Proceedings Second Workshop on Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems
This workshop aims to advance the application of formal methods for researchers working on the specification, modeling, and verification of autonomous and robotic systems.
This paper is a collection of works presented at the Second Workshop on Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems (FMAS). It addresses the application of formal methods to the unique challenges of autonomous systems, which are characterized by being safety-critical, cyber-physical, hybrid, and real-time.
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.