RoboTest: : Systematic Model-Based Testing and Simulation of Mobile Autonomous Robots
Lead Research Organisation:
University of York
Department Name: Computer Science
Abstract
Mobile and autonomous robots have an increasingly important role in industry and the wider society; from driverless vehicles to home assistance, potential applications are numerous. The UK government identified robotics as a key technology that will lead us to future economic growth (tinyurl.com/q8bhcy7). They have recognised, however, that autonomous robots are complex and typically operate in ever-changing environments (tinyurl.com/o2u2ts7). How can we be confident that they perform useful functions, as required, but are safe?
It is standard practice to use testing to check correctness and safety. The software-development practice for robotics typically includes testing within simulations, before robots are built, and then testing of the actual robots. Simulations have several benefits: we can test early, and test execution is cheaper and faster. For example, simulation does not require a robot to move physically. Testing with the real robots is, however, still needed, since we cannot be sure that a simulation captures all the important aspects of the hardware and environment.
In the current scenario, test generation is typically manual; this makes testing expensive and unreliable, and introduces delays. Manual test generation is error-prone and can lead to tests that produce the wrong verdict. If a test incorrectly states that the robot has a failure, then developers have to investigate, with extra cost and time. If a test incorrectly states that the robot behaves as expected, then a faulty system may be released. Without a systematic approach, tests may also identify infeasible environments; such tests cannot be used with the real robot. To make matters worse, manual test generation limits the number of tests produced.
All this affects the cost and quality of robot software, and is in contrast with current practice in other safety-critical areas, like the transport industry, which is highly regulated. Translation of technology, however, is not trivial. For example, lack of a driver to correct mistakes or respond to unforeseen circumstances leads to a much larger set of working conditions for an autonomous vehicle. Another example is provided by probabilistic algorithms, which make the robot behaviour nondeterministic, and so, difficult to repeat in testing and more difficult to characterise as correct or not.
We will address all these issues with novel automated test-generation techniques for mobile and autonomous robots. To use our techniques, a RoboTest tester constructs a model of the robot using a familiar notation already employed in the design of simulations and implementations. After that, instead of spending time designing simulation scenarios, the RoboTest tester, with the push of a button, generates tests. With RoboTest, testing is cheaper, since it takes less time, and is more effective, because the RoboTest tester can use many more tests, especially when using a simulation.
To execute the tests, the RoboTest tester can choose from a few simulators employing a variety of approaches to programming. Execution of the tests also follows the push of a button. Yet another button translates simulation to deployment tests. So, the RoboTest tester can trace back the results from the deployment tests to the simulation and the original model. So, the RoboTest tester is in a strong position to understand the reality gap between the simulation and the real world.
The RoboTest tester knows that the verdicts for the tests are correct, and understands what the testing achieves; for example, it can be guaranteed to find faults of an identified class. So, the RoboTest tester can answer the very difficult question: have we tested enough?
In conclusion, RoboTest will move the testing of mobile and autonomous robots onto a sound footing. RoboTest will make testing more efficient and effective in terms of person effort, and so, achieve longer term reduced costs.
It is standard practice to use testing to check correctness and safety. The software-development practice for robotics typically includes testing within simulations, before robots are built, and then testing of the actual robots. Simulations have several benefits: we can test early, and test execution is cheaper and faster. For example, simulation does not require a robot to move physically. Testing with the real robots is, however, still needed, since we cannot be sure that a simulation captures all the important aspects of the hardware and environment.
In the current scenario, test generation is typically manual; this makes testing expensive and unreliable, and introduces delays. Manual test generation is error-prone and can lead to tests that produce the wrong verdict. If a test incorrectly states that the robot has a failure, then developers have to investigate, with extra cost and time. If a test incorrectly states that the robot behaves as expected, then a faulty system may be released. Without a systematic approach, tests may also identify infeasible environments; such tests cannot be used with the real robot. To make matters worse, manual test generation limits the number of tests produced.
All this affects the cost and quality of robot software, and is in contrast with current practice in other safety-critical areas, like the transport industry, which is highly regulated. Translation of technology, however, is not trivial. For example, lack of a driver to correct mistakes or respond to unforeseen circumstances leads to a much larger set of working conditions for an autonomous vehicle. Another example is provided by probabilistic algorithms, which make the robot behaviour nondeterministic, and so, difficult to repeat in testing and more difficult to characterise as correct or not.
