the relational calculus with
continuous variables and differential equations. This enables the use of UTP in modelling …

Assurance cases (ACs) are often required to certify critical systems. The use of integrated
formal methods (FMs) in assurance can improve automation, increase confidence, and …

This paper presents a technique for automatic generation of tests for robotic systems based
on a domain-specific notation called RoboChart. This is a UML-like diagrammatic notation …

Isabelle/SACM is a tool for automated construction of model-based assurance cases with
integrated formal methods, based on the Isabelle proof assistant. Assurance cases show …