Academic · Talk

WASP Software Engineering and Technology Cluster Workshop 2026: research presentation

Period
16 Jun 2026
Organisation
WASP Software Engineering and Technology cluster
Location
Ada Lovelace lecture hall, B-huset, Linköping UniversityCampus Valla, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden
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Presentation of my PhD project to the WASP software engineering and technology cluster: objectives, the multi-step refinement approach, SceneGEMS and the roadmap towards simulation-based assurance at scale.

WASP groups its PhD students into thematic clusters. At the 2026 workshop of the software engineering and technology cluster I presented Model-Driven Scenario-Based Assurance for the COLREGS Compliance of Autonomous Surface Vehicles.

The talk covered:

  1. Why COLREGS assurance needs systematic scenario generation rather than historical data or stochastic testing.
  2. Objectives O1–O3: specification, generation and execution.
  3. How: multi-step refinement with the Refinery graph solver, and the key design choices (constraint satisfaction as search with NSGA-II/III, or rejection sampling).
  4. Status and outlook: functionally complete suites up to six vessels, a preliminary static trajectory generator, simulation integration through SceneGEMS and the WARA-PS core system, and the open questions about dynamic trajectories and richer simulators.