We will address all these issues with novel automated test-generation techniques for mobile and autonomous robots. To use our techniques, a RoboTest tester constructs a model of the robot using a familiar notation already employed in the design of simulations and implementations. After that, instead of spending time designing simulation scenarios, the RoboTest tester, with the push of a button, generates tests. With RoboTest, testing is cheaper, since it takes less time, and is more effective, because the RoboTest tester can use many more tests, especially when using a simulation.
To execute the tests, the RoboTest tester can choose from a few simulators employing a variety of approaches to programming. Execution of the tests also follows the push of a button. Yet another button translates simulation to deployment tests. So, the RoboTest tester can trace back the results from the deployment tests to the simulation and the original model. So, the RoboTest tester is in a strong position to understand the reality gap between the simulation and the real world.
The RoboTest tester knows that the verdicts for the tests are correct, and understands what the testing achieves; for example, it can be guaranteed to find faults of an identified class. So, the RoboTest tester can answer the very difficult question: have we tested enough?
In conclusion, RoboTest will move the testing of mobile and autonomous robots onto a sound footing. RoboTest will make testing more efficient and effective in terms of person effort, and so, achieve longer term reduced costs.
Organisations
- University of York, United Kingdom (Collaboration, Lead Research Organisation)
- Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) (Collaboration)
- ABB Group, Switzerland (Collaboration)
- East China Normal University, China (Collaboration)
- Grants Admin Office (Collaboration)
- University of Agder (Collaboration)
- University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- Simomics Ltd (Collaboration)
- Seoul National University (Collaboration)
- Southwest University (Collaboration)
- Fudan University (Collaboration)
- Aarhus University, Denmark (Collaboration)
- Transport Systems Catapult (Collaboration)
- Federal University of Pernambuco (Collaboration)
- University of Bremen (Collaboration)
- Thales Group, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- Technical University Berlin (Collaboration)
- Lancaster University (Collaboration)
- Altran (Collaboration)
- Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India (Collaboration)
- King's College London, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
Publications

A. Miyazawa
(2020)
RoboSim Physical Modelling Reference Manual

Alam MS
(2022)
Repurposing of existing antibiotics for the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
in In silico pharmacology

Andrew Walter
(2021)
Implementation of Reduced Precision Integer Epigenetic Networks in Hardware

Barnett W
(2022)
Architectural modelling for robotics: RoboArch and the CorteX example
in Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Barnett W
(2018)
Framework for the Simulation of Robochart Models Using ROS

Baxter J
(2021)
Sound reasoning in tock-CSP
in Acta Informatica

Baxter J
(2021)
Sound reasoning in tock-CSP
in Acta Informatica

Byerly Flint H
(2022)
You vs. us: framing adaptation behavior in terms of private or social benefits.
in Climatic change

Cavalcanti A
(2021)
RoboStar modelling stack: tackling the reality gap
Description | This is the same as EP/R025134/1. |
Exploitation Route | This is the same as EP/R025134/1. |
Sectors | Other |
Description | We have participated of public engagement activities to disseminate the work. We have reached out to schools, the York Festival of Ideas, and the Pint of Science for two years now. We have also developed new material for YorkTalks (https://www.york.ac.uk/research/events/yorktalks/). We have material ready and are developing more material to engage in this form of activity. As a result, we have also trained the Research Assistants in dealing with the public. We are engaging with industry nationally and internationally to train human resources and support the development of new tools. Colleagues in industry are also leading on the effort. Colleagues in academia are also building on our work to develop their own research independently. A couple of examples are reported in W. Lindoso, S. C. Nogueira, R. Domingues, L. Lima: Visual Specification of Properties for Robotic Designs. In: S. Campos and M. Minea (eds.) Formal Methods: Foundations and Applications - 24th Brazilian Symposium, SBMF 2021, Virtual Event, December 6-10, 2021, Proceedings. pp. 34-52. Springer (2021). and T. Lecomte, D. Déharbe, P. Fournier, M. Oliveira: The CLEARSY safety platform: 5 years of research, development and deployment. Sci. Comput. Program. 199, 102524 (2020). |
First Year Of Impact | 2018 |
Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Transport |
Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic |
Description | 1000 Talents Programme |
Amount | ¥1,950,000 (CNY) |
Organisation | National Science Foundation China |
Sector | Public |
Country | China |
Start | 11/2019 |
End | 11/2024 |
Description | Aarhus University Centre for Digital Twins |
Amount | 970,392 kr. (DKK) |
Funding ID | 2018-019 |
Organisation | Aarhus University |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | Denmark |
Start | 11/2019 |
End | 11/2024 |
Description | Chair in Emerging Technologies |
Amount | £1,300,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Royal Academy of Engineering |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2018 |
End | 02/2028 |
Description | Chair in Emerging Technologies Top-Up Award 1 |
Amount | £55,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | CiET1819\TUA\11 |
Organisation | Royal Academy of Engineering |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2019 |
End | 02/2020 |
Description | Chair in Emerging Technologies Top-Up Award 2 |
Amount | £55,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | CiET1920\TUA\13 |
Organisation | Royal Academy of Engineering |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2020 |
End | 02/2021 |
Description | Chair in Emerging Technologies Top-Up Award 4 |
