Passage-end analysis for analysing robot movement

  • Authors:
  • Allan Clark;Adam Duguid;Stephen Gilmore

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Edinburgh, Scotland;The University of Edinburgh, Scotland;The University of Edinburgh, Scotland

  • Venue:
  • Rigorous software engineering for service-oriented systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We report on a new style of passage measurement - called passage-end calculations - associated with stochastic probes and their extension to eXtended Stochastic Probes (XSP) [1]. While stochastic probes allow for the analysis of a passage to be split up into several cases depending on the conditions which hold at the start of the passage, even XSP lacks the ability for the same kind of separation depending on conditions at the end of the passage. In particular we would like to separate successful responses to a request from negative responses, timeouts or other failures. This allows us to evaluate refined service level agreements such as: "At least 90 percent of all successful requests are responded to within 10 seconds" or "At least 90 percent of all requests are responded to within 10 seconds and at least 60 percent of all such requests are successful." We present a case study in the use of passage-end measurements using a robot bowling demonstration used at the ICT 2008 computer fair, one of Europe's leading information technology fairs.