UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Node in Security
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Computing & Communications
Abstract
Autonomous Systems (AS) are cyberphysical complex systems that combine artificial intelligence with multi-layer operations. Security for dynamic and networked ASs has to develop new methods to address an uncertain and shifting operational environment and usage space. As such, we have developed an ambitious program to develop fundamental secure AS research covering both the technical and social aspects of security. Our research program is coupled with internationally leading test facilities for AS and security, providing a research platform for not only this TAS node, but the whole TAS ecosystem. To enhance impact, we have built a partnership with leading AS operators in the UK and across the world, ranging from industrial designers to frontline end-users. Our long-term goal is to translate the internationally leading research into real-world AS impact via a number of impact pathways. The research will accelerate UK's position as a leader in secure AS research and promote a safer society.
Organisations
- Lancaster University (Lead Research Organisation)
- HIGHWAYS ENGLAND (Collaboration)
- TTTech Computertechnik (Collaboration)
- Airbus Group (Collaboration)
- Lancashire Police Service (Collaboration)
- BAE Systems (United Kingdom) (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Project Partner)
- Academia Sinica (Project Partner)
- Airbus (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- CODE Research Institute (Project Partner)
- Carnegie Mellon University (Project Partner)
- TTTech Group (Project Partner)
- Thales (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Arthurs Legal (Project Partner)
- RISE Research Institutes of Sweden (Project Partner)
- Raytheon (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Manchester Cyber Foundry (Project Partner)
- Austrian Institute of Technology (Project Partner)
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency (Project Partner)
Publications
Abeywickrama, D. B. , B
(2022)
On Specifying for Trustworthiness
in arXiv
Chuah E
(2022)
A Survey of Log-Correlation Tools for Failure Diagnosis and Prediction in Cluster Systems
in IEEE Access
Chuah E
(2021)
Challenges in Identifying Network Attacks Using Netflow Data
ChuahM E
(2021)
Failure Diagnosis for Cluster Systems using Partial Correlations
Huang Y
(2023)
Physical-Layer Counterattack Strategies for the Internet of Bio-Nano Things with Molecular Communication
in IEEE Internet of Things Magazine
Kastanakis S
(2023)
Replication: 20 Years of Inferring Interdomain Routing Policies
Kastanakis S
(2022)
Understanding the confounding factors of inter-domain routing modeling
Li C
(2023)
Scarce data driven deep learning of drones via generalized data distribution space
in Neural Computing and Applications
Lu Y
(2023)
Privacy-preserving Decentralized Federated Learning over Time-varying Communication Graph
in ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security
Luján Escalante M
(2022)
Ethics through design
Manzoor S
(2022)
Poster
Manzoor S
(2022)
Poster
Moffat L
(2023)
Relational Approaches to Autonomous Systems Ethics
Qiu S
(2023)
Review of Physical Layer Security in Molecular Internet of Nano-Things.
in IEEE transactions on nanobioscience
S. Kastanakis
(2022)
Understanding the confounding factors of inter-domain routing modeling
S. Kastanakis
(2022)
Understanding the confounding factors of inter-domain routing modeling
S. Manzoor
(2022)
ThreatPro: Multi-Layer Threat Analysis in the Cloud
in arXiv
S. Manzoor
(2022)
Multi-Layer Threat Analysis of the Cloud
Sogokon, A.
(2023)
Specifying Autonomous System Behaviour
in arXiv
W. Hackett
(2022)
PINCH: An Adversarial Extraction Attack Framework for Deep Learning Models
in ArXiv
Wei Z
(2023)
Adversarial Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Against Physical Layer Key Generation
in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
Wei Z
(2022)
A Multi-Eavesdropper Scheme Against RIS Secured LoS-Dominated Channel
in IEEE Communications Letters
Y. Chen
(2022)
Towards Effective Performance Fuzzing.