Amount | £55,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | CiET1920\TUA\2021\4 |
Organisation | Royal Academy of Engineering |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2021 |
End | 02/2022 |
Description | CyPhyAssure: Compositional Safety Assurance for Cyber-Physical Systems |
Amount | £562,549 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/S001190/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 05/2018 |
End | 07/2021 |
Description | Regional Engagement Awards |
Amount | £75,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | REA1920\3\20 |
Organisation | Royal Academy of Engineering |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2020 |
End | 12/2023 |
Description | UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Node in Resilience |
Amount | £3,033,177 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/V026747/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2020 |
End | 04/2024 |
Description | UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Node in Verifiability |
Amount | £2,923,652 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/V026801/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2020 |
End | 04/2024 |
Description | Aarhus University Centre for Digital Twins |
Organisation | Aarhus University |
Department | School of Engineering |
Country | Denmark |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Research collaboration with Professor Peter Gorm Larsen at Aarhus University's Centre for Digital Twins. Appointment as Adjunct Professor with support for activities, including regular visits. Appointment of Larsen as Visiting Professor at York. |
Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration on research papers and research proposals. Joint supervision of students at Aarhus. |
Impact | Collaboration with Cláudio Gomes on a paper: Uncertainty quantification and runtime monitoring using environment-aware digital twins. Paper accepted for ISoLA conference 2020, but delayed to 2021 because of pandemic. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Adjunct Professorship, Southwest University, Chongqing, China |
Organisation | Southwest University |
Country | China |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Collaboration on a joint research project on human-cyber-physical systems. Appointment as Adjunct professor at Southwest University. Supervision of joint research students at Southwest University. Personal research fund for JCPW at Southwest University. Collaboration on the verification of neural networks. |
Collaborator Contribution | Joint research papers and research proposals. Proposed joint research laboratory. Joint direction of FM4AI research programme. |
Impact | Published a paper: Hengjun Zhao, Xia Zeng, Taolue Chen, Zhiming Liu, Jim Woodcock: Learning Safe Neural Network Controllers with Barrier Certificates. SETTA 2020: 177-185 |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Applicable Formal Methods |
Organisation | Aarhus University |
Country | Denmark |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Expertise in theory and practice of formal methods. |
Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in theory and practice of formal methods. |
Impact | Publications: 1. Mario Gleirscher, Simon Foster, Jim Woodcock: New Opportunities for Integrated Formal Methods. ACM Comput. Surv. 52(6): 117:1-117:36 (2020) 2. Mario Gleirscher, Jaco van de Pol, Jim Woodcock: A Manifesto for Applicable Formal Methods. CoRR abs/2112.12758 (2021) 3. Mario Gleirscher, Jaco van de Pol, Jim Woodcock: Proceedings First Workshop on Applicable Formal Methods, AppFM@FM 2021, virtual, 23rd November 2021. EPTCS 349, 2021 Workshop: First Workshop on Applicable Formal Methods, AppFM@FM 2021 |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Applicable Formal Methods |
Organisation | University of Bremen |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Expertise in theory and practice of formal methods. |
Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in theory and practice of formal methods. |
Impact | Publications: 1. Mario Gleirscher, Simon Foster, Jim Woodcock: New Opportunities for Integrated Formal Methods. ACM Comput. Surv. 52(6): 117:1-117:36 (2020) 2. Mario Gleirscher, Jaco van de Pol, Jim Woodcock: A Manifesto for Applicable Formal Methods. CoRR abs/2112.12758 (2021) 3. Mario Gleirscher, Jaco van de Pol, Jim Woodcock: Proceedings First Workshop on Applicable Formal Methods, AppFM@FM 2021, virtual, 23rd November 2021. EPTCS 349, 2021 Workshop: First Workshop on Applicable Formal Methods, AppFM@FM 2021 |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | CSP-based testing |
Organisation | University of Bremen |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Expertise in CSP and its semantics |
Collaborator Contribution | Expertise on testing and automation |
Impact | J. Peleska, W. l. Huang, and A. L. C. Cavalcanti. Finite complete suites for CSP refinement testing. Science of Computer Programming, 179:1 -- 23, 2019. A. L. C. Cavalcanti, W.-L. Huang, J. Peleska, and J. C. P. Woodcock. CSP and Kripke Structures. In M. Leucker, C. Rueda, and F. D. Valencia, editors, Theoretical Aspects of Computing, pages 505--523. Springer, 2015. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | Collaboration on RoboSim language: semantics, verification, examples, tools. |
Organisation | Federal University of Pernambuco |
Country | Brazil |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Training on robotics |
Collaborator Contribution | Partnership in the design and implementation of RoboSim |
Impact | Joint papers. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaboration with Univesity of Agder, NMBU, and ABB Robotics |
Organisation | ABB Group |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | We have provided insight into the use of tools and techniques for modelling and verification of a High-Voltage Controller (HVC) robotic system. |
Collaborator Contribution | They have brought a case study of a High-Voltage Controller, which is at the core of a painting robot developed at ABB Robotics. They have used RoboChart and RoboTool to model the software controller and perform formal verification of safety properties. Work is ongoing towards verification including a model of the physical robotic platform. |
