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 …

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 …

Digital Twins (DTs) can be constructed for many different applications, leading to substantial
differences between different case studies. To be able to learn from the challenges and …

As a general trend in industrial robotics, an increasing number of safety functions are being
developed or re-engineered to be handled in software rather than by physical hardware …

RoboChart is a core notation in the RoboStar framework. It is a timed and probabilistic
domain-specific and state machine based language for robotics. RoboChart supports …

The existing testing theories for CSP cater for verification of interaction patterns (traces) and
deadlocks, but not time. We address here refinement and testing based on a dialect of CSP …

Autonomous agents are increasingly being proposed for use in healthcare, assistive care,
education, and other applications governed by complex human-centric norms. To ensure …

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 …

Robotic systems are becoming pervasive and adopted in increasingly many domains, such
as manufacturing, healthcare, and space exploration. To this end, engineering software has …

While checking functional correctness for automated driving is often achieved through vast
amounts of automated and manual field testing, automating specification verification is …