Formal specification and verification of autonomous robotic systems: A survey

M Luckcuck, M Farrell, LA Dennis, C Dixon… - ACM Computing …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Autonomous robotic systems are complex, hybrid, and often safety critical; this makes their
formal specification and verification uniquely challenging. Though commonly used, testing …

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 …

Foundational challenges in assuring alignment and safety of large language models

U Anwar, A Saparov, J Rando, D Paleka… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This work identifies 18 foundational challenges in assuring the alignment and safety of large
language models (LLMs). These challenges are organized into three different categories …

[KNIHA][B] Formal methods for discrete-time dynamical systems

C Belta, B Yordanov, EA Gol - 2017 - Springer
In control theory, complex models of physical processes, such as systems of differential or
difference equations, are usually checked against simple specifications, such as stability …

[KNIHA][B] Principles of cyber-physical systems

R Alur - 2015 - books.google.com
A foundational text that offers a rigorous introduction to the principles of design,
specification, modeling, and analysis of cyber-physical systems. A cyber-physical system …

[PDF][PDF] Towards guaranteed safe ai: A framework for ensuring robust and reliable ai systems

D Dalrymple, J Skalse, Y Bengio… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - eecs.berkeley.edu
Ensuring that AI systems reliably and robustly avoid harmful or dangerous behaviours is a
crucial challenge, especially for AI systems with a high degree of autonomy and general …

Safety-critical control for autonomous systems: Control barrier functions via reduced-order models

MH Cohen, TG Molnar, AD Ames - Annual Reviews in Control, 2024 - Elsevier
Modern autonomous systems, such as flying, legged, and wheeled robots, are generally
characterized by high-dimensional nonlinear dynamics, which presents challenges for …

Cyber–physical systems: A perspective at the centennial

KD Kim, PR Kumar - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are the next generation of engineered systems in which
computing, communication, and control technologies are tightly integrated. Research on …

Automated verification and synthesis of stochastic hybrid systems: A survey

A Lavaei, S Soudjani, A Abate, M Zamani - Automatica, 2022 - Elsevier
Stochastic hybrid systems have received significant attentions as a relevant modeling
framework describing many systems, from engineering to the life sciences: they enable the …

Interleukin‐33/ST2 axis promotes breast cancer growth and metastases by facilitating intratumoral accumulation of immunosuppressive and innate lymphoid cells

IP Jovanovic, NN Pejnovic… - … journal of cancer, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The role of IL‐33/ST2 pathway in antitumor immunity is unclear. Using 4T1 breast cancer
model we demonstrate time‐dependent increase of endogenous IL‐33 at both the mRNA …