Impact | * A case study, including two models. * Improvements to the implementation of the semantics of RoboChart for model-checking. * A publication: Murray Y, Anisi D, Sirevåg M, Ribeiro P, Hagag R. (2020). Safety Assurance of a High Voltage Controller for an Industrial Robotic System. Formal Methods: Foundations and Applications - 23rd Brazilian Symposium, SBMF 2020, Ouro Preto, Brazil, November 25-27, 2020, Proceedings. (pp. 45-63). |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Collaboration with Univesity of Agder, NMBU, and ABB Robotics |
Organisation | Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) |
Country | Norway |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We have provided insight into the use of tools and techniques for modelling and verification of a High-Voltage Controller (HVC) robotic system. |
Collaborator Contribution | They have brought a case study of a High-Voltage Controller, which is at the core of a painting robot developed at ABB Robotics. They have used RoboChart and RoboTool to model the software controller and perform formal verification of safety properties. Work is ongoing towards verification including a model of the physical robotic platform. |
Impact | * A case study, including two models. * Improvements to the implementation of the semantics of RoboChart for model-checking. * A publication: Murray Y, Anisi D, Sirevåg M, Ribeiro P, Hagag R. (2020). Safety Assurance of a High Voltage Controller for an Industrial Robotic System. Formal Methods: Foundations and Applications - 23rd Brazilian Symposium, SBMF 2020, Ouro Preto, Brazil, November 25-27, 2020, Proceedings. (pp. 45-63). |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Collaboration with Univesity of Agder, NMBU, and ABB Robotics |
Organisation | University of Agder |
Country | Norway |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We have provided insight into the use of tools and techniques for modelling and verification of a High-Voltage Controller (HVC) robotic system. |
Collaborator Contribution | They have brought a case study of a High-Voltage Controller, which is at the core of a painting robot developed at ABB Robotics. They have used RoboChart and RoboTool to model the software controller and perform formal verification of safety properties. Work is ongoing towards verification including a model of the physical robotic platform. |
Impact | * A case study, including two models. * Improvements to the implementation of the semantics of RoboChart for model-checking. * A publication: Murray Y, Anisi D, Sirevåg M, Ribeiro P, Hagag R. (2020). Safety Assurance of a High Voltage Controller for an Industrial Robotic System. Formal Methods: Foundations and Applications - 23rd Brazilian Symposium, SBMF 2020, Ouro Preto, Brazil, November 25-27, 2020, Proceedings. (pp. 45-63). |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Distinguished Visiting Professor |
Organisation | Fudan University |
Country | China |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | New appointment for Prof Timmis to explore further applications of the technology in intelligent robotics. |
Collaborator Contribution | Initial discussions on case studies and possible research student supervision. |
Impact | None as yes. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | ECNU - Shanghai UPPAL |
Organisation | East China Normal University (ECNU) |
Country | China |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We bring in expertise in robotics, simulation, and model-based engineering, including the design and semantics of RoboSim. |
Collaborator Contribution | They bring in expertise in timed and probabilistic model checking, and verification using bisimulation. |
Impact | A tool under development and a paper in preparation. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | FMI Step Negotiation |
Organisation | Aarhus University |
Department | Department of Engineering |
Country | Denmark |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Meetings to discuss how to verify co-simulation algorithms with algebraic loops and adaptive steps. Our insight is to use angelic nondeterminism to specify backtracking. This requires new theories of state-rich, reactive, angelic nondeterminism. |
Collaborator Contribution | Aarhus are the problem owners. They contributed expertise in the functional mock-up interface (FMI) and the problems of adaptive co-simulaiton. |
Impact | Paper: Simon Thrane Hansen, Cláudio Gomes, Maurizio Palmieri, Casper Thule, Jaco van de Pol, Jim Woodcock: Verification of Co-simulation Algorithms Subject to Algebraic Loops and Adaptive Steps. FMICS 2021: 3-20 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-85248-1_1 |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Formal methods in security |
Organisation | Aarhus University |
Department | Department of Engineering |
Country | Denmark |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Expertise in formal methods in security |
Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in formal methods in security |
Impact | Technical report: Tomas Kulik, Brijesh Dongol, Peter Gorm Larsen, Hugo Daniel Macedo, Steve Schneider, Peter Würtz Vinther Tran-Jørgensen, Jim Woodcock: A Survey of Practical Formal Methods for Security. CoRR abs/2109.01362 (2021) Accepted for publication in ACM Formal Aspects of Computing. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Formal methods in security |
Organisation | University of Surrey |
Department | Department of Computing |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Expertise in formal methods in security |
Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in formal methods in security |
Impact | Technical report: Tomas Kulik, Brijesh Dongol, Peter Gorm Larsen, Hugo Daniel Macedo, Steve Schneider, Peter Würtz Vinther Tran-Jørgensen, Jim Woodcock: A Survey of Practical Formal Methods for Security. CoRR abs/2109.01362 (2021) Accepted for publication in ACM Formal Aspects of Computing. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Interaction trees |
Organisation | Seoul National University |
