Analysis of Autonomous Mobile Collectives in Complex Physical Environments

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 19432 “Analysis of Autonomous Mobile Collectives in Complex Physical Environments”. Our working hypothesis for this seminar was that for systems of such complexity and criticality, the trustworthy certification and the successful operation in society will strongly benefit from the coordinated application of several rigorous engineering methods and formal analysis techniques. In this context, we discussed the state-of-the-art based on the working example of a Smart Farm. Our aim was to understand the practical challenges and the capabilities and limitations of recent formal modelling and analysis techniques when tackling these challenges, and to initiate a special research community on the verification of autonomous collectives.