Paper presented at International Conference on Software Engineering

Researchers Sajad Khatiri, Sebastiano Panichella and Paolo Tonella from Zurich University of Applied Sciences co-authored a paper presented at the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024) held on 14-20 April in Lisbon. The paper titled "Simulation-based testing of unmanned aerial vehicles with Aerialist" addresses the challenges simulation-based testing for ensuring the safety and reliability of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), especially as they become more autonomous and increasingly used in commercial scenarios. The paper introduces 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. This makes Aerialist a unique platform for research and development of test generation approaches for UAVs. The paper is available for download here and a video demonstration of Aerialist is available here.