Y. Chen
(2022)
SlowCoach: Mutating Code to Simulate Performance Bugs
Yuksek B
(2021)
Cooperative Planning for an Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle Fleet Using Reinforcement Learning
in Journal of Aerospace Information Systems
| Description | The project has detailed a technical report on formalizing the safety & security specifications for autonomous systems and their operational environments. The specifications generalize to cover the different dimensions of movement for both ground and aerial operations under a common specification basis. In addition, the approach is significant for establishing a cohesive specification basis for both discrete and continuous state operations. We believe this development could be significant as a reference document for the broader TAS community and the report has been distributed to the TAS Hub and all Nodes. The project has developed a new perturbation/attack-resilient Deep Learning architecture that explicitly supports the operations of autonomous systems factoring in mobility and clustered data distributions. The value lies in proposing a clean-slate explainable-by-design architecture versus the contemporary approaches of "adjusting" DL architectures to fit AS operations. While the 2021-2022 disruption caused by Covid precluded our researchers to undertake in-person secondments at industrial partners as originally planned, the industrial interactions were alternately developed over an enhanced seminar and video engagement fora. Similarly, it was not been possible to hold our 2022 TAS-S External Stakeholders Group Meeting face-to-face as originally planned for the same reasons. However, it will be held face-to-face in April 2023. |
| Exploitation Route | The AS environment and operations specifications document was developed in active discussion with Airbus and TTTech who are also championing its dissemination and incorporation in the AS practitioner community. We believe TAS-S's expanding engagement with a) National Highways and b) with BSI's - British Standards Institute TC 241 developing new standards (due 2023-end) for Road Traffic Management Systems will result in actual usage and impact of the TAS-S results. |
| Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Security and Diplomacy,Transport |
| URL | https://tas-security.lancs.ac.uk/publications/ |
| Description | As can be seen in other sections of our submission, we have been collaborating with several industrial partners and public bodies to explore their priority areas for AI to ensure our ongoing will be impactful outside of academia. Even though the project is still ongoing, we are already beginning to see the outcomes from our partnerships, collaborative activities, and membership on expert panels starting to have an impact on several organisations' policy and direction across several different sectors. As mentioned in the key findings section, the AS specifications document (with active support from Airbus and TTTech) , the development of the ML architecture for AS operations, the involvement of NH as a TAS-S proponent and the active role in ISO/BSI standards for road safety operations are early impact points for the project. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2022 |
| Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Transport |
| Impact Types | Societal,Economic |
| Description | Contribution towards IEEE Standard on explainable AI, P2976. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Technical Committee (TC 241), BSI Road Traffic Safety management systems of the International Organization for Standardization. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | The objective of this work is to lay out a framework for the development of a standard for ethical and societally accepted driving policy (e.g., those relating to fairness and equity with respect to other road users, the public space, and the environment). Further details can be found via the links below. https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:39003:dis:ed-1:v1:en https://standardsdevelopment.bsigroup.com/projects/2019-02348#/section |
| URL | https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:39003:dis:ed-1:v1:en |
| Description | Horizon Europe: European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI (ELSA) |
| Amount | £10,000,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 10039164 |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 08/2025 |
| Description | Physical Graph Based Wireless IoT Security with No Key Exchange (GraphSec) |
| Amount | £235,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | A1GW441 |
| Organisation | PETRAS |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2021 |
| End | 05/2023 |
| Description | SL: Institutional Sponsorship 2021/22: International Partnerships |
| Amount | £150,596 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W524220/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | SL: PINCH: An End-to-end Cyber Security Technology to Better Understand the Risks of Deep Learning Model Stealing |
| Amount | £22,971 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | A107680 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2022 |
| End | 07/2022 |
| Title | A Simulation Environment for AI-aided Navigation of Autonomous Systems |
| Description | The main aim of this simulation environment is to provide detailed mathematical model of the environment that autonomous systems are operating in . The system runs based on Unreal Engine and Airsim. It includes dynamical models of ground/aerial vehicles with sensor models such as inertial measurement unit (IMU), global positioning system (GPS), cameras and Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR). |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | None arisen just yet as only launched in 2022. |
| Title | Autonomous Systems Protocol Testbed |
