Organizational Unit:
Mobile Robot Laboratory
Mobile Robot Laboratory
2015-06
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Lyons, Damian M.
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Arkin, Ronald C.
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Jiang, Shu
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Liu, Tsung-Ming
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Nirmal, Paramesh
Certain robot missions need to perform predictably in a physical environment that may have significant uncertainty. One approach is to leverage automatic software verification techniques to establish a performance guarantee. The addition of an environment model and uncertainty in both program and environment, however, means the state-space of a model-checking solution to the problem can be prohibitively large. An approach based on behavior-based controllers in a process-algebra framework that avoids state-space combinatorics is presented here. In this approach, verification of the robot program in the uncertain environment is reduced to a filtering problem for a Bayesian Network. Validation results are presented for the verification of a multiple-waypoint and an autonomous exploration robot mission.