Country | Korea, Republic of |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Expertise in UTP semantics and Isabelle. |
Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in interaction trees. |
Impact | Technical report: Simon Foster, Chung-Kil Hur, Jim Woodcock: Formally Verified Simulations of State-Rich Processes using Interaction Trees in Isabelle/HOL. CoRR abs/2105.05133 (2021) Implementation in Isabelle/UTP. Contributions to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching: PROF module. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Royal Academy of Engineering Industry Fellowship |
Organisation | Thales Group |
Department | Thales UK Limited |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Co-supervision of student and industry fellows. |
Collaborator Contribution | We are developing a technique to model and verify mobile and autonomous robots with humans in the loop. |
Impact | Multi-disciplinary: Engineering and Psychology. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Simomics Robotics |
Organisation | Simomics Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Expertise on modelling and verification of robotics systems. |
Collaborator Contribution | Tools for modelling auditing and assurance cases. |
Impact | A tool is under development. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Sound simulation of robotic applications |
Organisation | Federal University of Pernambuco |
Country | Brazil |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We have brought to them expertise on the results and approaches to modelling and verifying robotic applications, and developing simulations. |
Collaborator Contribution | They have brought in experience in model-based software engineering, compositional verification, testing, and probabilistic model checking. They have employed a research assistant to to work on the project and collaborate with our group. Together, we are developing a domain-specific language for modelling simulations. The language has a formal semantics under development. They are in charge of developing tool support for this language, and developing tool support for probabilistic reasoning. |
Impact | Tools are under development and papers are submitted. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Transport Systems Catapult - Autonomous Vehicle |
Organisation | Transport Systems Catapult |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Modelling, analysis and simulation of the control system of an autonomous vehicle. Using the tools and techniques developed in RoboCalc, we will explore the limits of what is possible to model, analyse and simulate with respect to a complex realistic controller where safety concerns are of utmost importance. |
Collaborator Contribution | They are experts in the development of transport systems. As well as their expertise, they will provides us with documentation and source code regarding the specific case study. |
Impact | *A case study, the largest RoboChart model to date. *Preliminary analysis results based on model checking technology. *The model and results will be published in a book, which is currently at the final stages of publication. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Uncertainty in autonomous systems |
Organisation | King's College London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Definition of probabilistic semantics in UTP and implementation in Isabelle/UTP. |
Collaborator Contribution | Problems, examples, case studies. |
Impact | No outputs yet. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Uncertainty in autonomous systems |
Organisation | University of York |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Definition of probabilistic semantics in UTP and implementation in Isabelle/UTP. |
Collaborator Contribution | Problems, examples, case studies. |
Impact | No outputs yet. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Verification and uncertainties in self-integrating systems |
Organisation | Aarhus University |
Department | Department of Engineering |
Country | Denmark |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Expertise in unification of semantics and verification techniques. |
Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in self-integrating systems and uncertainty. |
Impact | Publication: Lukas Esterle, Barry Porter, Jim Woodcock: Verification and Uncertainties in Self-integrating System. ACSOS-C 2021: 220-225 DOI: 10.1109/ACSOS-C52956.2021.00050 |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Verification and uncertainties in self-integrating systems |
Organisation | Lancaster University |
Department | School of Computing and Communications |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Expertise in unification of semantics and verification techniques. |
Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in self-integrating systems and uncertainty. |
Impact | Publication: Lukas Esterle, Barry Porter, Jim Woodcock: Verification and Uncertainties in Self-integrating System. ACSOS-C 2021: 220-225 DOI: 10.1109/ACSOS-C52956.2021.00050 |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Verification grand challenge history |
Organisation | Altran |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | History of the Verified Software Initiative |
Collaborator Contribution | Personal accounts of contributions to the Verified Software Initiative. |
Impact | Publication: Jim Woodcock, Janet Barnes, Rod Chapman, Simon Foster, Thomas Santen: Verification in the Grand Challenge. Theories of Programming 2021: 125-156 DOI: 10.1145/3477355.3477363 |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Verification grand challenge history |
Organisation | Technical University Berlin |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | History of the Verified Software Initiative |
Collaborator Contribution | Personal accounts of contributions to the Verified Software Initiative. |
Impact | Publication: Jim Woodcock, Janet Barnes, Rod Chapman, Simon Foster, Thomas Santen: Verification in the Grand Challenge. Theories of Programming 2021: 125-156 DOI: 10.1145/3477355.3477363 |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | bangalore-2018 |
Organisation | Indian Institute of Science Bangalore |
