Synthesis and verification of mission plans for multiple autonomous agents under complex road conditions
(2024) ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology — Vol. 33, n° 7, p. 1-46 (2024)
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- Mission planning for multi-agent autonomous systems aims to generate feasible and optimal mission plans that satisfy given requirements. In this article, we propose a tool-supported mission-planning methodology that combines (i) a path-planning algorithm for synthesizing path plans that are safe in environments with complex road conditions, and (ii) a task-scheduling method for synthesizing task plans that schedule the tasks in the right and fastest order, taking into account the planned paths. The task-scheduling method is based on model checking, which provides means of automatically generating task execution orders that satisfy the requirements and ensure the correctness and efficiency of the plans by construction. We implement our approach in a tool named MALTA, which offers a user-friendly GUI for configuring mission requirements, a module for path planning, an integration with the model checker UPPAAL, and functions for automatic generation of formal models, and parsing of the execution traces of models. Experiments with the tool demonstrate its applicability and performance in various configurations of an industrial case study of an autonomous quarry. We also show the adaptability of our tool by employing it in a special case of an industrial case study.
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Rong Gu, Baranov, E., Afshin Ameri, Cristina Cerschi Seceleanu, Eduard Paul Enoiu, Baran Çürüklü, Legay, A., & Kristina Lundqvist. (2024). Synthesis and verification of mission plans for multiple autonomous agents under complex road conditions. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 33(7), 1-46. https://doi.org/10.1145/3672445 (Original work published 2024)