History

History of Verification of Autonomous Systems

History of Autonomous systems

According to common knowledge and history records, the two first autonomous robots designed and implemented are the following:

• Tortoises by Grey Walters in the 1940s [1] [2]

• Shakey the robot between 1966 and 1972 [3]

Prior Work in Related Fields

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Software Assurance

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Formal Methods

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Early Activities

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Developing As A Field

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Some of the first instances of the application of verification tools and techniques to autonomous systems appear in late 1990s and early 2000s.

• "Towards automatic verification of autonomous systems", R. Simmons, C. Pecheur, G. Srinivasan, 2000. link

Formal methods applied to fault diagnosis systems and mobile robots.

• "Verification of autonomous systems using embedded behavior auditors", D. Dvorak, E. Tailor link

Formal methods applied to spacecraft and rovers.

Later work:

• "Verifying Autonomous Systems", M. Fisher, L. Dennis, M. Webster. In Communications of the ACM, 2013.

IEEE Technical Committee

Drawing on the efforts from the global working group, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee on Verification of Autonomous Systems was officially inaugurated in 2019. The first co-chairs were Signe Redfield, Michael Fisher, and Dejanira Araiza-Illan.

IEEE Standards Development

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