[SystemSafety] Article on 'Certifiable Trust' ; report on Autonomy Research

[SPRIGGS, John J]

Interesting remark in the picture caption; "Northrop Grumman's X-47B is highly automated but does not have hard-to-test emergent behavior" - how do they know?  It may not have emerged yet, making it hard to test...


John

From: systemsafety-bounces at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de [mailto:systemsafety-bounces at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de] On Behalf Of C. Michael Holloway
Sent: 12 August 2014 19:28
To: systemsafety at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
Subject: [SystemSafety] Article on 'Certifiable Trust' ; report on Autonomy Research

Greetings,

Some folks on this list may be interested in reading a recent article in Aviation Week & Space Technology titled 'Certifiable Trust' Required to Take Autonomous Systems Past 'Unmanned.':

http://goo.gl/bi6lf8

(full URL is http://aviationweek.com/commercial-aviation/certifiable-trust-required-take-autonomous-systems-past-unmanned)

I am curious what people think about the various statements made in the article.

The US National Research Council recently completed a report on the same general subject.  The report, titled "Autonomy Research for Civil Aviation: Toward a New Era of Flight" is available here: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18815

Downloading a free PDF copy requires registering or at least providing an e-mail address.

If anyone has the time to read the report, I am curious what you think about it.

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C. Michael Holloway, Senior Research Engineer
Safety Critical Avionics Systems Branch, Research Directorate
NASA Langley Research Center / MS 130 Hampton VA 23681-2199 USA
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