UAS operators safety and reliability survey: Emerging technologies towards the certification of autonomous UAS

M Osborne, J Lantair, Z Shafiq, X Zhao… - … on System Reliability …, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper details the results of a survey on safety and reliability of commercial Unmanned
Aerial Systems (UAS), issued to 1500 companies in the UK, with a 10% response rate. The …

Formal synthesis of uncertainty reduction controllers

M Carwehl, C Imrie, T Vogel, G Rodrigues… - Proceedings of the 19th …, 2024‏ - dl.acm.org
In its quest for approaches to taming uncertainty in self-adaptive systems (SAS), the
research community has largely focused on solutions that adapt the SAS architecture or …

[HTML][HTML] Hybrid verification technique for decision-making of self-driving vehicles

M Al-Nuaimi, S Wibowo, H Qu, J Aitken… - Journal of Sensor and …, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
The evolution of driving technology has recently progressed from active safety features and
ADAS systems to fully sensor-guided autonomous driving. Bringing such a vehicle to market …

Battery charge scheduling in long-life autonomous mobile robots via multi-objective decision making under uncertainty

M Tomy, B Lacerda, N Hawes, JL Wyatt - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The daily working hours of mobile robots are limited primarily by battery life. Most systems
use a combination of thresholds and fixed periods to decide when to charge. This produces …

Model checking for safe navigation among humans

S Junges, N Jansen, JP Katoen, U Topcu… - … Evaluation of Systems …, 2018‏ - Springer
We investigate the use of probabilistic model checking to synthesise optimal strategies for
autonomous systems that operate among uncontrollable agents such as humans. To …

Towards integrating formal verification of autonomous robots with battery prognostics and health management

X Zhao, M Osborne, J Lantair, V Robu, D Flynn… - … Engineering and Formal …, 2019‏ - Springer
The battery is a key component of autonomous robots. Its performance limits the robot's
safety and reliability. Unlike liquid-fuel, a battery, as a chemical device, exhibits complicated …

Balancing turn-based games with chained strategy generation

W Kavanagh, A Miller, G Norman… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Probabilistic model checking can overcome much of the complexity inherent in balancing
games. Game balancing is the careful maintenance of relationships between the ways in …

[PDF][PDF] A Counter Abstraction Technique for the Verification of Probabilistic Swarm Systems.

A Lomuscio, E Pirovano - AAMAS, 2019‏ - pirovano.co.uk
A Counter Abstraction Technique for the Verification of Probabilistic Swarm Systems Page 1 A
Counter Abstraction Technique for the Verification of Probabilistic Swarm Systems Alessio …

Collaborative models for autonomous systems controller synthesis

D Fraser, R Giaquinta, R Hoffmann, M Ireland… - Formal Aspects of …, 2020‏ - Springer
We show how detailed simulation models and abstract Markov models can be developed
collaboratively to generate and implement effective controllers for autonomous agent search …

Gameplay analysis of multiplayer games with verified action-costs

W Kavanagh, A Miller - The Computer Games Journal, 2021‏ - Springer
Measuring player skill cannot be done by considering their historical success alone as the
relative skill of their opponents must be considered along with confounding factors such as …