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20192025
most citedA Summary of Formal Specification and Verification of Autonomous Robotic Systems

18 citations · 22 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.SE2025★ 1 cited

Towards Continuous Assurance with Formal Verification and Assurance Cases

Dhaminda B. Abeywickrama, Michael Fisher, Frederic Wheeler +1

Autonomous systems must sustain justified confidence in their correctness and safety across their operational lifecycle-from design and deployment through post-deployment evolution…

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

Autonomy and Safety Assurance in the Early Development of Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Dhaminda B. Abeywickrama, Michael Fisher, Frederic Wheeler +1

This report provides an overview of the workshop titled Autonomy and Safety Assurance in the Early Development of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, hosted by the Centre for Robotic…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

ROSMonitoring 2.0: Extending ROS Runtime Verification to Services and Ordered Topics

Maryam Ghaffari Saadat, Angelo Ferrando, Louise A. Dennis +1

Formal verification of robotic applications presents challenges due to their hybrid nature and distributed architecture. This paper introduces ROSMonitoring 2.0, an extension of RO…

cs.RO2024

Grand Challenges in the Verification of Autonomous Systems

Kevin Leahy, Hamid Asgari, Louise A. Dennis +6

Autonomous systems use independent decision-making with only limited human intervention to accomplish goals in complex and unpredictable environments. As the autonomy technologies…

cs.AI2024

Specifying Agent Ethics (Blue Sky Ideas)

Louise A. Dennis, Michael Fisher

We consider the question of what properties a Machine Ethics system should have. This question is complicated by the existence of ethical dilemmas with no agreed upon solution. We…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

Autonomous Systems' Safety Cases for use in UK Nuclear Environments

Christopher R. Anderson, Louise A. Dennis

An overview of the process to develop a safety case for an autonomous robot deployment on a nuclear site in the UK is described and a safety case for a hypothetical robot incorpora…

cs.SE2019★ 18 cited

A Summary of Formal Specification and Verification of Autonomous Robotic Systems

Matt Luckcuck, Marie Farrel, Louise A. Dennis +1

Autonomous robotic systems are complex, hybrid, and often safety-critical; this makes their formal specification and verification uniquely challenging. Though commonly used, testin…