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Verifying Autonomous Robots: Challenges and Reflections (Invited Talk)

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Clare Dixon
  • Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, UK

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  • Dixon, Clare: This work was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under the grants Trustworthy Robot Systems (EP/K006193/1) and Science of Sensor Systems Software (S4 EP/N007565/1) and by the UK Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF), delivered by UKRI and managed by EPSRC under the grants Future AI and Robotics Hub for Space (FAIR-SPACE EP/R026092/1) and Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for Nuclear (RAIN EP/R026084/1).

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The work discussed in this document was carried out collaboratively with researchers on the following funded research projects: Trustworthy Robot Systems; Science of Sensor Systems Software; Future AI and Robotics Hub for Space; and Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for Nuclear.

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Clare Dixon. Verifying Autonomous Robots: Challenges and Reflections (Invited Talk). In 27th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 178, pp. 1:1-1:4, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2020.1

Abstract

Autonomous robots such as robot assistants, healthcare robots, industrial robots, autonomous vehicles etc. are being developed to carry out a range of tasks in different environments. The robots need to be able to act autonomously, choosing between a range of activities. They may be operating close to or in collaboration with humans, or in environments hazardous to humans where the robot is hard to reach if it malfunctions. We need to ensure that such robots are reliable, safe and trustworthy. In this talk I will discuss experiences from several projects in developing and applying verification techniques to autonomous robotic systems. In particular we consider: a robot assistant in a domestic house, a robot co-worker for a cooperative manufacturing task, multiple robot systems and robots operating in hazardous environments.

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  • Computer systems organization → Dependable and fault-tolerant systems and networks
  • Software and its engineering → Software verification and validation
  • Theory of computation → Logic
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  • Verification
  • Autonomous Robots

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