Proceedings To The International Workshop On Autonomous Systems Safety IWASS 2025

Editors: Joachim Grimstad, Camila Correa-Jullian, Spencer August Dugan, Paul Lee, Marilia Ramos, Christoph A. Thieme, Andrey Morozov, Ingrid B. Utne, Ali Mosleh
DOI: 10.34948/G43W20
ISSN: 2995-8709

Abstract: The International Workshop for Autonomous System Safety (IWASS) is a joint effort by the B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA-GIRS), the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the Institute of Industrial Automation and Software Engineering of the University of Stuttgart.

IWASS 2025 took place on January 25th-26th in Miramar Beach, Florida, U.S., gathering various participants from academia, industry and regulatory bodies. In addition, IWASS hosted a Panel Session at the European Safety and Reliability (ESREL) and Society for Risk Analysis Europe (SRA-E) joint conference on Tuesday, June 17th in Stavanger, Norway. This report summarizes 2025 discussions and main points raised by a community of experts at both events on the status of autonomous systems’ SRS and outlines research directions for safer, more reliable, and secure autonomous systems.

The workshop underscored the importance of managing safety across the entire lifecycle of autonomous systems, addressing operational challenges such as context-aware adaptation, fail-safe design, and monitoring of safety margins, while discussion focused on the concept of trust in autonomous systems.