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 …

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 …

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 …

Failure recovery mechanism for BDI agents based on abilities and discovery protocols

H Baitiche, M Bouzenada, DE Saidouni - Journal of Ambient Intelligence …, 2024 - Springer
An ambient agent may fail to achieve its goal due to the dynamism and nondeterminism of
the environment. Based on the concepts of Abilities and Discovery Protocols, we present a …

Updating Action Descriptions and Plans for Cognitive Agents

P Stringer, RC Cardoso, C Dixon, M Fisher… - … '23: Proceedings of …, 2023 - aura.abdn.ac.uk
In this paper we present an extension of Belief-Desire-Intention agents which can adapt their
performance in response to changes in their environment. Specifically we consider …

Verifiable autonomy: From theory to applications

L Dennis, C Dixon, M Fisher - AI Communications, 2022 - content.iospress.com
Abstract The Autonomy and Verification group 1 1 sits within the Department of Computer
Science 2 2 at the University of Manchester. The group has a long history of research into …

[PDF][PDF] Enabling BDI Agents to Reason on a Dynamic Action Repertoire in Hypermedia Environments

D Vachtsevanou, B de Lima, A Ciortea… - Proceedings of the 23rd …, 2024 - ifaamas.org
Autonomy requires adaptability and persistence in pursuing longterm objectives within
evolving contexts. While BDI agents can cope with dynamic and uncertain environments …

Agents and robots for reliable engineered autonomy: A perspective from the organisers of AREA 2020

RC Cardoso, A Ferrando, D Briola, C Menghi… - Journal of Sensor and …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Multi-agent systems, robotics and software engineering are large and active research areas
with many applications in academia and industry. The First Workshop on Agents and Robots …

Abductive design of BDI agent-based digital twins of organizations

A Alelaimat, A Ghose, HK Dam - PRIMA 2020: Principles and Practice of …, 2021 - Springer
A Digital Twin ideally manifests the same behaviour (in silico) of its physical counterpart.
While considerable attention has been paid to the development of Digital Twins for physical …

Adaptive Cognitive Agents: Updating Action Descriptions and Plans

P Stringer, RC Cardoso, C Dixon, M Fisher… - … Conference on Multi …, 2023 - Springer
In this paper we present an extension of Belief-Desire-Intention agents which can adapt their
performance in response to changes in their environment. We consider situations in which …