| Description | This is a testbed to replay, simulate, and benchmark autonomous systems communications supporting dynamic topologies, network state fluctuations, and highly scalable (2 to 10k instances). Our testbed uses Testground. Testground is a platform for testing, benchmarking, and simulating distributed and peer-to-peer systems at scale. It's designed to be multi-lingual and runtime-agnostic, scaling gracefully from 2 to 10k instances, only when needed. This testbed allow us to test communication with: |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This testbed has just been completed with current work packages planned. This section will be updated as these outcomes occur. |
| URL | https://tas-security.lancs.ac.uk/aspt/ |
| Title | Real UAV Flight Arena |
| Description | This is a real UAV experiment indoor platform called Arena in Building 83 of Cranfield University Main campus. The platform is assisted by Vicon system for UAV positioning and IMU and MARG data measurement. The aim is to run designed algorithms in real scenarios, and bridge the gap between academia and industry perspectives. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | None yet |
| Description | Collaboration with Airbus |
| Organisation | Airbus Group |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Outlining of AS operational scenarios and associated risks for sanity checks. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Participation in TAS-S Seminars; Access to Airbus swarm communication attack data. Exploring priority areas, such as cybersecurity issues of autonomous drone swarms operating in controlled commercial airspace. |
| Impact | Airbus TAS-S seminar; Contribution to the TAS-S report on "Specification of AS Behavior" |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration with BAE Systems |
| Organisation | BAE Systems |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | A broad aim of the collaboration is to correlate the academic AS requirements to real-word requirements of large scale autonomous drone systems for security risks to multi-object control stability, AI-based decision making and collation of sensory data for navigation. This alignment has helped form the basis for the report on Specifications of AS Behavior which is being used a reference document in the TAS-S project and also disseminated to other TAS nodes. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discussions on security issues in large scale drone swarms as FCAS (Future Combat Aerospace Systems). Discussions on drone operational and attack datasets. Seminars to TAS-S. |
| Impact | Contribution to the TAS-S report on "Specification of AS Behavior". Support for joint proposals on AS testing/verification/validation. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration with Lancashire Police |
| Organisation | Lancashire Police Service |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Discussions on security risks in drone deployment in civilian aerospace |
| Collaborator Contribution | Case studies on tracking/surveillance using semi-autonomous drones. |
| Impact | Environment and usage data from drone deployments. Real-world usage data and disruption scenarios used in the development of TAS-S research |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration with National Highways |
| Organisation | Highways England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Facilitating workshops and co-designing ethically informed practices when it comes to implementing and governing secure automation across National Highways' remit. One of the broader aims of our collaboration is the co-creation of an ethical toolkit, which offers guidance, tools, and recommendations for the increasing amount of automation that will become part of the UK's road, manufacturing, and construction infrastructures. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Exploring National Highways' key priority areas, such as connected autonomous vehicles (CAV), connected and autonomous plant, digital roads, public engagement, and cybersecurity. |
| Impact | This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration between industry, sociology, philosophy, law and AI. We are developing co-created guidance that will form transitions report impacting National Highways future practices. In addition to two workshops held with National Highways, in Winter 2022, we conducted a large scale Ipsos survey on public attitudes towards CAV safety. This is currently being followed up with several focus groups which will lead to public impact. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Collaboration with TTTech |
| Organisation | TTTech Computertechnik |
| Country | Austria |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Developing formal requirements on safety and control behavior to support TTTech's specification and verification of autonomous driving architectures. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Participation in TAS-S Seminars; Access to TTTech's reference architecture specification and vehicular perturbation data |
| Impact | Contribution to the TAS-S report on "Specification of AS Behavior" |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Company Name | MINDGARD LTD |
| Description | Mindgard rapidly uncovers cyber threats against artificial intelligence. Our product empowers businesses to securely deploy their mission-critical AI within an everchanging cyber landscape. |
| Year Established | 2022 |
| Impact | Ongoing, MINDGARD was only created in 2022. |
| Website | https://mindgard.ai/ |
| Description | @TAS_Security Twitter account |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Twitter account for the TAS-S project (@TAS_Security). Engaging with the latest news and activities across our project, the TAS Network and the wider field. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | http://www.twitter.com/TAS_Security |
