Analysing robot swarm behaviour via probabilistic model checking

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 199-213

  Konur, Savas ^a   Dixon, Clare ^a   Fisher, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Formal verification; Probabilistic model checking; Robot swarms; Swarm algorithms

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION; FAULT-TOLERANT; FORMAL VERIFICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILISTIC MODEL-CHECKING; ROBOT SWARMS; SINGLE ROBOTS; SWARM ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS; EXPERIMENTS; ROBOTS;

MODEL CHECKING;

EID: 84855204865     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2011.10.005     Document Type: Article

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