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Verification of algorithms and data structures utilized in modern autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles for land, sea, air, and space presents a significant challenge. Autonomy algorithms, e.g., route planning, pattern matching, and inference, are based on complex data structures such as directed graphs and algebraic data types. Proof techniques for these data structures exist, but are oriented to unbounded, functional realizations, which are not typically efficient in either space or time. Autonomous systems designers, on the other hand, generally limit the space and time allocations for any given function, and require that algorithms deliver results within a finite time, or suffer a watchdog timeout. Furthermore, high-assurance design rules frown on dynamic memory allocation, preferring simple array-based data structure implementations. In order to provide efficient implementations of high-level data structures used in autonomous systems with the high assurance needed for accreditation, we have developed a verifying compilation technique that supports the "natural" functional proof style, but yet applies to more efficient data structure implementations. Our toolchain features c

Author

Hardin, David; Slind, Konrad

Published

2018

Language

EN