Proceedings Second Workshop on Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems

TL;DR

This workshop focuses on applying formal methods to autonomous systems, addressing their unique safety-critical, cyber-physical, hybrid, and real-time challenges, and highlighting recent research and industrial applications.

Contribution

It consolidates recent advances and discusses future directions for formal methods in the development and verification of autonomous systems.

Findings

Formal methods are increasingly applied to autonomous systems.

Successful industrial applications demonstrate practical viability.

Ongoing research addresses safety and real-time constraints.

Abstract

Autonomous systems are highly complex and present unique challenges for the application of formal methods. Autonomous systems act without human intervention, and are often embedded in a robotic system, so that they can interact with the real world. As such, they exhibit the properties of safety-critical, cyber-physical, hybrid, and real-time systems. The goal of FMAS is to bring together leading researchers who are tackling the unique challenges of autonomous systems using formal methods, to present recent and ongoing work. We are interested in the use of formal methods to specify, model, or verify autonomous or robotic systems; in whole or in part. We are also interested in successful industrial applications and potential future directions for this emerging application of formal methods.