| Description | A Rapid Evidence Review of Methods: Autonomous Vehicle Security and Human Behaviour |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A poster on 'A Rapid Evidence Review of Methods: Autonomous Vehicle Security and Human Behaviour' was presented online at the TAS All Hands Workshop in September 2021, which highlighted some of the current research being undertaking by research strand 3. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://tas-security.lancs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Autonomous-Vehicle-Security-and-Human-Behaviour-... |
| Description | A new job at Lancaster University! |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog by our Senior Research Associate,Dr. Zhengxin Yu, about the work she will be undertaking as part of her new role at Lancaster University. Since it was published in July 2021, the blog has had around 300 hits. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://tas-security.lancs.ac.uk/a-new-job-at-lancaster-university/ |
| Description | ADINJC & Intelligent Instructor National Conference and Expo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In October 2022, our Co-I, Dr Lisa Dorn gave a talk at the ADINJC & Intelligent Instructor National Conference & Expo with over 750 visitors. The talk was entitled 'Autonomous and automated vehicles; What do driving instructors need to know? Dr. Dorn's talks influenced training regimes for young people learning to drive who may be unprepared for automated vehicles. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.adinjc.org.uk/conference/ |
| Description | AI in Education & ethics through design workshops. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr. Luke Moffat is working with the University of Tubingen, Germany. He has run a workshop on AI in Education & ethics through design to 5 participants. Impacts include: developing an AI ethics for education & consumer network, and future funding bids planned with partners at Tubingen and University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | AI-aided Safety in Urban Airspace: From a Dream to the Real World |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog outlining the collaborative research being undertaken by Dr. Zhengxin Yu (Lancaster) and Dr. Burak Yuksek (Cranfield). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://tas-security.lancs.ac.uk/ai-aided-safety/ |
| Description | Autonomous Systems, aviation and TAS-S |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Blog by our Research Fellow, Dr. Burak Yuksek, on how an early love for aviation led him to Cranfield University and the research he is undertaking as part of TAS-S. Since it was published in June 2021, this blog has had around 300 hits. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://tas-security.lancs.ac.uk/aviation-and-autonomous-systems/ |
| Description | Challenges of Living with Artificial Intelligence |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | TAS Hub Living with AI Podcast: 'Challenges of Living with Artificial Intelligence' with Prof. Neeraj Suri (24/03/2021) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.buzzsprout.com/1447474/8022176 |
| Description | Collaborative discussions with TAS-S External Stakeholder Group Members |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | All TAS-S Co-Is are involved in regular discussions with our external stakeholders across industry. These take place regularly on a one-to-one and group basis and focus on how the research from that particular research strand can be applied outside of academia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | Computing-Enabled Networked Physical Systems (CPNS) Interagency Working Group (IWG) monthly meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | On the 1st June 2022, Prof. Neeraj Suri gave another talk to the CNPS IWG on "Trustworthy Autonomous Systems - The Dimensions of Security". this was a follow-up event to the talk Prof. Suri gave to the CNPS IWG on the 6th April 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Delivering the AI Strategy - the use of new AI technologies in industry and the public sector |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | In September 2021, the UK Government published the National AI Strategy. Part of this Strategy is to support the transition to an AI-enabled economy. In this event, discussions focussed on how AI technologies are being deployed now in the public and private sectors, and expectations for the coming years. Prof. Neeraj Suri attended this event on the 23rd February 2022 and this was a valuable opportunity to engage with policymakers and other professional practitioners, and highlight the work being undertaken by TAS-S. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.foundation.org.uk/Events/2022/Delivering-the-AI-Strategy-%E2%80%93-the-use-of-new-AI-tec |
| Description | Discussions with Lancashire Police. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Neeraj Suri held a meeting with Lancashire Constabulary on the 23rd September 2021 regarding a collaboration on the use of aerial surveillance to support vehicle forensics. 8 people attended including the Head of DMIU), the DI for Digital Investigations, Vehicle unit and cyber, and the DFU manager. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | Discussions with NHTSA, US DOD and NSF |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | From the 12th-15th July 2021 and 10th-25th October 2021, Prof. Neeraj Suri held discussions with the National Science Foundation, US Department of Defense, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Driverless cars step closer to our roads with new self-learning AI technology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | News article form Mirage News (Australia) regarding the work our researchers, Prof Plamen Angelov and Eduardo Almeida Soares. It particularly focusses on the work they have been undertaking with regards to deep learning systems and autonomous vehicles. Published 16th December 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.miragenews.com/driverless-cars-step-closer-to-our-roads-with-695937/ |
