Using formal methods for autonomous systems: Five recipes for formal verification

Formal Methods are mathematically-based techniques for software design and engineering, which enable the unambiguous description of reasoning about a system’s behaviour. Autonomous systems use to make decisions without human control, often embedded in robotic system, safety-critical, increasingly being introduced into everyday settings. need robust development verification methods, but formal methods practitioners asked: Why Systems? To answer this question, position paper describes five recipes formally verifying aspects an autonomous collected from literature. The examples how can be effective tool systems. During design, they requirements; development, specifications verified against components may synthesised specifications; behaviour monitored at runtime compared its original specification. Modern include highly automated support, enables exhaustive checking state space. This argues that powerful repertoire safe systems, alongside other engineering techniques.