Autonomous Systems -- An Architectural Characterization

Understand

The concept of autonomy is key to the IoT vision promising increasing integration of smart services and systems minimizing human intervention.

• This vision challenges our capability to build complex open trustworthy autonomous systems.
• We lack a rigorous common semantic framework for autonomous systems.
• It is remarkable that the debate about autonomous vehicles focuses almost exclusively on AI and learning techniques while it ignores many other equally important autonomous system design issues.