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Safety standards for autonomous drones Owen McAree University of Sheffield 1 Anatomy of autonomy Rational agent Adapted from Dennis, Louise A., et al. "Practical verification of decision-making in agent -based autonomous


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Safety standards for autonomous drones

Owen McAree University of Sheffield

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Anatomy of autonomy

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Adapted from Dennis, Louise A., et al. "Practical verification of decision-making in agent

  • based autonomous systems." Automated Software Engineering 23.3 (2016): 305-359.
  • Rational agent
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Control systems assessment

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  • Limited system architectures
  • Well understood failure modes,

leading to well quantified performance requirements

– Stability, Robustness, Fault tolerance, etc…

  • Straightforward to verify

mathematically

  • Relatively straightforward to

test

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Assessment of autonomy

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  • Large number of potential

configurations

– Logic based, Reactive, BDI, SNN, DNN, etc…

  • Open questions

– What are the failure modes? – What are the performance requirements? – How do we verify the performance? – How do we ensure coverage in testing?

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Potential solutions

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  • Apply formal verification

methods wherever possible

– Provides absolute guarantees

  • Apply stochastic verification
  • therwise

– Provides probabilistic guarantees

  • Requires stochastic modelling
  • f all components, including

real world and control systems

  • Requires probabilistic

performance requirements