AERoS: Assurance of Emergent Behaviour in Autonomous Robotic Swarms

Dhaminda B Abeywickrama; James S Wilson; Suet Lee; Greg Chance; Peter Winter; Arianna Manzini; Ibrahim Habli; Shane P Windsor; Sabine Hauert; Kerstin I Eder

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AERoS: Assurance of Emergent Behaviour in Autonomous Robotic Swarms

Dhaminda B Abeywickrama^*, James S Wilson^*, Suet Lee, Greg Chance, Peter Winter, Arianna Manzini, Ibrahim Habli, Shane P Windsor, Sabine Hauert, Kerstin I Eder

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The behaviours of a swarm are not explicitly engineered. Instead, they are an emergent consequence of the interactions of individual agents with each other and their environment. This emergent functionality poses a challenge to safety assurance. The main contribution of this paper is a process for the safety assurance of emergent behaviour in autonomous robotic swarms called AERoS, following the guidance on the Assurance of Machine Learning for use in Autonomous Systems (AMLAS). We explore our proposed process using a case study centred on a robot swarm operating a public cloakroom.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computer Safety, Reliability and Security - SAFECOMP 2023 Workshops
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	341-354
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031409530
ISBN (Print)	9783031409523
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40953-0_28
Publication status	Published - 14 Sept 2023
Event	SAFECOMP2023: 42nd International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security - Toulouse, France Duration: 19 Sept 2023 → 22 Sept 2023

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Spring Nature
Volume	14182
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	SAFECOMP2023
Country/Territory	France
City	Toulouse
Period	19/09/23 → 22/09/23

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Abeywickrama, D. B., Wilson, J. S., Lee, S., Chance, G., Winter, P., Manzini, A., Habli, I., Windsor, S. P., Hauert, S., & Eder, K. I. (2023). AERoS: Assurance of Emergent Behaviour in Autonomous Robotic Swarms. In Computer Safety, Reliability and Security - SAFECOMP 2023 Workshops (pp. 341-354). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 14182). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40953-0_28

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Abeywickrama, DB, Wilson, JS, Lee, S, Chance, G, Winter, P, Manzini, A, Habli, I, Windsor, SP , Hauert, S & Eder, KI 2023, AERoS: Assurance of Emergent Behaviour in Autonomous Robotic Swarms. in Computer Safety, Reliability and Security - SAFECOMP 2023 Workshops. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 14182, Springer Nature, pp. 341-354, SAFECOMP2023, Toulouse, France, 19/09/23. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40953-0_28

AERoS: Assurance of Emergent Behaviour in Autonomous Robotic Swarms. / Abeywickrama, Dhaminda B; Wilson, James S; Lee, Suet et al.
Computer Safety, Reliability and Security - SAFECOMP 2023 Workshops. Springer Nature, 2023. p. 341-354 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 14182).

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