Country | India |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Newton grant from RAEng held by IIIT-B. Contributions on refinement of simulink models. |
Collaborator Contribution | Research in refinement of simulink models. |
Impact | Simon Foster, Kangfeng Ye, Ana Cavalcanti, Jim Woodcock: Calculational Verification of Reactive Programs with Reactive Relations and Kleene Algebra. RAMiCS 2018: 205-224 Simon Foster, Kangfeng Ye, Ana Cavalcanti, Jim Woodcock: Calculational Verification of Reactive Programs with Reactive Relations and Kleene Algebra. CoRR abs/1806.02101 (2018) |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | butterfield-tcd-march-2018 |
Organisation | Trinity College Dublin |
Department | Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute |
Country | Ireland |
Sector | Hospitals |
PI Contribution | Research discussions at TCD. |
Collaborator Contribution | Research discussions. |
Impact | Discussions on future research collaborations. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | chongqing-2-2018 |
Organisation | Southwest University |
Country | China |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Royal Society China Cost Share Programme |
Collaborator Contribution | Research contributions. |
Impact | None yet. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | chongqing2018 |
Organisation | Southwest University |
Country | China |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Royal Society China Cost Share Programme. |
Collaborator Contribution | Rsearch contributions. |
Impact | No outputs yet. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | digit-2018 |
Organisation | Aarhus University |
Department | Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies |
Country | Denmark |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Planning for future collaboration. |
Collaborator Contribution | Research exchanges. |
Impact | Proposal to Grundfos Foundation. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | peleska-testing-2018 |
Organisation | University of Bremen |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Rsearch discussions. |
Collaborator Contribution | Rsearch discussions. |
Impact | Research proposals. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Aarhus Lectures on probabilistic robotics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | I delivered a series of six lectures on probabilistic robotic control to undergraduates in engineering at Aarhus University. The lectures were prepared as curated videos with lecture notes. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | China Lectures on probabilistic robotics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | I delivered a series of six lectures on probabilistic robotic control. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | CyPhyAssure Spring School |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Participation in Spring School on the assurance of cyber-physical systems. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/circus/CyPhyAssure/school/ |
Description | DIGIT Advisory Board |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Participation in the advisory board of the center for digital twins at Aarhus University, |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | FM 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Talks and discussions with international colleagues. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Huawei Research Forum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Presentation on formal methods for assurance of security-related software in Huawei 5G products. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Huawei Research Symposium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Presentation of my research agenda to Huawei engineers. I gave advice on future research policy for their company. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | IFIP WG 2.3 Programming Methodology |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Hosted meeting of IFIP WG 2.3 on Programming Methodology. Organised scientific and social agenda, chaired the meeting, and gave an extended scientific talk. I involved my doctoral students and research assistants in the meeting. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://ifip-tc2-wg23.paluno.uni-due.de/?page_id=455 |
Description | Invited Lecture at University of Sheffield |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | the research at a level accessible to young researchers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Invited course at the School of Software, Northwest Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | This is a school organised by a consortium of Chinese universities that provides younger researchers with the background on the state of the art in the area of software engineering. The course sparked questions and discussion afterwards. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Invited course at the School of the International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | This is a school associated with an international conference that provides younger researchers with the background on the state of the art in the area of theoretical aspects of computing. The course sparked questions and discussion afterwards, and led to a publication. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://ictac2021.github.io/school.html |
Description | Invited lecture University of Leicester |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Present the research at a level accessible to young researchers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/informatics/news/researchevents/external |
Description | Invited lecture at the International School on Formal Methods and Theoretical Informatics (ETMF) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | This is a school associated with an international conference that provides younger students with the background to follow the paper presentations in the conference. The course sparked questions and discussion afterwards and during the main event. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://sites.google.com/computacao.ufcg.edu.br/sbmf2021/program |
