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Formal Verification of a Distributed Algorithm for Task Execution

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In a dynamic environment, the accomplishment of a mission composed of multi-robot tasks is quite a challenging problem. To execute collaborative tasks successfully, robots may need to be present at the location of the task. However, the required robots may not be present at the location of the task. A distributed algorithm has been proposed recently for such task execution. A model checker can analyze the behavior of the algorithm. In this paper, we formally model the algorithm using the PRISM model checker. We identify some interesting safety and liveness properties of the algorithm and perform extensive simulations of the algorithm. The results validate that the behavior of the algorithm is as expected.

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The authors thank the anonymous reviewers of ICCSA 2020 for their valuable suggestions. The second author was in part supported by a research grant from Google.

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    Amar Nath & Rajdeep Niyogi

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Nath, A., Niyogi, R. (2020). Formal Verification of a Distributed Algorithm for Task Execution. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020. ICCSA 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12253. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58814-4_9

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