Descripción del proyecto
Actualización de la ingeniería de seguridad y fiabilidad en el contexto de sistemas cada vez más autónomos
El mundo evoluciona con rapidez hacia una mayor automatización en casi todos los ámbitos. La mayoría de las normas de seguridad existentes se desarrollaron asumiendo que un ser humano podía tomar el control cuando fuese necesario, y no para sistemas autónomos sin intervención humana. Además, los planteamientos actuales asumen que el sistema no aprenderá ni utilizará la experiencia pasada para tomar decisiones una vez implementado. El aprendizaje automático permite una toma de decisiones autónoma, pero esto agrega incertidumbre sobre cómo reaccionará el sistema. En el proyecto SAS, que cuenta con el apoyo de las Acciones Marie Skłodowska-Curie, se desarrollarán planteamientos innovadores para la ingeniería de seguridad y fiabilidad de sistemas que incluyan aspectos éticos y jurídicos. Los resultados mejorarán la seguridad y fortalecerán el apoyo a los sistemas autónomos.
Objetivo
Autonomous systems offer humankind tremendous opportunities, like freeing us from mundane tasks, carrying out risky procedures and generally giving us more time to enjoy the things we like doing. However, we lack trust in many forms of autonomous systems: partly this is human nature, but primarily because these systems, such as self-driving cars, have not demonstrated their safety credentials. Only by making these systems safer can we expect their widespread acceptance. The Safer Autonomous Systems (SAS) ETN is about getting people to trust these systems by making the systems safer. In order to achieve this objective and to train a group of highly skilled, responsible, future innovators, we will bring together 15 early-stage researchers (ESRs) to investigate new forms of system-safety engineering, dependability engineering, fault-tolerant and failsafe hardware/software design, model-based safety analysis, safety-assurance case development, cyber-security, as well as legal and ethical aspects. SAS will actively research the development of safer autonomous systems at multi-nationals like Bosch, but it also wants to stimulate the development of new safety designs, modelling and assurance techniques by involving the ESRs in SMEs and, potentially, their own start-ups. To help the ESRs put what they have learned during their research and S/T training into practise in their future careers, they will also receive soft-skills training to help them communicate effectively at all levels and become sought-after recruits. SAS is closely aligned with the high-priority areas of the EU, addressing many Horizon 2020 thematics, e.g. Industrial Leadership (Advanced manufacturing and processing), Societal Challenges (Smart, green and integrated transport; Secure, clean and efficient energy) and Excellent Science. But the most important output of SAS will be 15 well qualified people who have been trained to tackle many of the problems now being faced by European industry.
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- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringautomotive engineeringautonomous vehicles
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineering
- natural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsstatistics and probability
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learning
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MSCA-ITN - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN)Coordinador
3000 Leuven
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