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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

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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
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
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


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


Redundant robots
Reliability
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 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
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


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.

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