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* Metrics (grouping) | * Metrics (grouping) | ||
* Application area (e.g. ML systems, for HRI, for medical robots) | * Application area (e.g. ML systems, for HRI, for medical robots) | ||
* Related concepts (e.g. all the specification and requirements terms together) | |||
Contents of each linked page: | Contents of each linked page: | ||
* definitions with links to sources | * definitions with links to sources | ||
* short discussion of how topic relates to verification of autonomous systems | * short discussion of how topic relates to verification of autonomous systems | ||
'''''[[Template]]''''' for definition pages - please copy the markup from this page into your new definition page | |||
;Acceptability | ;Acceptability | ||
: exposure to loss (financial or otherwise) from a risk that an organization is willing to tolerate | |||
;Acceptance testing | ;Acceptance testing | ||
;Accountability | ;Accountability | ||
;Activity | |||
: set of tasks that describe the technical effort to accomplish a process and help generate expected outcome [https://www.nasa.gov/seh/index.html NASA Systems Engineering Handbook] | |||
;[[Adaptive]] | |||
;Assessment | ;Assessment | ||
;Assurance | ;Assurance | ||
;Assurance cases | ;Assurance cases | ||
;Autonomous System: "system which has the ability to perform intended tasks based on current state, knowledge and sensing, without human intervention" [https://shop.bsigroup.com/products/robots-and-robotic-devices-guide-to-the-ethical-design-and-application-of-robots-and-robotic-systems/standard BSI 8611:2016] | ;[[Autonomous System]] | ||
: "system which has the ability to perform intended tasks based on current state, knowledge and sensing, without human intervention" [https://shop.bsigroup.com/products/robots-and-robotic-devices-guide-to-the-ethical-design-and-application-of-robots-and-robotic-systems/standard BSI 8611:2016] | |||
;Autonomous systems design | ;Autonomous systems design | ||
;Autonomy | ;Autonomy | ||
;Automated | |||
: a robot that does not make any decisions. It performs a precise sequence of actions without regard to external input. Even if a robot has sensors, that enable it to gather information about its environment, if they aren't used to modify its behavior, the robot is automated and acts as an automaton. | |||
;Automation | |||
: allocation of system functions to machines versus humans [https://www.nasa.gov/seh/index.html NASA Systems Engineering Handbook] | |||
;Anomaly | |||
: unexpected performance of intended function [https://www.nasa.gov/seh/index.html NASA Systems Engineering Handbook] | |||
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;Cross-domain / multi-domain validation | ;Cross-domain / multi-domain validation | ||
;Cyber-security | ;Cyber-security | ||
;Cyborg | |||
: a system consisting of a combination of a core biological organism, usually human, and machine or mechanical components. | |||
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;Explainability | ;Explainability | ||
;Failure | |||
: inability of a system, subsystem or component to perform its required function within specified limits [https://www.nasa.gov/seh/index.html NASA Systems Engineering Handbook] | |||
;Failure detection and recovery | ;Failure detection and recovery | ||
;Fault | |||
: physical or logical cause, which explains a failure [https://www.nasa.gov/seh/index.html NASA Systems Engineering Handbook] | |||
;Formal methods for autonomous systems | ;Formal methods for autonomous systems | ||
;Formal modelling | ;Formal modelling | ||
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;Objective evidence: | |||
;Objective evidence | |||
: ISO 9000:2015 - "data, supporting the existence or verity of something" [https://bsol.bsigroup.com/Bibliographic/BibliographicInfoData/000000000030412048 ISO 9000:2015] | |||
;Operational design domain | ;Operational design domain | ||
;Process | |||
: "set of interrelated or interacting activities that use inputs to deliver an intended result" [https://bsol.bsigroup.com/Bibliographic/BibliographicInfoData/000000000030412048 ISO 9000:2015] | |||
;Qualitative assessment | ;Qualitative assessment | ||
;Quality requirement | |||
: "requirement related to quality" [https://bsol.bsigroup.com/Bibliographic/BibliographicInfoData/000000000030412048 ISO 9000:2015] | |||
;Quality plan | |||
: "specification of the procedures and associated resources to be applied when and by whom to a specific object" [https://bsol.bsigroup.com/Bibliographic/BibliographicInfoData/000000000030412048 ISO 9000:2015] | |||
;Quantitative assessment | ;Quantitative assessment | ||
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;Privacy | ;Privacy | ||
;[[Reactive]] | |||
;Redundant robots | ;Redundant robots | ||
;Reliability | ;Reliability | ||
;[[Remote Control]] | |||
;Replicability | ;Replicability | ||
;Reproducibility | ;Reproducibility | ||
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;Requirement | ;Requirement | ||
: "need or expectation that is stated, generally implied or obligatory" [https://bsol.bsigroup.com/Bibliographic/BibliographicInfoData/000000000030412048 ISO 9000:2015] | |||
;Requirements development processes | ;Requirements development processes | ||
;Resilience | ;Resilience | ||
;Responsibility | ;[[Responsibility]] | ||
