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Skovbekk, John (author), Laurenti, L. (author), Frew, Eric (author), Lahijanian, Morteza (author)Verifying the performance of safety-critical, stochastic systems with complex noise distributions is difficult. We introduce a general procedure for the finite abstraction of nonlinear stochastic systems with nonstandard (e.g., non-affine, non-symmetric, non-unimodal) noise distributions for verification purposes. The method uses a finite...journal article 2023
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Mitchell, Daniel (author), Blanche, Jamie (author), Harper, Sam (author), Lim, Theodore (author), Gupta, Ranjeetkumar (author), Zaki, Osama (author), Tang, Wenshuo (author), Robu, Valentin (author), Watson, Simon (author), Flynn, David (author)The UK has set plans to increase offshore wind capacity from 22GW to 154GW by 2030. With such tremendous growth, the sector is now looking to Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (RAI) in order to tackle lifecycle service barriers as to support sustainable and profitable offshore wind energy production. Today, RAI applications are...review 2022
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Javanmardi, N. (author), Borja Rosales, L.P. (author), Yazdanpanah, M. J. (author), Scherpen, J.M.A. (author)This paper investigates a distributed formation tracking control law for large-scale networks of mechanical systems. In particular, the formation network is represented by a directed communication graph with leaders and followers, where each agent is described as a port-Hamiltonian system with a constant mass matrix. Moreover, we adopt a...journal article 2022
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van Leeuwen, C.J. (author)In this thesis I research the ability of groups of agents to organize their collective behavior, without any human intervention. Using a framework for gathering information of the behavior, analyzing the performance, and updating the behavior, the agents can adapt to changing environments or user requirements. In my thesis I use different...doctoral thesis 2021
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Verdiesen, E.P. (author), Aler Tubella, Andrea (author), Dignum, M.V. (author)Accountability is a value often mentioned in the debate on intelligent systems and their increased pervasiveness in our society. When focusing specifically on autonomous systems, a critical gap emerges: although there is much work on governance and attribution of accountability, there is a significant lack of methods for the operationalisation...journal article 2021
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Fisher, Michael (author), Mascardi, Viviana (author), Rozier, Kristin Yvonne (author), Schlingloff, Bernd-Holger (author), Winikof, Michael (author), Yorke-Smith, N. (author)A computational system is called autonomous if it is able to make its own decisions, or take its own actions, without human supervision or control. The capability and spread of such systems have reached the point where they are beginning to touch much of everyday life. However, regulators grapple with how to deal with autonomous systems, for...journal article 2021
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Geertsma, R.D. (author), Visser, K. (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author)Shipping urgently needs to reduce its impact on the environment, both due to CO<sub>2</sub>, NO<sub>x</sub> and particulate matter (PM) emissions and due to underwater noise. On the other hand, multifunction ships such as offshore support vessels, anchor handling and towing vessels, naval vessels and wind farm construction and support vessels...journal article 2018