PANELS

Thursday 30 January, 2020

St Exupery Room 16:00 - 17:00

PANEL 1

Certification of machine learning for safety critical applications:
probable, plausible or impractical?

Moderator

Claire Pagetti, ONERA/ENSEEIHT – ANITI chair on certifAI - France

Panelists

Hugues Bonnin, Continental Digital Service, France
Loïc Correnson, Senior Expert CEA - France
Christophe Gabreau, Airbus - Eurocae WG114 group leader - France
Franck Mamalet, DEEL "certification of AI" mission co-animator - France
Guillaume Soudain, EASA – Software Senior Expert - Germany

Summary

Artificial Intelligence based applications have offered unthinkable progress in many areas and have invaded transport systems like aircraft, cars, rail, and all critical embedded systems. While the performance gains and huge opportunities offered by machine learning are enticing, their embedding is impeded by their seemingly unpredictable nature, which is incompatible with safety critical environments and certification. Indeed, the design of safety critical systems requires demonstrations able to argument for the dependability of the results of such complex algorithms. Still, a number of initiatives and working groups are focusing on defining and determining the means for manufacturers to fulfill certification expectations despite the complex and uncontrolled internal behaviors of machine learning.

Thursday 30 January, 2020

St Exupery Room 18:00 - 18:30

Special FOCUS SESSION

BUILDING THE FUTURE TODAY : a certification path for Hyperloop technology

Moderator

Mohamed Kaâniche, LAAS - France

Panelists

Benjamin Pasquier, RAMS Engineering director, Virgin Hyperloop One
Jean Louis Boulanger, assessor Leader, Certifier

Summary

In the process of building the world’s first hyperloop system, Virgin Hyperloop One (VHO) is creating a disruption in the transportation industry. We see the rise of a new mode - travel in low pressure tubes under electromagnetic propulsion and levitation at speeds close to 1000 km/h – at the same time the regulatory framework is developing for the technology. 

Together, VHO and Certifer will outline the process and challenges for transitioning a company from a start-up with ground-breaking technology to a mature transportation company capable to deliver a certified first deployment in a matter of years.

Friday 31 January, 2020

St Exupery Room 11:00-11:45
                     

PANEL 2

CHALLENGES FOR ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM WITH HUMAIN INTERACTION: A MULTI DOMAIN PERSPECTIVE

Moderators

Helene Gaspard-Boulinc, DSNA/DTI - France
Philippe Palanque, IRIT- France

Panelists

Marc Garbey, Institute for Academic Medicine at Houston Methodist and Weill Cornell Medical College, USA
Hélène Waeselynck LAAS- Agriculture
Stéphane Chatty DGAC- Contrôle aérien
Christine GRIS Expert Flight Warning, Airbus

Summary

The aim of this panel is to raise awareness and to foster discussions around the notions of Automation and User Interaction and their interplay in the design, development, evaluation and deployment of interactive systems.The panel will bring diverse (potentially conflicting) perspectives on User Interaction in a world that embeds increasing automation. While early approaches in automation were focusing on allocating basic functions to the best player (e.g. Fitts’ approach Machine Are Better At – Men Are Better At), this panel focuses on the combined use of the concepts of automation within interactive systems development. Current push in automation is towards fully autonomous systems (such as google cars) raising critical issues such as: how to make it possible to users to foresee future states of the automation, how to disengage automation or how to make sure that users are able to take over when automation fails …. When higher automation levels are considered, users’ activity gets closer to supervision, which is a different interaction paradigm deeply impacting user interaction. In domains such as medical care and transportation, safety is at stake.