Dear Spot team,
greetings. This is Edmond Irani Liu, a Ph.D student at the Cyber-Physical Systems Group,
Technical University of Munich. First of all, I would say thank you for your effort in
developing such a great platform and tool!
I will explain a bit about how we have used Spot in our research and then pose my
questions below. We are recently working on formalization of traffic rules to further
obtain traffic rule-compliant motion trajectories for automated vehicles. As a simple
prototype, we have used Spot to translated some simple rules in LTL into a Büchi Automaton
and later obtained its product automaton with the transition system of the discrete states
of the vehicle. We could obtain some nice results with it : ) We are now trying to take
one step further and to formalize more traffic rules, but came across the limitations of
LTL, and switched to MTL for the reason that it is able to specify timed constraints, e.g.
Always keep a safe distance to a leading vehicle if it did not perform a cut-in maneuver
for the last 3 seconds.
My questions are as follows:
By any chance, is there some kind of workaround in Spot with which one can incorporate the
mentioned timed constraints? (Last x seconds, future x seconds, ..) Of course our system
state is also discrete with a 0.1 seconds step in time.
If it is not possible with Spot, do you know some related model checker which can
potentially handle this situation? I have been looking around but so far did not come
across a tool which handles MTL/timed-automaton as nicely as Spot handles LTL.
Thank you very much for your time reading this mail. I appreciate in advance for any
feedback regarding the content.
Kind Regards,
Edmond