PROVIDING UNIQUE SAFETY ASSURANCE
Many sectors are building robotics and autonomous systems, but there always remains the question of ‘trust’. How does a user, the procurer, the general public and the insurance industry, trust that the device will not ‘go rogue’? It is widely acknowledged that Artificial Intelligence based system’s behaviours are notoriously difficult to assure. So how can they be trusted? There are significant advantages to using Artificial Intelligence techniques but behavioural assurance has to be proven before we can really trust them. The most significant issue remains, how to assure the autonomous vehicle’s behaviour when (not ‘if’) communications to the vehicle are lost or denied? Such denial can be when the system is out of the direct control of a human through environment constraints, such as being out of range or underwater.
D-RisQ has developed an approach that enables the benefits of Artificial Intelligence without having to tackle the complexities of its behavioural assurance.
In 4 different sectors, we have evolved our approach to enable the safe deployment of autonomous vehicles that can operate safely without human intervention. This software product is called ‘Predicate Guard’ and can be adapted for any sector.
USMOOTH: A Predicate Guard development project
This project assured the behaviour of a sea surface vehicle with our partners ASV. The software enabled the vessel to always comply with the rules-of-the-sea and had advanced behaviour for collision avoidance while allowing artificial intelligence to provide the most efficient path.
Predicate Guard High assurance software for autonomous systems sea safety
DISCOVER MOREAir BVLOS: A Predicate Guard development project
The major problem with unmanned air vehicles is knowing what they will do once they are Beyond Visual Line of Sight, when situational awareness is difficult to obtain and even when communications are interrupted. The software produced by D-RisQ enabled the unmanned air vehicle to always comply with the rules-of-the-air. In an evolution from USMOOTH, we added an extra capability which ensured that the vehicle behaved as though it was piloted obeying the rules of the air.
Predicate Guard: High assurance software for autonomous systems air safety
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A2I2: A Predicate Guard development project
The key aim was to remove people from hazardous environments such as in nuclear decommissioning and off-shore thereby the name of the project “autonomous, Aquatic, Inspection and Intervention (A2I2)”. The vehicle has to operate with, at best, intermittent communications to the operator as it has to have no tether. This brings significant challenges for assurance in a complex environment
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DISCOVER MOREOff Planet Vehicle: A Predicate Guard development project
An advanced project run by the University of Surrey is developing software for off-planet vehicles – truly ‘off-road’! D-RisQ supported the research into how to assure behaviour of such valuable assets and their passengers from unwanted behaviour.
Predicate Guard: High assurance software for autonomous space safety
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USMOOTH: A Heimdall development project
This project assured the behaviour of a sea surface vehicle with our partners ASV. The soft-ware enabled the vessel to always comply with the rules-of-the-sea and had advanced behaviour for collision avoidance while allowing artificial intelligence to provide the most efficient path.
Heimdall: High assurance software for autonomous systems sea safety
Air BVLOS: A Heimdall development project
The major problem with unmanned air vehicles is knowing what they will do once they are Beyond Visual Line of Sight, when situational awareness is difficult to obtain and even when communications are interrupted. The software produced by D-RisQ enabled the unmanned air vehicle to always comply with the rules-of-the-air. In an evolution from USMOOTH, we added an extra capability which ensured that the vehicle behaved as though it was piloted obeying the rules of the air.
Heimdall: High assurance software for autonomous systems sea safety
A2I2: A Heimdall development project
The key aim was to remove people from hazardous environments such as in nuclear decommissioning and off-shore thereby the name of the project “autonomous, Aquatic, Inspection and Intervention (A2I2)”. The vehicle has to operate with, at best, intermittent communications to the operator as it has to have no tether. This brings significant challenges for assurance in a complex environment
Heimdall: High assurance software for underwater autonomous systems safety
Off Planet Vehicle: A Heimdall development project
An advanced project run by the University of Surrey is developing software for off-planet vehicles – truly ‘off-road’! D-RisQ supported the research into how to assure behaviour of such valuable assets and their passengers from unwanted behaviour.
Heimdall: High assurance software for autonomous space safety
COMING SOON
A2I2X
The autonomous underwater vehicle developed under A2I2 will be further developed and demonstrated with our partners Rovco and National Oceanography Centre. Predicate Guard will be further validated in trials for wind farm mono-pile inspection and intervention.
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