Department of Computer Science

Programme

Tuesday, 1st December

Time Room Course
09:30 - 11:00 CSE102/103 From robot swarms to ethical robots: the challenges of verification and validation
Alan Winfield
Part 1 (7.5MB)
11:00 - 11:30 CSE/Pod Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 CSE102/103 From robot swarms to ethical robots: the challenges of verification and validation
Alan Winfield
Part 2 (6.7MB)
13:00 - 14:00 CSE/Pod Lunch
14:00 - 14:45 CSE102/103 Selected Topics in Verification of Robots
Sandor M Veres
This afternoon's programme (50KB)

MCMAS & PRISM
Hongyang Qu
Slides (1.5MB)
15:00 - 15:45 CSE102/103 Verification of Control Systems on UAS
Sandor M Veres
Formal verification of small and micro UAS (1.8MB)
15:45 - 16:00 CSE/Pod Coffee break
16:00 - 16:45 CSE102/103 Verification of runtime reasoning on robots
Sandor M Veres
Runtime verification (473KB)
17:00 - 17:45 CSE102/103 Pursuit-Evasion Strategies by Model Checking
Hongyang Qu
Slides (2.1MB)

Wednesday, 2nd December

Time Room Course
09:30 - 11:00 RCH204 Why is verification and validation so crucial for the success of advanced robotics?
Anthony Pipe
Slides (923MB)
11:00 - 11:30 RCH/Island of Interaction Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 RCH204 Why is verification and validation so crucial for the success of advanced robotics?
Anthony Pipe
Slides (923MB)
13:00 - 14:00 RCH/Island of Interaction Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 RCH204 Verifiable Autonomy - how can you trust your robots?
Michael Fisher
Part I: Programming and Requirements (2.6MB)
15:30 - 16:00 RCH/Island of Interaction Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30 RCH204 Verifiable Autonomy - how can you trust your robots?
Michael Fisher
Part II: Verification and Application (6.6MB)

Thursday, 3rd December

Time Room Course
09:30 - 11:00 RCH103 Practical Techniques for Verification and Validation of Robots
Kerstin Eder
Part 1 (17.5MB)

Controllers in Simulink (numerical + SMT solver verification)
Dejanira Araiza-Illan
Demo 1
11:00 - 11:30 RCH104 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 RCH103 Practical Techniques for Verification and Validation of Robots
Kerstin Eder
Part 2 (9.7MB)

CDV testbench in ROS-Gazebo
Dejanira Araiza-Illan
Demo 2
13:00 - 14:00 RCH104 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 RCH103 Towards Verification of Domestic Autonomous Robot Assistants
Clare Dixon
Part 1 (13.7MB)
15:30 - 16:00 RCH104 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30 RCH103 Towards Verification of Domestic Autonomous Robot Assistants
Clare Dixon
Part 2 (1.3MB)
18:30 - 20:30 RCH/Atrium Workshop dinner

Friday, 4th December

Time Room Course
9:30 - 9:50 CSE102/103 RoboCalc: Software Engineering of Robots
Ana Cavalcanti
Slides (358KB)
9:50 - 10:10 CSE102/103 RoboCalc case study
Jon Timmis
10:10 - 10:50 CSE102/103 Short presentations by attendees

Verification & Validation of Autonomous Systems - an EPSRC-funded UK research network
Michael Fisher
Slides (94KB)

Personal Introduction / Position Statement
Frank Zeyda
Slides (457KB)

Verification IDE for TeleoR: a cognitive robot programming language
Keith Clark

Rob Hierons

Surrey’s interests in Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Steve Schneider
10:50 - 11:20 CSE/Pod Coffee break
11:20 - 12:00 CSE102/103 Short presentations by attendees

Verifying Resource-Bounded Agents
Brian Logan

Environmental Pollution Monitoring
Alistair Boxall

Andrew Ireland

New Foundational Structure for Engineering Verified multi-UAVs
Stephen Cameron

Ruth Hoffman

Markus Roggenbach

Rob Alexander

INTO-CPS
Simon Foster
Slides (325KB)
12:00 - 13:00 CSE/Pod Lunch
13:00 - 16:00 CSE102/103 Explorations for collaborations and projects

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