Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) enable new kinds of applications as well as significant improvements of existing ones in numerous different application domains. A major trait of upcoming CPS is an increasing degree of automation up to the point of autonomy, as there is a huge potential for economic success as well as for ecologic and societal improvements. However, to unlock the full potential of such (cooperative and automated) CPS, we first need to overcome several significant engineering challenges, where safety assurance is a particularly important one. Unfortunately, established safety assurance methods and standards do not live up to this task, as they have been designed with closed and less complex systems in mind. This paper structures safety assurance challenges of cooperative automated CPS, provides an overview on our vision of dynamic risk management and describes already existing building blocks.

翻译：信息物理系统在众多不同的应用领域中，既能催生新型应用，也能显著改进现有应用。未来信息物理系统的一个主要特征是自动化程度不断提高，直至实现完全自主，因为这在经济成功以及生态和社会改善方面具有巨大潜力。然而，要充分发挥这种（协作式及自动化）信息物理系统的全部潜力，我们首先需要攻克若干重大工程挑战，其中安全保证尤为重要。遗憾的是，既有的安全保证方法和标准难以胜任这一任务，因为它们是为封闭且复杂度较低的系统而设计的。本文梳理了协作式自动化信息物理系统面临的安全保证挑战，概述了我们关于动态风险管理的愿景，并介绍了现已存在的构建模块。