| Description | ELSI Workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog by our Research Associate, Dr. Luke Moffat, explaining the work research strand 3 is doing with regards to ELSI (Ethical, Legal and Social Implications) in relation to TAS-S research. Since it was published in July 2021, the blog has had around 300 hits. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://tas-security.lancs.ac.uk/elsi-workshops/ |
| Description | ELSI, Workshops, and the things in-between |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog by our Research Associate, Dr. Luke Moffat exploring how his background in philosophy is informing his current research. Since it was published in September 2021, the blog has had around 150 hits. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://tas-security.lancs.ac.uk/elsi-workshops-and-the-things-in-between/ |
| Description | Engagement with BAE Systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | We have been conducting research about AI-aided intelligent mission planning and tactics development with BAE Systems (Dr. Burak Yuksek, Cranfield University) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | European Commission Cybersecurity Roadmap Task group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Neeraj Suri was invited to join this task group,which first met on the 19th Feb 2021 and monthly meetings from then on. Discussions were held around the security aspects of the TAS-S project, and advocacy of the TAS-S compositional security approach. Future workshop planned for March 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | European Commission Cybersecurity Roadmap Task group-plenary |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 19th February 2022 (Prof. Neeraj Suri): Advocacy of security aspects in TAS; policy makers; Advocacy of TAS-S compositional security approach [meetings with this task group are happening monthly in addition to the plenary). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | External Stakeholders' Group (ESG) Meeting 2022. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The second TAS-S External Stakeholders' Group (ESG) meeting took place online on Tuesday, 1st March and was attended by around 40 participants from nearly 30 different organisations across industry, policy, law and academia. The theme for this year's workshop was 'Requirements, Approaches & Challenges in Trustworthy Autonomous Systems'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://tas-security.lancs.ac.uk/esg2022/ |
| Description | Fireside Chat: Introduction to TAS-S |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Neeraj Suri was invited to give a talk about the aims and research of the TAS-S node as part of the TAS All Hands Workshop in September 2021. This workshop brought together researchers and industry with interests in the specification requirements for trustworthy autonomous systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.tas.ac.uk/bigeventscpt/all-hands-meeting/ |
| Description | From Mexico to Milton Keynes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog by our Research Fellow, Dr. Oscar Gonzalez Villarreal, about his research interests and the work he is undertaken as part of the TAS-S project. Since it was published in February 2022, the blog has had around 50 hits. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://tas-security.lancs.ac.uk/from-mexico-to-milton-keynes/ |
| Description | GM/BMW/TUV-Germany |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 15th March 2021: Prof. Neeraj Suri took part in a discussion on Regulatory and Certification issues for autonomous vehicles with GM, BMW and TUV Germany (the German Regulatory Agency). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Group seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 14th, 19th and 20th April: Discussions with Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. The Department of Computer Sciences at Stanford University and NASA Ames. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Group seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 13th April 2022: Discussions with the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Secuirty composition and Secure machine learning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | HFM European Technology Summit 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Feb 28, 2022: Fireside Chat/Panel at HFM EU Technology Summit on Cyber Risk Mitigation & Data Loss Prevention; Around 250 people attended. Prof. Neeraj Suri gave a position statement on Cybersecurity issues in autonomous systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | IEEE ACSOS Regional Event UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Around 25 people attended this event, which was co-sponsored by Prof. Plamen Angelov, and LIRA on the 29th July, Prof. Michael Fisher (Uni of Manchester and the TAS Verification Node) gave a talk on "Verification in Autonomous Systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Interview on the Cyberwire pod cast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | I was interviewed on the Cyberwire regarding the technical activity of the network research work package. The cyberwire podcast is a well regarded by industry and has a global reach. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/daily-podcast |
| Description | Interview with Barclays |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview by Barclays Eagle Labs with Prof. Neeraj Suri and Prof. Corinne May-Chahal regarding "How universities and businesses can work together to foster innovation: Practical advice on taking cyber security research through to commercialisation from academics with extensive experience". interview published online (9th May 2022) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://labs.uk.barclays/learning-and-insights/news-and-insights/technology/how-universities-and-bus... |
