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This paper addresses the problem of improving response times of robots implemented in the Robotic Operating System (ROS) using formal verification of computational-time feasibility. In order to verify the real time behaviour of a robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Mohammed Y. Hazim , Hongyang Qu , Sandor M. Veres

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) are widely used in industrial automation to control physical systems. As PLC applications become increasingly complex, ensuring their correctness is crucial. Existing formal verification techniques…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jaeseo Lee , Kyungmin Bae

Discrete-time Control Barrier Functions (DTCBFs) form a powerful control theoretic tool to guarantee safety and synthesize safe controllers for discrete-time dynamical systems. In this paper, we provide an optimization-based algorithm,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Erfan Shakhesi , W. P. M. H. Heemels , Alexander Katriniok

Ladder Logics is a programming language standardized in IEC 61131-3 and widely used for programming industrial Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC). A PLC program consists of inputs (whose values are given at runtime by factory sensors),…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Denis Cousineau , David Mentré , Hiroaki Inoue

System integration testing is the process of testing a system by the stepwise integration of sub-components. Usually these sub-components are already verified to guarantee their correct functional behavior. By integration of these verified…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Susanne Kandl , Martin Elshuber

Verification is one of the central tasks in circuit and system design. While simulation and emulation are widely used, complete correctness can only be ensured based on formal proof techniques. But these approaches often have very high run…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Rolf Drechsler

The applications for IEC 61499 that is standard architecture for developing the applications of distributed control and measurement in factory automation, have the connected structure of the graphical elements called BFB(basic function…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Won-je Kim , Song-il Cha , Kyong-Jin Sok

Verifying specifications for large-scale control systems is of utmost importance, but can be hard in practice as most formal verification methods can not handle high-dimensional dynamics. Contract theory has been proposed as a modular…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-03 Miel Sharf , Bart Besselink , Karl Henrik Johansson

The increasing use of model-based tools enables further use of formal verification techniques in the context of distributed real-time systems. To avoid state explosion, it is necessary to construct verification models that focus on the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Chih-Hong Cheng , Christian Buckl , Javier Esparza , Alois Knoll

State and input constraints are ubiquitous in control system design. One recently developed tool to deal with these constraints is control barrier functions (CBF) which transform state constraints into conditions in the input space.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Xiao Tan , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We give a process for verifying numerical programs against their functional specifications. Our implementation is capable of automatically verifying programs against tight error bounds featuring common elementary functions. We demonstrate…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Junaid Rasheed , Michal Konečný

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are often built from geographically distributed components and often use programmable logic controllers for localized processes. Since verification of such systems is challenging because of both time…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Ritam Ganguly , Borzoo Bonakdarpour

SystemC-based Virtual Prototypes (VPs) at the Electronic System Level (ESL) are increasingly adopted by the semiconductor industry. The main reason is that VPs are much earlier available, and their simulation is orders of magnitude faster…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Mehran Goli , Rolf Drechsler

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) play a critical role in the industrial control systems. Vulnerabilities in PLC programs might lead to attacks causing devastating consequences to the critical infrastructure, as shown in Stuxnet and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Ruimin Sun , Alejandro Mera , Long Lu , David Choffnes

The technology of formal software verification has made spectacular advances, but how much does it actually benefit the development of practical software? Considerable disagreement remains about the practicality of building systems with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Li Huang , Sophie Ebersold , Alexander Kogtenkov , Bertrand Meyer , Yinling Liu

Many simulation based Bounded Model Checking approaches to System Level Formal Verification (SLFV) have been devised. Typically such approaches exploit the capability of simulators to save computation time by saving and restoring the state…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Toni Mancini , Federico Mari , Annalisa Massini , Igor Melatti , Enrico Tronci

Runtime verification is checking whether a system execution satisfies or violates a given correctness property. A procedure that automatically, and typically on the fly, verifies conformance of the system's behavior to the specified…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-03-06 Mikhail Chupilko , Alexander Kamkin

A program verifier produces reliable results only if both the logic used to justify the program's correctness is sound, and the implementation of the program verifier is itself correct. Whereas it is common to formally prove soundness of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Gaurav Parthasarathy , Peter Müller , Alexander J. Summers

Quantum error correction (QEC) is fundamental for suppressing noise in quantum hardware and enabling fault-tolerant quantum computation. In this paper, we propose an efficient verification framework for QEC programs. We define an assertion…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Qifan Huang , Li Zhou , Wang Fang , Mengyu Zhao , Mingsheng Ying

Software correctness is ensured mathematically through formal verification, which involves the resources of generating formal requirement specifications and having an implementation that must be verified. Tools such as model-checkers and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Arshad Beg , Diarmuid O'Donoghue , Rosemary Monahan