Formal Semantics and Verification Framework for Declarative ADCS Function Generators

Cayeux et al. (2025) describe a declarative approach to generating verified ADCS functions, but don’t formalize the semantics or verification guarantees at the language level. Inspired by foundational semantics work in programming languages (Koutavas et al., 2024), this idea is to precisely define the semantics of the declarative ADCS language, then build formal translation validators and automated proof frameworks to guarantee that generated code adheres to safety and liveness properties. Unlike traditional program synthesis verification, this focuses on the engineering and domain-specific constraints of ADCS, such as fail-safe transitions and external advisory integration. The result would be a new benchmark for safety-critical code generation in industrial automation, and could drive adoption of formal verification in other cyber-physical domains.

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2. An Operational Semantics for Yul. Vasileios Koutavas, Yu-Yang Lin, N. Tzevelekos (2024). IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods.