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 …

Model-driven engineering for mobile robotic systems: a systematic map** study

GL Casalaro, G Cattivera, F Ciccozzi… - Software and Systems …, 2022 - Springer
Mobile robots operate in various environments (eg aquatic, aerial, or terrestrial), they come
in many diverse shapes and they are increasingly becoming parts of our lives. The …

Plug in the safety chip: Enforcing constraints for llm-driven robot agents

Z Yang, SS Raman, A Shah… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have enabled a new research
domain, LLM agents, for solving robotics and planning tasks by leveraging the world …

Behavior trees in action: a study of robotics applications

R Ghzouli, T Berger, EB Johnsen, S Dragule… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Autonomous robots combine a variety of skills to form increasingly complex behaviors called
missions. While the skills are often programmed at a relatively low level of abstraction, their …

Behavior trees and state machines in robotics applications

R Ghzouli, T Berger, EB Johnsen… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous robots combine skills to form increasingly complex behaviors, called missions.
While skills are often programmed at a relatively low abstraction level, their coordination is …

Grounding complex natural language commands for temporal tasks in unseen environments

JX Liu, Z Yang, I Idrees, S Liang… - … on Robot Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Grounding navigational commands to linear temporal logic (LTL) leverages its unambiguous
semantics for reasoning about long-horizon tasks and verifying the satisfaction of temporal …

Software variability in service robotics

S Garcia, D Strüber, D Brugali, A Di Fava… - Empirical Software …, 2023 - Springer
Robots artificially replicate human capabilities thanks to their software, the main
embodiment of intelligence. However, engineering robotics software has become …

From pluralistic normative principles to autonomous-agent rules

B Townsend, C Paterson, TT Arvind, G Nemirovsky… - Minds and …, 2022 - Springer
With recent advancements in systems engineering and artificial intelligence, autonomous
agents are increasingly being called upon to execute tasks that have normative relevance …

[HTML][HTML] Specification, stochastic modeling and analysis of interactive service robotic applications

L Lestingi, D Zerla, MM Bersani, M Rossi - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Assistive robotic systems are quickly becoming a core technology for the service sector as
they are understood capable of supporting people in need of assistance in a wide variety of …

Mission specification patterns for mobile robots: Providing support for quantitative properties

C Menghi, C Tsigkanos, M Askarpour… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With many applications across domains as diverse as logistics, healthcare, and agriculture,
service robots are in increasingly high demand. Nevertheless, the designers of these robots …