;Robot safety | : Either (a) responsible development and deployment of robotics, see [https://shop.bsigroup.com/products/robots-and-robotic-devices-guide-to-the-ethical-design-and-application-of-robots-and-robotic-systems/standard BSI 8611:2016] or | ||
: (b) responsible decisions by the autonomous system itself, see [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2022.103677 ethics for autonomous systems] | |||
;Robot | |||
: See Robotic Systems | |||
;Robot safety | |||
;Robotic Systems | ;Robotic Systems | ||
: Robot systems engineering | : Robot systems engineering | ||
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;Security | ;Security | ||
;Security requirements | ;Security requirements | ||
;[[Semi-autonomous]] | |||
;Simulation-based testing | ;Simulation-based testing | ||
;Sim-based evaluation | ;Sim-based evaluation | ||
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: software testing | : software testing | ||
;Specification | ;Specification | ||
: "document stating requirements" [https://bsol.bsigroup.com/Bibliographic/BibliographicInfoData/000000000030412048 ISO 9000:2015] | |||
;Synthetic environment | ;Synthetic environment | ||
: to develop high level test scenarios, drive test case development | : to develop high level test scenarios, drive test case development | ||
;Teleoperated | |||
: a robot whose operator is controlling its every move, but where the command stream is not required to be continuous and the operator is using sensors on-board the robot for situational awareness. The operator may send higher level commands (e.g. "go to waypoint") and the robot will complete the last command it receives before it stops. | |||
;Test cases for verification purposes | ;Test cases for verification purposes | ||
;Testing | ;Testing | ||
;Transparency | ;Transparency | ||
;Trust | ;Trust | ||
;Trustworthiness | ;[[Trustworthiness]] | ||
: Generally, [https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/trustworthy "able to be trusted"]. | |||
: In autonomous systems, moving beyond standard cyber-physical systems where trustworthiess is synonymous with reliability and extending this with [https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69128-8_2 beneficiality], i.e. evidence that the system is working for our benefit. | |||
;Use-case scenario generation | ;Use-case scenario generation | ||
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;Validation: | ;Validation: | ||
: further adds as "A system is able to accomplish its intended use, goals and objectives (i.e., meet stakeholder requirements) in the intended operational environment. The right system was built.” ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288:2015 | |||
;Verification: | ;Verification: | ||
: defines verification as "Confirmation, through the provision of objective evidence, that specified requirements have been fulfilled" [https://bsol.bsigroup.com/Bibliographic/BibliographicInfoData/000000000030412048 ISO 9000:2015] | |||
: further adds as "Verification is a set of activities that compare a system or system element against the required characteristics. This includes, but is not limited to specified requirements, design description and the system itself. The system was built right." ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288:2015 | |||
;Verification and Validation Process | |||
: Process of first, identifying the desired functionality and properties of the system, second, verifying that the system provides that functionality and possesses those properties, and third, validating that the system as delivered meets user needs. | |||
;Waldo | |||
: a mechanism that precisely repeats the actions of its operator (from the Robert Heinlein short story [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldo_%28short_story%29 Waldo] from the book Waldo & Magic, Inc.) | |||
==Notes== | |||
* Note that we need to discuss how we will handle definitions that are not part of standards and may not have agreed upon definitions | |||
Latest revision as of 16:06, 31 October 2023
Offer different classifications and groupings - in main page
- Verification techniques (tree?)
- Metrics (grouping)
- Application area (e.g. ML systems, for HRI, for medical robots)
- Related concepts (e.g. all the specification and requirements terms together)
Contents of each linked page:
- definitions with links to sources
- short discussion of how topic relates to verification of autonomous systems
Template for definition pages - please copy the markup from this page into your new definition page
- Acceptability
- exposure to loss (financial or otherwise) from a risk that an organization is willing to tolerate
- Acceptance testing
- Accountability
- Activity
- set of tasks that describe the technical effort to accomplish a process and help generate expected outcome NASA Systems Engineering Handbook
- Adaptive
- Assessment
- Assurance
- Assurance cases
- Autonomous System
- "system which has the ability to perform intended tasks based on current state, knowledge and sensing, without human intervention" BSI 8611:2016
- Autonomous systems design
- Autonomy
- Automated
- a robot that does not make any decisions. It performs a precise sequence of actions without regard to external input. Even if a robot has sensors, that enable it to gather information about its environment, if they aren't used to modify its behavior, the robot is automated and acts as an automaton.
