FormaliSE 2026
Sun 12 - Mon 13 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
co-located with ICSE 2026
Sun 12 Apr 2026 11:30 - 12:00 at Oceania VIII - Session 1: AI and Safety

Autonomous inspection robots operate in hazardous and safety-critical environments where assurance must extend beyond conventional testing. This paper presents a model-driven assurance workflow for the Subterranean Tunnel Autonomous Inspection Robot (ST-AIR), integrating safety, mission, and coordination reasoning within formally verified design models. Behavioural requirements derived from hazard analysis are expressed as formally specified properties and automatically verified through a compositional workflow. The workflow validates individual controllers in isolation and then confirms their synchronised behaviour through integrated harness verification, producing machine-checked evidence of correctness. The verified models capture 29 hazard- and mission-driven behaviours covering gas, water ingress, slope, corrosion, and visibility hazards. Results demonstrate how compositional model verification and structured property templates provide reusable, certification-oriented assurance artefacts that strengthen the dependability of safety-critical autonomous systems.

Sun 12 Apr

Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change

11:00 - 12:30
Session 1: AI and SafetyResearch Track / FormaliSE Program at Oceania VIII
11:00
30m
Talk
Optimisation of Disaster Resource Distribution with Risk Uncertainty Using Fuzzy Theory
Research Track
Diego Perez-Palacin Linnaeus University, Kenneth Johnson Auckland University of Technology, Vincenzo Grassi University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Raffaela Mirandola Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
11:30
30m
Talk
Model-Driven Assurance for Robotic Controllers: A Subterranean Tunnel Inspection Case Study
Research Track
Yasmeen Rafiq University of Manchester, Christopher Bishop University of Manchester, Simon Watson University of Manchester, Louise Dennis University of Manchester, Frederic Wheeler University of Manchester, John Brotherhood University of Manchester, Marti Morta Garriga University of Manchester, Robert Hierons The University of Sheffield
12:00
15m
Talk
Verification-Aware Convolution Neural Networks for Speech Recognition: A case study
Research Track
Syed Ali Asadullah Bukhari Maynooth University, Rosemary Monahan National University of Ireland, Barak A. Pearlmutter National University of Ireland
12:15
15m
Talk
Fighting AI with AI: Leveraging Foundation Models for Assuring AI-Enabled Safety-Critical Systems
Research Track
Anastasia Mavridou KBR / NASA Ames Research Center, Divya Gopinath KBR; NASA Ames, Corina S. Păsăreanu Carnegie Mellon University; NASA Ames