Simulation-based testing of unmanned aerial vehicles with AERIALIST
Informazioni aggiuntive
Autori
MazraehKhatiri S.,
Panichella S.,
Tonella P.
Tipo
Contributo in atti di convegno
Anno
2024
Lingua
Inglese
Sommario
Simulation-based testing is crucial for ensuring the safety and reliability of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), especially as they become more autonomous and get increasingly used in commercial scenarios. The complexity and automated nature of UAVs requires sophisticated simulation environments for effectively testing their safety requirements. The primary challenges in setting up these environments pose significant barriers to the practical, widespread adoption of UAVs. We address this issue by introducing AERIALIST (unmanned AERIAL vehIcle teST bench), a novel UAV test bench, built on top of PX4 firmware, that facilitates or automates all the necessary steps of definition, generation, execution, and analysis of system-level UAV test cases in simulation environments. Moreover, it also supports parallel and scalable execution and analysis of test cases on Kubernetes clusters. This makes Aerialist a unique platform for research and development of test generation approaches for UAVs. To evaluate Aerialist's support for UAV developers in defining, generating, and executing UAV test cases, we implemented a search-based approach for generating realistic simulation-based test cases using real-world UAV flight logs. We confirmed its effectiveness in improving the realism and representativeness of simulation-based UAV tests.
Parole chiave
Software and its engineering, Software verification and validation, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Test generation, Simulation
Titolo atti di convegno
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (ICSE Companion)
Nome convegno
ICSE-Companion '24: 2024 IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings
Luogo convegno
Lisbon Portugal
Data convegno
April 14-20, 2024
Pagine (o numero dell’articolo)
134 - 138
Volume
46
Diffusione
Licenza
CC BY
Visibilità
Pubblico
Status open access
Hybrid
