The advent of sophisticated robotics and AI technology makes sending humans into
hazardous and distant environments to carry out inspections increasingly avoidable. Being …

This paper describes IEEE P7001, a new draft standard on transparency of autonomous
systems. In the paper, we outline the development and structure of the draft standard. We …

Modern AI systems have become of widespread use in almost all sectors with a strong
impact on our society. However, the very methods on which they rely, based on Machine …

In this article, we describe an approach to autonomous system construction that not only
supports self-awareness but also formal verification. This is based on modular construction …

BDI agents act in response to external inputs and their internal plan library. Understanding
the root cause of BDI agent action is often difficult, and in this paper we present a dialogue …

Usually, the design of an Autonomous Vehicle (AV) does not take into account traffic rules
and so the adoption of these rules can bring some challenges, eg, how to come up with a …

As robots are more commonly being deployed in shared human-robot environments, the
need for robots to communicate their failures and answer questions about them becomes …

We describe a tool for providing explanation of plans to non-technical users, built on formal
argumentation and dialogue theory, and supported by natural language generation and …

In human-agent collectives, humans and agents need to work collaboratively and agree on
collective decisions. However, ensuring that agents responsibly make decisions is a …

This paper introduces a draft open standard for the robot equivalent of an aircraft flight data
recorder, which we call an ethical black box. This is a device, or software module, capable of …