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Collective Reasoning for Safe Autonomous Systems

Multiagent Systems 2023-05-22 v1 Computers and Society Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing Systems and Control Systems and Control

Abstract

Collaboration in multi-agent autonomous systems is critical to increase performance while ensuring safety. However, due to heterogeneity of their features in, e.g., perception qualities, some autonomous systems have to be considered more trustworthy than others when contributing to collaboratively build a common environmental model, especially under uncertainty. In this paper, we introduce the idea of increasing the reliability of autonomous systems by relying on collective intelligence. We borrow concepts from social epistemology to exploit individual characteristics of autonomous systems, and define and formalize at design rules for collective reasoning to achieve collaboratively increased safety, trustworthiness and good decision making.

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@article{arxiv.2305.11295,
  title  = {Collective Reasoning for Safe Autonomous Systems},
  author = {Selma Saidi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.11295},
  year   = {2023}
}
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