Researchers at the Center for Autonomy coauthored a NASA report on the vision for autonomy verification and validation. The report brings attention to verification challenges facing the design and deployment of autonomous aircraft in the emerging ecosystem of advanced air mobility. In addition, it proposes a future trajectory for solving these verification challenges as a multidisciplinary research community and conjectures on the enabled technologies that overcoming those challenges might give rise to. A particularly interesting development involves new algorithms and techniques that use learning to train on data posing unique challenges and constitute promising research trajectories within verifying and validating autonomy. Autonomous systems are also increasingly deployed alongside human agents, raising safety, assurance, and regulatory challenges. The report is joint work with industry (Boeing, Collins, and GE), government (NASA), and academia (UT Austin, MIT, and the University of Michigan), thereby developing a comprehensive understanding of these issues.