- Automation
- allocation of system functions to machines versus humans NASA Systems Engineering Handbook
- Anomaly
- unexpected performance of intended function NASA Systems Engineering Handbook
- Behavior verification for autonomous systems and ML systems
- Behavioral verification
- Combining V&V Techniques
- Contextual reasoning
- Correctness verification
- Credibility
- Cross-domain / multi-domain validation
- Cyber-security
- Cyborg
- a system consisting of a combination of a core biological organism, usually human, and machine or mechanical components.
- Dependability
- Executable specifications
- Experiment design
- Explainability
- Failure
- inability of a system, subsystem or component to perform its required function within specified limits NASA Systems Engineering Handbook
- Failure detection and recovery
- Fault
- physical or logical cause, which explains a failure NASA Systems Engineering Handbook
- Formal methods for autonomous systems
- Formal modelling
- Formal software verification
- Functional assurance
- Functional requirements
- Functional verification
- HRI (Human-robot interactions)
- HRI verification
- Hybrid Logical/Dynamical Planning and Verification
- Generalizability
- Integrity of autonomous systems
- Liability
- Licensing and certification
- Model-based evaluation
- Objective evidence
- ISO 9000:2015 - "data, supporting the existence or verity of something" ISO 9000:2015
- Operational design domain
- Process
- "set of interrelated or interacting activities that use inputs to deliver an intended result" ISO 9000:2015
- Qualitative assessment
- Quality requirement
- "requirement related to quality" ISO 9000:2015
- Quality plan
- "specification of the procedures and associated resources to be applied when and by whom to a specific object" ISO 9000:2015
- Quantitative assessment
- Performance evaluation and benchmarking
- Privacy
- Reactive
- Redundant robots
- Reliability
- Remote Control
- Replicability
- Reproducibility
- Requirements
- Workspace and conditions/context of operations
- Requirement
- "need or expectation that is stated, generally implied or obligatory" ISO 9000:2015
- Requirements development processes
- Resilience
- Responsibility
- Either (a) responsible development and deployment of robotics, see BSI 8611:2016 or
- (b) responsible decisions by the autonomous system itself, see ethics for autonomous systems
- Robot
- See Robotic Systems
- Robot safety
- Robotic Systems
- Robot systems engineering
- Robustness
- Run-time verification and monitoring
- Safety
- Safety and security interaction
- Safety in HRI
- safety, system function
- verification of any function in the system including ML & non-deterministic functions
- Safety-centric HRI protocols
- Safety requirements
- Security
- Security requirements
- Semi-autonomous
- Simulation-based testing
- Sim-based evaluation
- Social/legal/ethical requirements
- Software testing and debugging
- Software tools for benchmarking and
- Software tools for testing
- software testing
- Specification
- "document stating requirements" ISO 9000:2015
- Synthetic environment
- to develop high level test scenarios, drive test case development
- Teleoperated
- a robot whose operator is controlling its every move, but where the command stream is not required to be continuous and the operator is using sensors on-board the robot for situational awareness. The operator may send higher level commands (e.g. "go to waypoint") and the robot will complete the last command it receives before it stops.
- Test cases for verification purposes
- Testing
- Transparency
- Trust
- Trustworthiness
- Generally, "able to be trusted".
- In autonomous systems, moving beyond standard cyber-physical systems where trustworthiess is synonymous with reliability and extending this with beneficiality, i.e. evidence that the system is working for our benefit.
- Use-case scenario generation
- Use Case testing
- Validation
- further adds as "A system is able to accomplish its intended use, goals and objectives (i.e., meet stakeholder requirements) in the intended operational environment. The right system was built.” ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288:2015
- Verification
- defines verification as "Confirmation, through the provision of objective evidence, that specified requirements have been fulfilled" ISO 9000:2015
- further adds as "Verification is a set of activities that compare a system or system element against the required characteristics. This includes, but is not limited to specified requirements, design description and the system itself. The system was built right." ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288:2015
- Verification and Validation Process
- Process of first, identifying the desired functionality and properties of the system, second, verifying that the system provides that functionality and possesses those properties, and third, validating that the system as delivered meets user needs.
- Waldo
- a mechanism that precisely repeats the actions of its operator (from the Robert Heinlein short story Waldo from the book Waldo & Magic, Inc.)
Notes
- Note that we need to discuss how we will handle definitions that are not part of standards and may not have agreed upon definitions