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Course Outline

Foundations of Safety and Explainability in Robotics

  • Overview of safety and transparency principles in robotic systems
  • Regulatory and ethical landscape for robotics and AI
  • Key standards and frameworks: ISO 26262, ISO 10218, and ISO/IEC 42001

Risk and Hazard Analysis

  • Identifying potential hazards in autonomous and semi-autonomous systems
  • Conducting Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
  • Quantifying risks and implementing mitigation through safety-driven design

Verification and Validation Techniques

  • Testing robotic behaviours within simulated environments
  • Implementing formal verification and designing test cases
  • Utilising data-driven validation and monitoring methods

Safety Case Development

  • Structuring and defining the content of a safety case
  • Documenting compliance and maintaining traceability
  • Leveraging tools for evidence management and risk justification

Explainable AI for Robotics

  • Enhancing the transparency of decision-making processes
  • Applying interpretability techniques to ML-based control systems
  • Communicating robotic behaviours to users and regulatory bodies

Ethical and Governance Considerations

  • Core ethical principles in robotics and autonomous systems
  • Addressing bias, accountability, and responsibility in AI-driven robotics
  • Balancing innovation with public trust and regulatory requirements

Practical Workshop: Creating a Safe and Explainable Robotics Scenario

  • Designing a small robotic simulation using ROS 2 or Gazebo
  • Applying verification and validation procedures
  • Developing and presenting a summary of the safety case

Wrap-up and Future Steps

Requirements

  • Foundational knowledge of robotics systems and control architectures
  • Proficiency with Python programming and simulation tools
  • Understanding of system engineering or safety processes

Target Audience

  • System engineers involved in robotics or autonomous systems
  • Safety officers responsible for compliance with functional safety standards
  • Technical managers supervising robotics integration and deployment
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