Description | Invited talk at HIS (High- Integrity Software) 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Now in its sixth year, the mission of the High Integrity Software conference is to share challenges, best practice and experience between software engineering practitioners. The conference features talks from industrial and academic specialists which disseminate experience and knowledge of important techniques and methods that are applicable across industry sectors. I have presented the technology developed in our researcher. It sparked questions and discussion, afterwards, and later contacts with a view to exchange ideas and collaborate. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.his-2017.co.uk/ |
Description | Invited talk at the IROS2021 Workshop on Standardised Software Frameworks for Robotics in Nuclear |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This was a workshop organised by colleagues in industry. It gave us the opportunity to present our results and spark discussion with practitioners who are themselves interested in technological developments in the area. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://ukaeaevents.com/2021-ieee-rsj/ |
Description | Invited talk at the York & North Yorkshire LEP Skills Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Ana Cavalcanti delivered an invited talk at the York & North Yorkshire LEP Skills Conference on "Software Engineering for Robotics in Industry 4.0". The talk can be watched on YouTube |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.ynylep.com/news/festival-of-engagement/event/id/2220 |
Description | Invited talk on probabilistic robotics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | I delivered an invited talk at a summer school in Shanghai. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Newton Institue Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | I gave a talk about the impact of verification technology on practical application. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Opening of Aarhus Centre for Digital Twins |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Keynote talk on research direction at the opening of the Centre for Digital Twins at Aarhus University. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://digit.au.dk/research-projects/centre-for-digital-twins/ |
Description | Presentation at IFIP WG 2.3 Meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Recent work on priorities, related to the formal semantics of RoboChart and RoboSim, was presented to the Working Group on Programming Methodology, as well as to the invited speakers. The goal of the presentation was to disseminate our work and receive feedback on ongoing research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presentation at IFIP WG 2.3 Meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Our work on modelling for robotics was presented to the members of the Working Group on Programming Methodology, as well as to the invited observers. The goal of the presentation was to disseminate our work and receive feedback on current research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presentation at Pint of Science Festival 2018 in York |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The Pint of Science festival is run every year bringing researchers to local pubs to present their work to the general public. In this talk, we motivated our work using robotic demonstrators and presented our main results. The talk was followed by a number of interesting questions from the public. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/are-you-sure-you-are-safe |
Description | Presentation at Pint of Science Festival 2019 in York |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The Pint of Science festival is run every year bringing researchers to local pubs to present their work to the general public. In this talk, we presented our work on modelling and verifying the robot software, with particular focus on application of our approach to robot swarms. The talk was followed by a number of interesting questions from the public. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/-blurred-lines-boundaries-between-man-and-machine |
Description | Presentation at meeting with BSI |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | I presented an overview of the RoboCalc and RoboTest projects at a meeting with British Standards Institution and the Assuring Autonomy International Programme at York, which discussed standards in AI, robotics and autonomy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation of project to Thales |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Presentation of the project to consider possible collaboration. Six colleagues from Thales attended. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Public talk as part of YorkTalks |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | About 300 people attended an event in the university The talks sparked questions and discussion afterwards, with the public, and with other colleagues involved in the event. The aim of the overall event is to showcase the very best of the University's research across seven research themes in order to exemplify our commitment to research excellence which forms a key component of the University Strategy and the Research Strategy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.york.ac.uk/research/events/yorktalks/ |
Description | RAMiCS 2021 conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A talk about "Automated Reasoning for Probabilistic Sequential Programs with Theorem Proving" in the conference RAMiCS 2021 on November 4, 2021. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://ramics19.lis-lab.fr/ |
Description | RoboSoft: software engineering for robotics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | RoboSoft was a two-day event that will brought together researchers working on software engineering for robotics, developers working on the next generation of robotic systems in various areas of application, and regulation authorities interested in safety of robotic systems. RoboSoft provides a platform to establish software engineering for robotics as an important discipline in computer science and electronic engineering. The objective was to establish a common understanding of the challenges that need to be addressed to ensure that results are relevant to industrial practice and regulation. The group organised the whole event and gave three presentations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.raeng.org.uk/events/events-programme/2019/november/robosoft-software-engineering-for-rob... |
