As Autonomous Systems (AS) become more ubiquitous in society, more responsible for our safety and our interaction with them more frequent, it is essential that they are trustworthy. Assessing the trustworthiness of AS is a mandatory challenge for the verification and development community. This will require appropriate standards and suitable metrics that may serve to objectively and comparatively judge trustworthiness of AS across the broad range of current and future applications. The meta-expression `trustworthiness' is examined in the context of AS capturing the relevant qualities that comprise this term in the literature. Recent developments in standards and frameworks that support assurance of autonomous systems are reviewed. A list of key challenges are identified for the community and we present an outline of a process that can be used as a trustworthiness assessment framework for AS.
翻译:随着自主系统(AS)在社会中的日益普及,它们对我们的安全承担更多责任,且我们与它们的交互愈发频繁,确保其可信性变得至关重要。评估自主系统的可信性对验证与开发领域而言是一项必然挑战。这需要制定适当的标准和合适的度量指标,以便客观且可比较地评判当前及未来广泛应用中自主系统的可信性。本文针对自主系统语境下的元概念"可信性"进行剖析,梳理了文献中构成该术语的相关质量属性。我们回顾了支持自主系统可信性保证的标准与框架的最新进展,指出了领域面临的一系列关键挑战,并提出了一个可作为自主系统可信性评估框架的流程纲要。