Software-Enabled Solutions for Human-on-the-Loop Autonomous Systems

ABSTRACT: Software is a key driver of innovation in complex autonomous systems, such as IoT systems, smart cloud systems, or robots. To ensure that such systems are useful and trusted by members of our society, they need to act in an understandable way and meet their users’ requirements. Requirements in this context are often related to qualities, such as performance, security, reliability, or safety. Humans tend to have preferences regarding what requirements are important in different contexts. To help systems understand these requirements and how they change, software-based approaches are needed that enable humans to give input, monitor systems, and intervene when necessary. In this talk, Rebekka will present recent work on how such solutions can be designed to develop better human-on-the-loop autonomous systems.

BIO: Rebekka Wohlrab is an assistant professor at Chalmers University of Technology, and an adjunct faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests include requirements engineering and software architecture, especially in connection with human-on-the-loop autonomous systems. She received her Ph.D. in computer science from Chalmers University of Technology. You can find more information about her work on her website: https://rebekkaa.github.io/