Node in Resilience Annual Report
Read the annual report from the TAS Node Resilience.
Foreword
UK and international strategy documents promise a future where autonomous systems unobtrusively maintain the infrastructure of our cities, empathetically support the elderly in living fulfilled independent lives, and dependably manage our road traffic to minimise environmental impact. Fully observant of social, legal, ethical, empathic and cultural (SLEEC) norms, these autonomous systems operate resiliently: they avoid, withstand, recover from, adapt, and evolve to handle unforeseen uncertainty and disruptions.
Current autonomous systems cannot deliver the resilience levels needed to achieve this promise. Their resilience is severely limited by an inability to consider essential socio-technical concerns in their decision-making. Which resilience-enhancing actions are safe and compliant with the SLEEC norms that underpin even routine human decisions? How to quantify and reduce socio-technical uncertainty, and how to predict and detect disruptions? How to ensure that resilience is not achieved at the expense of other human values?
The TAS Node in Resilience project addresses these fundamental questions. Funded
by a £3M EPSRC grant, our team of computer scientists, engineers, lawyers,
mathematicians, philosophers and psychologists from five UK universities
embarked on a 42-month research programme aimed at delivering a step-change…read more