Automated identification and qualitative characterization of safety concerns reported in uav software platforms

A Di Sorbo, F Zampetti, A Visaggio, M Di Penta… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are nowadays used in a variety of applications. Given the
cyber-physical nature of UAVs, software defects in these systems can cause issues with …

The next generation of human-drone partnerships: Co-designing an emergency response system

A Agrawal, SJ Abraham, B Burger, C Christine… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The use of semi-autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) to support emergency
response scenarios, such as fire surveillance and search and rescue, offers the potential for …

Configuring mission-specific behavior in a product line of collaborating Small Unmanned Aerial Systems

MN Al Islam, MT Chowdhury, A Agrawal… - Journal of Systems and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In emergency response scenarios, autonomous small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS)
must be configured and deployed quickly and safely to perform mission-specific tasks. In this …

Challenges of scaled agile for safety-critical systems

JP Steghöfer, E Knauss, J Horkoff… - … Conference on Product …, 2019 - Springer
Automotive companies increasingly adopt scaled agile methods to allow them to deal with
their organisational and product complexity. Suitable methods are needed to ensure safety …

[HTML][HTML] Cost-effective simulation-based test selection in self-driving cars software

C Birchler, N Ganz, S Khatiri, A Gambi… - Science of Computer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Simulation environments are essential for the continuous development of complex cyber-
physical systems such as self-driving cars (SDCs). Previous results on simulation-based …

Requirements-driven configuration of emergency response missions with small aerial vehicles

J Cleland-Huang, A Agrawal, MNA Islam… - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used by emergency responders to
support search-and-rescue operations, medical supplies delivery, fire surveillance, and …

Adaptive autonomy in human-on-the-loop vision-based robotics systems

S Abraham, Z Carmichael, S Banerjee… - 2021 IEEE/ACM 1st …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computer vision approaches are widely used by autonomous robotic systems to sense the
world around them and to guide their decision making as they perform diverse tasks such as …

Interlocking safety cases for unmanned autonomous systems in shared airspaces

M Vierhauser, S Bayley, J Wyngaard… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The growing adoption of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for tasks such as eCommerce,
aerial surveillance, and environmental monitoring introduces the need for new safety …

Improving requirements elicitation in large-scale software projects with reduced customer engagement: A proposed cost-effective model

T Amin, B Shahzad - Requirements Engineering, 2024 - Springer
Effective requirements elicitation is crucial for the success of large-scale software projects.
However, challenges arise when customers are unavailable or unable to express their …

Model-driven requirements for humans-on-the-loop multi-uav missions

A Agrawal, J Cleland-Huang… - 2020 IEEE Tenth …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of semi-autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or drones) to support
emergency response scenarios, such as fire surveillance and search-and-rescue, has the …