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Safer Autonomous Systems

Descrizione del progetto

Aggiornare l’ingegneria della sicurezza e dell’affidabilità nel contesto di sistemi sempre più autonomi

Il mondo si sta rapidamente evolvendo verso una maggiore automazione in quasi tutti i campi. La maggior parte degli standard di sicurezza esistenti è stata sviluppata partendo dal presupposto che l’uomo possa intervenire in caso di necessità, e non per i sistemi autonomi che agiscono senza l’intervento umano. Inoltre, gli approcci attuali presuppongono che il sistema non sia in grado di apprendere e di utilizzare l’esperienza passata per prendere decisioni una volta installato. Oggi l’apprendimento automatico permette di prendere decisioni autonome, ma questo aggiunge incertezza riguardo al modo in cui il sistema reagirà. Con il sostegno del programma di azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie, il progetto SAS svilupperà approcci innovativi alla sicurezza del sistema e all’ingegneria dell’affidabilità, compresi gli aspetti legali ed etici. I risultati miglioreranno la sicurezza e rafforzeranno il supporto dei sistemi autonomi.

Obiettivo

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.

Coordinatore

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 025 280,00
Indirizzo
OUDE MARKT 13
3000 Leuven
Belgio

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Regione
Vlaams Gewest Prov. Vlaams-Brabant Arr. Leuven
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 1 025 280,00

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