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 …

A review of verification and validation for space autonomous systems

RC Cardoso, G Kourtis, LA Dennis, C Dixon… - Current Robotics …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The deployment of hardware (eg, robots, satellites, etc.) to
space is a costly and complex endeavor. It is of extreme importance that on-board systems …

Integrating formal verification and assurance: an inspection rover case study

H Bourbouh, M Farrell, A Mavridou, I Sljivo… - NASA Formal Methods …, 2021 - Springer
The complexity and flexibility of autonomous robotic systems necessitates a range of distinct
verification tools. This presents new challenges not only for design verification but also for …

Formal modelling and runtime verification of autonomous grasping for active debris removal

M Farrell, N Mavrakis, A Ferrando, C Dixon… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Active debris removal in space has become a necessary activity to maintain and facilitate
orbital operations. Current approaches tend to adopt autonomous robotic systems which are …

Swarmflawfinder: Discovering and exploiting logic flaws of swarm algorithms

C Jung, A Ahad, Y Jeon, Y Kwon - 2022 IEEE Symposium on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inspired by swarms in nature, swarm robotics have been developed to conduct various
challenging tasks such as environmental monitoring, disaster recovery, logistics, and even …

[图书][B] Verifiable Autonomous Systems: Using Rational Agents to Provide Assurance about Decisions Made by Machines

LA Dennis, M Fisher - 2023 - books.google.com
How can we provide guarantees of behaviours for autonomous systems such as driverless
cars? This tutorial text, for professionals, researchers and graduate students, explains how …

Using formal methods for autonomous systems: Five recipes for formal verification

M Luckcuck - Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Formal Methods are mathematically-based techniques for software design and engineering,
which enable the unambiguous description of and reasoning about a system's behaviour …

A compositional approach to verifying modular robotic systems

M Luckcuck, M Farrell, A Ferrando, RC Cardoso… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Robotic systems used in safety-critical industrial situations often rely on modular software
architectures, and increasingly include autonomous components. Verifying that these …

Leveraging Compositional Methods for Modeling and Verification of an Autonomous Taxi System

A Pinto, A Corso, E Schmerling - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We apply a compositional formal modeling and verification method to an autonomous
aircraft taxi system. We provide insights into the modeling approach and we identify several …

Compositional verification of stigmergic collective systems

L Di Stefano, F Lang - … Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and …, 2023 - Springer
Collective adaptive systems may be broadly defined as ensembles of autonomous agents,
whose interaction may lead to the emergence of global features and patterns. Formal …