[SystemSafety] IEEE USA CTAP - Committee for Transportation and Aerospace Policy

[Peter Bernard Ladkin]

Folks,

Walter Rawle chairs the above mentioned committee, which advises the US government and other 
stakeholders, I take it similarly to what IET Policy Panels try to do in the UK. He requested to be 
put on the list and is now on.

I understand CTAP is drafting a Policy Statement on "Developing an Intelligent Regulatory Framework 
to Facilitate Safe Deployment of Automated Driving Systems". Main author is Steven Shladover, of the 
California PATH program at UC Berkeley.

I am sure there are people on this list who are interested; indeed who are actively working on 
similar projects, such as IEC TS 5469. I have names in mind but of course it is up to you to 
introduce yourselves and your interests.

I do note that, while the list has been moderately dormant recently, the broader discussions we have 
had all involve autonomy. There is no doubt that it is currently a massive issue for policy and 
standardisation.

I do note that many people now concerning themselves with autonomy are still unaware of what NASA 
did in the 1990's with the Propulsion Controlled Aircraft project (an MD-11) and the Intelligent 
Flight Control Systems project (an F-15). Some are even unaware of the DARPA Grand Challenge and 
Urban Challenge competitions. I wrote a paper back in April on functional safety of systems 
involving "AI" subsystems, which for most people nowadays means machine-learning systems such as 
DLNNs. I have shared it with some (for example, the German 5469 working group, of which I am 
nominally a member and to which I gave a talk on it). I've been meaning to send it to the SCSC 
eJournal for consideration, but I can't currently stand the thought of working yet another document 
into someone else's format (I seem to myself to have been doing little else for months, although 
that is literally not true). I'll put it on my Cloud account and share a link.

Thanks to Eric Burger for facilitating the introduction to Walter and IEEE CTAP.

PBL

Prof. i.R. Dr. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Bielefeld, Germany
Tel+msg +49 (0)521 880 7319  www.rvs-bi.de




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