| Description | Meetings with senior management in industry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | From the 15th-19th Nov 2021, Prof. Neeraj Suri held meetings with senior management of Lufthansa, Deutsche Bahn, Siemens, Continental, Audi and Bosch to promote the approach being taken by TAS-S and influence products and standards along with collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | Mentorship session: Fellowships and Funding: |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Weisi Guo joined a panel of academics to discuss experiences of applying for funding and Fellowship opportunities in a session aimed at early career researchers across the whole TAS programme. This was part of the TAS All Hands Workshop in September 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.tas.ac.uk/bigeventscpt/all-hands-meeting/ |
| Description | NHS Lancashire Healthier Living Programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 17th March 2021: Prof. Neeraj Suri took part in a discussion with the NHS on cybersecurity issues and the use of autonomous medical support systems. This influenced the NHS decision on the use and deployment of AS for monitoring and patient support. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | National Highways 1st Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | On the 18th January, research strand 3 held our first exploratory workshop with National Highways, which represents the beginning of our new partnership over the next 8 months. One of the broader aims of our collaboration is the co-creation of an ethical toolkit, which offers guidance, tools, and recommendations for the increasing amount of automation that will become part of the UK's road, manufacturing, and construction infrastructures.The workshop provided space for people across National Highways to give us more insight into their ongoing projects. These include areas such as connected autonomous vehicles (CAV), connected and autonomous plant, digital roads, public engagement, and cybersecurity. This fed into the main workshop activity, a value mapping exercise, which helped to visualise the key priorities and issues National Highways are tackling, and how they connect. The discussions in the workshop were extensive and wide-ranging, covering a plethora of interconnected and complex challenges, opportunities, and priorities in National Highways' future. What both moderators and participants shared was an acute awareness of the need for proactive, ethically informed practices when it comes to designing, implementing and governing secure automation across National Highways' remit |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | National Highways 2nd Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | On 6th May, Lancaster-based colleagues from TAS-S Research Strand 3 (RS3) and approx 18 National Highways colleagues returned to cyberspace to meet for the second workshop in our collaboration. After opening many exciting avenues of discussion in the first workshop back in January, this second meeting gave us a chance to dive deeper into some key themes and areas of work which National Highways are currently managing. While in this work there are many issues of interest to us as researchers, that could likely fuel endless discussions, we organised this workshop around two core themes: Organisational Adaptation, and Public Engagement. In the workshop we also proposed our plan for further collaborative research on these themes, which would focus on three case studies. Each is an area where National Highways is engaged in exploring the potentials and challenges of autonomous systems. We are exploring each of these case studies in depth with National Highways, with a particular focus on issues of security and ethics. The three case studies are 1). Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, 2). Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, and 3). Supply Chain Challenges. In the second half of the workshop, we transported discussions around our case studies into a game of cards (see the results here). This wasn't your everyday Texas hold'em though. This was the latest iteration of the isITethical? card game, where players are presented with a series of value cards, each describing ethical, legal and social (ELSI) values in the context of autonomous systems. The aim of the game is for participants to reach consensus on a set of three value cards that form the foundation for an "ELSI vision": a reiterative, contextual framework of values that informs and negotiates with future practices. Not all values on the cards necessarily align - some even conflict. Each player receives a value card visible only to them, and must make the case to either replace one of the three communal value cards with their own, discard it, or add another space. The discussion through each round was both fascinating and challenging, as different perspectives converged and diverged. In the end, we agreed upon three values, with a fourth rallying for its own position. These values were security, Two-Spirit, Accountability, and Trust. The next workshop is planned for September 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://tas-security.lancs.ac.uk/national-highways-workshop-2/ |
| Description | New Collaborations: TAS-S and National Highways |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Blog and website update by our Research Associate, Dr. Luke Moffat, outlining our new project collaboration with National Highways. This includes a series of workshops and we aim to co-create an ethical toolkit, which offers guidance, tools, and recommendations for the increasing amount of automation that will become part of the UK's road, manufacturing, and construction infrastructures. This information has had around 70 hits since being published on the 17th February 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://tas-security.lancs.ac.uk/national-highways/ |
