Towards temporal verification of swarm robotic systems

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1429-1441

  Dixon, Clare ^a   Winfield, Alan F T ^b   Fisher, Michael ^a   Zeng, Chengxiu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emergent behaviour; Formal verification; Model checking; Swarm robotics; Temporal logics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC TECHNIQUES; ATTRACTIVE SOLUTIONS; AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; EMERGENT BEHAVIOURS; FORMAL VERIFICATIONS; INDIVIDUAL CONTROL; LARGE POPULATION; REAL-WORLD APPLICATION; ROBOT SWARMS; ROBOTIC SWARMS; SELF-ORGANISED; SWARM ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SWARM ROBOTICS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL PROPERTY; TEMPORAL VERIFICATION;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; FAULT TOLERANCE; MODEL CHECKING; ROBOTS; TEMPORAL LOGIC;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84867881483     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2012.03.003     Document Type: Article

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