Autonomous Systems Software

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 the behaviour of Artificial Intelligence based systems is 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 captures the benefits of Artificial Intelligence without the burden of the complexities of behavioural assurance.

In various 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 a 'safety monitor' and can be adapted for any sector.