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In this demo, we present how to develop a safe autonomous decision-making component using vGOAL. We use a real-world autonomous logistic system involving three autonomous mobile robots as a case study. We demonstrate (1) vGOAL is used to specify autonomous decision-making; (2) the automated PCTL model-checking process of vGOAL is used to generate a sound vGOAL specification; (3) the vGOAL interpreter is used as a safe autonomous decision-making component.

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Yang, Y., Holvoet, T. (2025). Developing a Safe Autonomous Logistic System with vGOAL. In: Mathieu, P., De la Prieta, F. (eds) Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Digital Twins: The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 15157. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70415-4_32

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