| Description | New Zealand Institute of Driver Educators National Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In August 2022, our Co-I Dr Lisa Dorn gave a presentation to New Zealand's driving instructors entitled 'Human Factors and road risk management' covering future vehicles and how to train learner drivers.over 100 people attended this talk. The impact of this talk was that it influenced training regimes in New Zealand for young people using automated vehicles. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://nzide.glueup.com/en/event/nzide-47th-national-conference-2022-53079/ |
| Description | Panel/workshop with Continental/Airbus |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Around 40 people attended this panel and workshop with Prof. Neeraj Suri to assess the implications on the use of AS technology and security ramifications; Industry; plans for future activity and influence on choice of technology. 19th March 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Papers Chair for First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS '23) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In December 2022, Dr. Burak Yuksek was invited as Papers Chair for the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS '23) which will be held on the 11-12 July 2023 in Edinburgh, UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://symposium.tas.ac.uk/ |
| Description | PhD to PDRA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog by our Research Fellow, Dr. Zhuangkun Wei, about his background, new role as part of the project, and the publication of his first security paper. Since it was published in November 2021, the blog has had around 200 hits. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://tas-security.lancs.ac.uk/phd-to-pdra/ |
| Description | Policy/Standardization Board meetings: ISO 26262 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Neeraj Suri was involved with the Policy/Standardization Board mtgs: ISO 26262 spread over Sept- Nov 2021 As these meetings are by-invitation only, TAS-S interfaces via GM and Uber for this engagement |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | Presentation to TAS Strategic Advisory Network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 28th February 2022: Prof. Neeraj Suri gave a presentation on TAS-S to the TAS Strategic Advisory Network. This network is made up of experts from policy, industry, academia and health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Relational Critiques of Autonomous Systems: Speculating Automated Urban Futures |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Luke Moffat gave a talk on "Relational Critiques of Autonomous Systems: Speculating Automated Urban Futures" to Taiwan National University on the 22nd July 2022. Around 20 people attended and the abstract is below: Autonomous and/or Intelligent Systems (A/IS) are often conceptualised according to a model of autonomy characterised by freedom from interference, also called negative autonomy. What makes a system autonomous, according to this model, is the feature of independently giving a rule to oneself. Feminist critiques of autonomy, in particular, theories of relational autonomy, challenge this negative model by drawing attention to the necessity of interdependence, connection, and entanglement for someone - or something - to be considered autonomous. Dominant modes of assessing the autonomy of a system rely on what Benhabib calls the 'illusion of a disembedded and disembodied self', carried over from a largely Kantian model of autonomy. The reality, however, of how A/IS operate in the world, in both urbanised and rural spaces, is increasingly relational. The "westernizing dream" of an autonomous drone that needs no interference from human beings is neither likely nor desirable. With that in mind, this paper explores how relational theories of autonomy help for A/IS. It views A/IS not as discrete isolated individuals governed by negative liberty, but as interdependent, entangled constellations. Considering A/IS otherwise, not as self-prescribing, isolated nodes, but as vast constellations of material, philosophical and political realities, has far reaching consequences for an individualist ethics that holds only single discrete individuals accountable. How would the design, implementation and governance of A/IS be affected by relational approaches, and in what ways can that impact a rethinking of both urban and rural spaces that is necessary to accommodate diverse cultures of adoption? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Secure Operations of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A poster on 'Secure Operations of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems' was presented online at the TAS All Hands Workshop in September 2021, which highlighted some of the current research being undertaking by research strand 2. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://tas-security.lancs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Secure-Operations-of-Trustworthy-Autonomous-Syst... |
