Verifying and validating autonomous systems: Towards an integrated approach

A Ferrando, LA Dennis, D Ancona, M Fisher… - … Conference, RV 2018 …, 2018 - Springer
When applying formal verification to a system that interacts with the real world we must use a
model of the environment. This model represents an abstraction of the actual environment …

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 …

[图书][B] Verifiable Autonomous Systems: Using Rational Agents to Provide Assurance about Decisions Made by Machines

LA Dennis, M Fisher - 2023 - books.google.com
How can we provide guarantees of behaviours for autonomous systems such as driverless
cars? This tutorial text, for professionals, researchers and graduate students, explains how …

[PDF][PDF] The MCAPL framework including the agent infrastructure layer and agent java pathfinder

LA Dennis - Journal of Open Source Software, 2018 - joss.theoj.org
Summary The MCAPL (Model-checking Agent Programming Languages) framework is a
suite of tools for building interpreters for agent programming languages and verifying the …

Toward a holistic approach to verification and validation of autonomous cognitive systems

A Ferrando, LA Dennis, RC Cardoso, M Fisher… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
When applying formal verification to a system that interacts with the real world, we must use
a model of the environment. This model represents an abstraction of the actual environment …

Toward campus mail delivery using BDI

C Onyedinma, P Gavigan, B Esfandiari - Journal of Sensor and Actuator …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Autonomous systems developed with the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) architecture tend to
be mostly implemented in simulated environments. In this project we sought to build a BDI …

Adaptive hybrid reasoning for agent-based digital twins of distributed multi-robot systems

H Marah, M Challenger - SIMULATION, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The digital twin (DT) mainly acts as a virtual exemplification of a real-world entity, system, or
process via multiphysical and logical models, allowing the capture and synchronization of its …

Verifiable autonomy: From theory to applications

L Dennis, C Dixon, M Fisher - AI Communications, 2022 - content.iospress.com
Abstract The Autonomy and Verification group 1 1 sits within the Department of Computer
Science 2 2 at the University of Manchester. The group has a long history of research into …

Agent in a box: a framework for autonomous mobile robots with beliefs, desires, and intentions

P Gavigan, B Esfandiari - Electronics, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper provides the Agent in a Box for developing autonomous mobile robots using
Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) agents. This framework provides the means of connecting the …

Bdi for autonomous mobile robot navigation

P Gavigan, B Esfandiari - … Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, 2021 - Springer
We explored how mobile Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) agents could navigate using path
plans that are automatically generated in AgentSpeak, asking if there could be any …