Structuring Research Related to Dynamic Risk Management for Autonomous Systems

Conventional safety engineering is not sufficient to deal with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Autonomous Systems (AS). Some authors propose dynamic safety approaches to deal with the challenges related to AI and AS. These approaches are referred to as dynamic risk management, dynamic safety management, dynamic assurance, or runtime certification [4]. These dynamic safety approaches are related to each other and the research in this field is increasing. In this paper, we structure the research challenges and solution approaches in order to explain why dynamic risk management is needed for dependability of autonomous systems. We will present 5 research areas in this large research field and name for each research area some concrete approaches or standardization activities. We hope the problem decomposition helps to foster effective research collaboration and enables researchers to better navigate the challenges surrounding dynamic risk management.