Description | Royal Academy of Engineering Research Forum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The Research Forum is a highlight of the Academy's activities. It showcases the world-class engineering research funded through the Academy's wide range of programmes. The event consists of a mix of keynote talks from current awardees and alumni. Awardees from across the portfolio of Academy's research schemes will also exhibit posters and demos throughout the day. The project was presented in a keynote talk. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.raeng.org.uk/events/events-programme/2019/november/research-forum |
Description | Symposium for Marie-Claude Gaudel |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | I gave a talk on software engineering for robotic control. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Talk at Verification Future Meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | I gave an invited talk at this industry meeting. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.testandverification.com/conferences/verification-futures/vf2019 |
Description | Verifiability Talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Presentation of the RoboStar approach to Software Engineering for Robotics, including modelling and testing |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Verifiability Talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Presentation on A Unifying Framework for Verifiability as part of the seminar series for the EPSRC Trusted Autonomous Systems Verifiability Node. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUv5i9NYgNU |
Description | Visit by Jan Pekeska |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Discussions on research collaboration. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Visit by Ziming Liiu |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Visit to discuss long-term research collaboration. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Visit from Southwest University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Visit from a delegation from Southwest University, Chongqing, China. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Visit from TCD Ireland |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Visit from colleagues from Trinity College Dublin. Contributions on probabilistic semantic for robotics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
Description | Visit ti Aarhus University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Visit to exchange research ideas. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Visit to Chongqing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Workshop on formal methods for human-cyber-=physical systems. I gave talks on software engineering for robotics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Visit to Chongqing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Visit Southwest University to give lectures and direct doctoral students. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Visit to IISc |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Presentation of research work. Exchange of research ideas for future research proposals. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Visit to IISc Bangalore |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Workshop at IISc funded by Royal Academy of Engineering. Discussed work on formal verification of operating system real-time kernels. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Visit to Malardalen University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | External examining of a doctoral student. Interaction with academic colleagues on research directions. Interaction with industry colleagues on research directions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Visit to Southwest University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Visit to exchange ideas. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | White Rose Retreat on Robotics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Discussed future collaborative in robotics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Workshop for Advisory Board and additional representatives from academia and industry |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Meeting of the Advisory Board to report on our results from RoboCalc and kick-off RoboTest. The joint meeting of the projects was very positive. There was a lot of discussion and good feedback. Further colleagues from industry asked to join the Advisory Board afterwards. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | YorRobots Exhibition |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | More than 100 researchers and industrialists working in the area of robotics attended a one-day exhibition involving talks, posters, and demonstrations of work carried out in the University of York and in industry around the UK. There was plenty of opportunity for discussion and engagement. I have presented the results and the vision for RoboCalc and RoboTest, and beyond. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.york.ac.uk/yorrobots/news-events/yorrobots-events/2020/exhibition-2020/ |
Description | YorRobots launch event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | This was an afternoon event organised for scientists across nine departments of the university: Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Environment, Music, Law, Philosophy, and Mathematics. We presented our work, and as a result created a network of scientists in robotics at York. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.york.ac.uk/yorrobots/ |
Description | women+@DCS seminar on Software Engineering for Robotics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | This activity supports the effort at the University of Sheffield to engage women in science. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/womendcs/ |