Formal methods to comply with rules of the road in autonomous driving: State of the art and grand challenges

N Mehdipour, M Althoff, RD Tebbens, C Belta - Automatica, 2023 - Elsevier
We provide a review of recent work on formal methods for autonomous driving. Formal
methods have been traditionally used to specify and verify the behavior of computer …

nl2spec: Interactively Translating Unstructured Natural Language to Temporal Logics with Large Language Models

M Cosler, C Hahn, D Mendoza, F Schmitt… - … Conference on Computer …, 2023 - Springer
A rigorous formalization of desired system requirements is indispensable when performing
any verification task. This often limits the application of verification techniques, as writing …

Nl2tl: Transforming natural languages to temporal logics using large language models

Y Chen, R Gandhi, Y Zhang, C Fan - arxiv preprint arxiv:2305.07766, 2023 - arxiv.org
Temporal Logic (TL) can be used to rigorously specify complex high-level specification for
systems in many engineering applications. The translation between natural language (NL) …

Ltl2action: Generalizing ltl instructions for multi-task rl

P Vaezipoor, AC Li, RAT Icarte… - … on Machine Learning, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
We address the problem of teaching a deep reinforcement learning (RL) agent to follow
instructions in multi-task environments. Instructions are expressed in a well-known formal …

Formal specifications from natural language

C Hahn, F Schmitt, JJ Tillman, N Metzger… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We study the generalization abilities of language models when translating natural language
into formal specifications with complex semantics. In particular, we fine-tune language …

A survey on technical challenges of assistive robotics for elder people in domestic environments: the aspida concept

C Keroglou, I Kansizoglou, P Michailidis… - … on Medical Robotics …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent decades, modern developed societies have experienced a significant increase in
life expectancy, resulting in a significant degree of aging in the population. This …

How should autonomous vehicles drive? Policy, methodological, and social considerations for designing a driver

AY Bin-Nun, P Derler, N Mehdipour… - Humanities and social …, 2022 - nature.com
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are being developed, tested, and commercialized around the
world. While skilled human drivers can rely on their experience and common sense to …

Deepstl: from english requirements to signal temporal logic

J He, E Bartocci, D Ničković, H Isakovic… - Proceedings of the 44th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Formal methods provide very powerful tools and techniques for the design and analysis of
complex systems. Their practical application remains however limited, due to the widely …

Verifying resource compliance requirements from natural language text over event logs

H Mustroph, M Barrientos, K Winter… - … Conference on Business …, 2023 - Springer
Process compliance aims to ensure that processes adhere to requirements imposed by
natural language texts such as regulatory documents. Existing approaches assume that …

Learning a natural-language to LTL executable semantic parser for grounded robotics

C Wang, C Ross, YL Kuo, B Katz… - Conference on Robot …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Children acquire their native language with apparent ease by observing how language is
used in context and attempting to use it themselves. They do so without laborious …