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 …

Abstract Validation and Verification (V&V) of autonomous robotic system software is
becoming a critical issue. Among the V&V techniques at our disposal, formal approaches …

Simulation is a favoured technique for analysis of robotic systems. Currently, however,
simulations are programmed in an ad hoc way, for specific simulators, using either …

Robot software controllers are often concurrent and time critical, and requires modern
engineering approaches for validation and verification. With this motivation, we have …

The consequences of autonomous systems software failures can be potentially dramatic.
There is no need to darken the picture, but still, it seems unlikely that people, insurance …

Current practice in simulation and implementation of robot controllers is usually undertaken
with guidance from high-level design diagrams and pseudocode. Thus, no rigorous …

The need for robotic systems to be verified grows as robots are increasingly used in complex
applications with safety implications. Model-driven engineering and domain-specific …

Designing robotic systems can be very challenging, yet controllers are often specified using
informal notations with development driven primarily by simulations and physical …

Relying only on behaviors that emerge from simple responsive controllers; swarms of robots
have been shown capable of autonomously aggregate themselves or objects into clusters …

This paper establishes a connection between control theory for partially observed discrete-
event systems (DESs) and automated theorem proving (ATP) in the calculus of positively …