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Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) with autonomous decision-making capabilities are of increasing interest for a wide area of applications such as logistics and disaster recovery. In order to ensure the correct behavior of the system and to recognize hazardous situations or system faults, we applied stream runtime monitoring techniques within the DLR ARTIS (Autonomous Research Testbed for Intelligent System) family of unmanned aircraft. We present our experience from specification elicitation, instrumentation, offline log-file analysis, and online monitoring on the flight computer on a test rig. The debugging and health management support through stream runtime monitoring techniques have proven highly beneficial for system design and development. At the same time, the project has identified usability improvements to the specification language, and has influenced the design of the language.
Partially supported by the European Research Council (ERC) Grant OSARES (No. 683300) and by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the Collaborative Research Center “Methods and Tools for Understanding and Controlling Privacy” (SFB 1223).
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Adolf, FM., Faymonville, P., Finkbeiner, B., Schirmer, S., Torens, C. (2017). Stream Runtime Monitoring on UAS. In: Lahiri, S., Reger, G. (eds) Runtime Verification. RV 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10548. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67531-2_3
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