The Design Dream, the Operational Nightmare: How to Ensure that Autonomy Designers' Efforts Deliver on Operator's Dreams

Description

Autonomy offers huge potential benefits across society, in the air, land, sea, and space domains. Everyone involved in autonomy development, from designers to end-users, regulators, and those involved in deploying and maintaining the supporting infrastructure, is doing their best to realize those benefits. So why is autonomy slow to live up to its promise, despite everyone’s best intentions? We suggest that one continuing challenge is communication failures that lead to mismatches between the understanding and assumptions of stakeholders involved in different stages of autonomy design, development, and the operationalization process.

This workshop will take a playful look at places these communication breakdowns can occur through a fun, hands-on design and test process. Participants will discuss real-world examples of autonomy successes and failures and look for common through lines that lead to these outcomes. A set of key lessons for increasing operational success will be shared, and the workshop will conclude with a discussion of how to apply these lessons to the development and operationalization of adaptive autonomy solutions across the expanding range of operating domains.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants, regardless of where they fall in the autonomy development process, will leave with a better understanding of best practices for autonomy success and warning signs of autonomy operationalization pitfalls.
• Participants will gain insights into their own development and operationalization process through a hands-on exercise designed for learning from fun failures and successes.
• Participants will understand the importance of engaging all autonomy stakeholders early in the design process, frequent high-quality testing, and building trust in autonomy.

Agenda:

• Intro – 5 minutes
• Definitions – 5 minutes
• AUVSI’s Trusted Cyber Program Workbook / Access to the AUVSI Certification Platform / Uncrewed Paper Vehicle Challenge – 30 minutes
• Discussion of Real-World Examples – 15 minutes
• Presentation of Plans for Success – 15 minutes
• Discussion of Applying Plans for Success to Adaptive Autonomy – 15 minutes
• Wrap Up and Reiteration of Key Lessons – 5 minutes

Job Role:
C-Level Executive,Consultant,Management,Educator/Instructor,Engineering/Technical,Government/Policy/Regulatory,Remote Pilot/Operator,Research & Development

Pass Type Required:
VIP Pass,Full Conference Pass,Media/Press Pass

Tags:
AI/Machine Learning,Air,BVLOS,Defense,Humanitarian,Ground,Industry,Infrastructure,Maritime,Safety,Security,Environmental,Navigation,Robotics,Sensors & Payloads,Software,Swarming,Standards,Algorithms,Autonomy,Automated Vehicles,Expanded UAS Operations,Human-Machine Teaming,Implementation,R & D