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Contract-Based Specification Refinement and Repair for Mission Planning

Robotics 2022-11-23 v1 Formal Languages and Automata Theory Software Engineering

Abstract

We address the problem of modeling, refining, and repairing formal specifications for robotic missions using assume-guarantee contracts. We show how to model mission specifications at various levels of abstraction and implement them using a library of pre-implemented specifications. Suppose the specification cannot be met using components from the library. In that case, we compute a proxy for the best approximation to the specification that can be generated using elements from the library. Afterward, we propose a systematic way to either 1) search for and refine the `missing part' of the specification that the library cannot meet or 2) repair the current specification such that the existing library can refine it. Our methodology for searching and repairing mission requirements leverages the quotient, separation, composition, and merging operations between contracts.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2211.11908,
  title  = {Contract-Based Specification Refinement and Repair for Mission Planning},
  author = {Piergiuseppe Mallozzi and Inigo Incer and Pierluigi Nuzzo and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.11908},
  year   = {2022}
}
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