ESREL 2024 PANEL: Autonomous system safety, risk, and security

The European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL) held a Panel dedicated to IWASS.

ESREL is the key annual event for meetings and knowledge exchange in the area of risk assessment, risk management, and optimization of the performance of socio-technological systems in Europe, and among the most important internationally.

Description

This special session will be organized in a panel format for discussing autonomous systems safety, risk, and security (SRS). The session will discuss the results of the third International Workshop on Autonomous Systems Safety (IWASS) and the early findings of the 5th IWASS, organized together with ESREL. Key experts will be invited to discuss autonomous systems SRS from an interdisciplinary and cross-industrial perspective. 

The panel is expected to present the results from IWASS discussions and make them more accessible to a broader audience. Participants may present additional thoughts on the discussions and workshop outcomes.

Motivation

IWASS is organized by the Department of Marine Technology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), the B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the Institute of Industrial Automation and Software Engineering at the University of Stuttgart. 

Autonomous systems on land, in the air, and on the sea are being widely applied. The safety issues concerning these systems are the focus of many research projects and publications, yet each industry and academic field attempts to solve arising safety issues on its own. Given the identifiable similarities, could common solutions be envisioned and developed? Answering these and related questions motivates this panel as an opportunity for an interdisciplinary discussion on risks, challenges, and foremost potential solutions concerning safe autonomous systems and operations.

Objective

This session aims to use the results of the 4th IWASS, early findings of the 5th IWASS, and participants expertise to discuss autonomous systems SRS, identifying key challenges, and possible solutions.


Organizers

Thieme, Christoph A., christoph.thieme@ntnu.no, SINTEF

Ramos, Marilia, marilia@risksciences.ucla.edu, University of California Los Angeles

Utne, Ingrid B., ingrid.b.utne@ntnu.no, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Mosleh, Ali, mosleh@ucla.edu, University of California Los Angeles

Morozov, Andrey, andrey.morozov@ias.uni-stuttgart.de, University of Stuttgart