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Engineering Reliable Autonomous Systems

May 29-30, 2025
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA

Vision

A space for all stakeholders across autonomous system reliability to come together to discuss the key remaining problems and present progress made towards solving them.

Scope

Not just verification, evaluation, or software engineering, but a holistic view of how we engineer reliable autonomous systems. For the purposes of this conference, “autonomous systems” is synonymous with "systems that make their own decisions and can take their own actions," and includes everything from autonomous decision-making software running in a virtual environment to teams of autonomous robots operating in a distributed physical environment, everything from simple reactive systems with no planning capability to complex systems incorporating machine learning and reasoning engines. Contributions addressing aspects of reliability across the entire life cycle of the system are welcome.

Relevant Topics

General Understanding of Autonomy
Specification and User Needs
Design and Systems Engineering for Reliability
Assessing and Communicating Reliability
Reliability in Context

Audience

Our goal is to enable communication and collaboration across researchers, regulators, industry, and end users in support of improving the reliability of autonomous systems.

Research Communities
Industry / Commercial
Regulatory