Seminar Details
2012-05-15 (14.00) : Development of safe autonomous systems: a perspective
At Euler building
Organized by Mathematical Engineering
Speaker :
Holger VOOS (University of Luxembourg)
Abstract :
In the near future, systems with a high degree of autonomy like mobile service robots are expected to provide services in many area of life. They have to execute demanding and complex tasks in a dynamic unstructured environment, collaborate with human users in a natural and intuitive way and adapt themselves to varying conditions. While much effort in research is spent on the investigation and realization of artificial intelligence and autonomy, it is often neglected that a higher degree of autonomy also results in higher safety requirements, especially if these autonomous systems have to interact closely with human users.
This presentation focuses on a perspective for the development of safe autonomous systems. While processes and measures for the design of safety-critical technical systems in general exist, both the structural and behavioral complexity of an autonomous system requires measures to ensure safety that are far beyond the currently existing approaches. However, the application of methods like simulation, testing or formal verification during design time turned out to be rather difficult for the development of safe autonomous systems. Therefore this presentation also considers a supervisory approach where safe autonomous behavior of a system should be achieved via online risk assessment and risk-sensitive action planning and generation.