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Kripke modelling and verification of temporal specifications of a multiple UAV system

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A verifiable multiple UAV system cooperatively monitoring a road network is presented in this paper. The focus is on formal modelling and verification which can guarantee correctness of concurrent reactive systems such as multi-UAV systems. Kripke modelling is used to formally model the distributed cooperative control strategy, and to verify correctness of the specifications. Desirable properties of the mission such as liveness are specified in Computation Tree Logic (CTL). Model checking technique is used to exhaustively explore the state space to verify whether the system behaviour, modelled by Kripke model, satisfies the specifications. Violation of a specification is analysed by means of the counter-example generated by SMV model checking tool.

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    Gopinadh Sirigineedi

  2. Department of Informatics and Systems Engineering, Cranfield University, Shrivenham, UK

    Antonios Tsourdos, Brian A. White & Rafał Żbikowski

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Sirigineedi, G., Tsourdos, A., White, B.A. et al. Kripke modelling and verification of temporal specifications of a multiple UAV system. Ann Math Artif Intell 63, 31–52 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10472-011-9270-x

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