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Course Outline

Foundations of Safety and Explainability in Robotics

  • An overview of safety and transparency within robotic systems
  • The 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 hazards in autonomous and semi-autonomous systems
  • Conducting Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
  • Quantifying risk and implementing mitigation through safety-centric design

Verification and Validation Techniques

  • Testing robotic behaviours in simulated environments
  • Formal verification and the design of test cases
  • Data-driven validation and continuous monitoring strategies

Developing the Safety Case

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

Explainable AI in Robotics

  • Ensuring transparency in decision-making processes
  • Interpretability techniques for ML-based control systems
  • Explaining robotic behaviours to end-users and regulatory bodies

Ethical and Governance Considerations

  • Ethical principles governing robotics and autonomous systems
  • 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 basic robotic simulation using ROS 2 or Gazebo
  • Applying verification and validation procedures
  • Developing and presenting a summary of the safety case

Conclusion and Path Forward

Requirements

  • A fundamental grasp of robotics systems and control architectures
  • Proficiency in Python programming and simulation tools
  • Insight into system engineering or safety processes

Target Audience

  • System engineers involved in robotics or autonomous system development
  • Safety officers tasked with ensuring adherence to functional safety standards
  • Technical managers supervising robotics integration and deployment
 21 Hours

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