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 …

Testing, validation, and verification of robotic and autonomous systems: a systematic review

H Araujo, MR Mousavi, M Varshosaz - ACM Transactions on Software …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We perform a systematic literature review on testing, validation, and verification of robotic
and autonomous systems (RAS). The scope of this review covers peer-reviewed research …

RTAMT: Online robustness monitors from STL

D Ničković, T Yamaguchi - … on Automated Technology for Verification and …, 2020 - Springer
We present rtamt, an online monitoring library for Signal Temporal Logic (STL) and its
interface-aware variant (IA-STL), providing both discrete-and dense-time interpretation of the …

Rise of concerns about AI: reflections and directions

TG Dietterich, EJ Horvitz - Communications of the ACM, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Rise of concerns about AI: reflections and directions Page 1 38 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM |
OCTOBER 2015 | VOL. 58 | NO. 10 viewpoints IMA GE COUR TE S Y OF …

[HTML][HTML] Cyber security of robots: A comprehensive survey

A Botta, S Rotbei, S Zinno, G Ventre - Intelligent Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
The use of robots in the modern world is widespread, not only in medicine and automated
vehicles, but also in national security, defense, and industry. Together with the growing …

SOTER: a runtime assurance framework for programming safe robotics systems

A Desai, S Ghosh, SA Seshia… - 2019 49th Annual …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent drive towards achieving greater autonomy and intelligence in robotics has led to
high levels of complexity. Autonomous robots increasingly depend on third-party off-the …

ROSMonitoring: a runtime verification framework for ROS

A Ferrando, RC Cardoso, M Fisher, D Ancona… - … Robotic Systems: 21st …, 2020 - Springer
Recently, robotic applications have been seeing widespread use across industry, often
tackling safety-critical scenarios where software reliability is paramount. These scenarios …

Formal verification of ROS-based robotic applications using timed-automata

R Halder, J Proença, N Macedo… - 2017 IEEE/ACM 5th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic technologies are continuously transforming the domestic and the industrial
environments. Recently the Robotic Operating System (ROS), has been widely adopted both …

A corroborative approach to verification and validation of human–robot teams

M Webster, D Western, D Araiza-Illan… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
We present an approach for the verification and validation (V&V) of robot assistants in the
context of human–robot interactions, to demonstrate their trustworthiness through …

Towards real-time, on-board, hardware-supported sensor and software health management for unmanned aerial systems

J Schumann, KY Rozier, T Reinbacher… - … of Prognostics and …, 2015 - papers.phmsociety.org
For unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to be successfully deployed and integrated within the
national airspace, it is imperative that they possess the capability to effectively complete their …