| Description | Social Science and the Ethics of Digital Technologies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This talk took place on the 15th July, 2021. Our Co-Is, Prof. Corinne May-Chahal, Dr. Joe Deville, Dr. Catherine Easton and our Research Associate, Dr. Luke Moffat, gave a presentation to 30-35 undergraduate students at Lancaster University on the topic of "Social Science and the Ethics of Digital Technologies". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Surveillance Workshop: Use and Abuse of AS for Surveillance |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 20th September 2021: Prof. Neeraj Suri took part in a workshop on the Use and Abuse of AS for Surveillance. Around 25 researchers attended, mainly from Lancaster University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | TAS All Hands Meeting: Specifying for Trustworthiness. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Our Research Associate, Dr. Luke Moffat, was an invited speaker at the workshop 'Specifying for Trustworthiness', which brought together researchers and industry with interests in the specification requirements for trustworthy autonomous systems. Discussions focussed around identifying intellectual challenges that could be developed into collaborative research projects. This formed part of the TAS All Hands meeting in September 2021. Update, March 2023: As a result of the fruitful discussions held at this Specifying for Trustworthiness workshop during the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) All Hands Meeting in September 2021, Dr. Luke Moffat went on to collaborate with other researchers from the workshop to publish: Abeywickrama, D. B. et al. (2022) On Specifying for Trustworthiness, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2206.11421 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.tas.ac.uk/bigeventscpt/all-hands-meeting/ |
| Description | TAS Thought Piece Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | 9th December 2021. This workshop created discussions between the TAS-S Node, the wider TAS-S Network and external stakeholders from industry regarding the issues, methodologies, applications, use cases, results and vision of the security node. This workshop was the first step towards creating a white paper on the security of autonomous systems. (Involvement: Prof. Neeraj Suri, Prof. Corinne May-Chahal, Prof. Weisi Guo). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | TAS Thought Pieces with Thales |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Security Node took part in a workshop with Thales to develop a "thought piece" article based on Thales' use cases. This resulted in an article focussing on "Keeping Our Autonomous Systems Secure in an Uncertain World". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://tas.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Article-3-Security-online-FINAL.pdf |
| Description | TAS-S External Stakeholders' Group Meeting (2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | TAS-S, as the security node in the EPSRC's Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) programme, held its first External Stakeholders Group (ESG) workshop on 29th March, 2021. The TAS-S stakeholders, as an international representation of prominent autonomous systems leaders, numbered about 50 participants from 30 academic, governmental and industrial organizations. The full-day event provided the TAS-S investigators and its external stakeholders with a critical opportunity to network, albeit virtually, as the collective TAS-S team! |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://tas-security.lancs.ac.uk/esg1/ |
| Description | TAS-S Overview seminar (6th April) with Computing-Enabled Networked Physical Systems (CPNS) Interagency Working Group at the US National Co-ordination Office for Networking and Information Technology (NCO/NITRD) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Neeraj Suri gave an overview of TAS-S Research on the 6th April 2022 to 19 attendees from a range of industries/sectors including the National Institue of Standards and Technology (NIST), US Department of Justice, United States Air Force, US Navy, Stanford University, the Science and Technology Directorate, The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD), The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Security Agency. This government group coordinates US Federal R&D centering on complex, high-reliability, safety and security-critical, real-time computing, and engineered systems with varying degrees of autonomy and human-system interaction. A further follow-up activity was then planned for June 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.nitrd.gov/coordination-areas/cnps/ |
| Description | TAS-S Website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | TAS-S website which engages with our external stakeholders, and other members of industry, academia and policy, regarding our latest research activities and news from around the sector. The website contains a lot of information, including details of our upcoming seminars and news from across the wider sector. We have had over 23,500 hits as of March 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023 |
| URL | https://tas-security.lancs.ac.uk/ |
| Description | TAS-S and National Highways: Creative Methods for Collaboration (seminar for TAS-G node) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Approx. 12 people attended this seminar which was presented to the TAS Governance node on the 8th June 2022. Abstract: As part of the Security node, our research strand is collaboration with organisations to co-create ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI) guidance in working with autonomous systems developers, legislators, and users. In this talk we summarise some recent work with National Highways, in relation to their growing focus on autonomous systems across diverse public and private domains. In particular, we highlight some of the creative and arts based methods that can help open spaces for critical and circumspect reflection on difficult and multifaceted issues around things like public engagement, third party contacting, and customer protection. We conclude with some initial insights from this work and their potential wider relevance for governance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://governance.tas.ac.uk/2022/04/06/governance-and-regulation-seminar-luke-moffat-joe-deville-ca... |
| Description | Talk at Safe and Trustworthy AI Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Talk on Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning based Physical Layer Secret Key Generation for Contaminated Channels. Z. Wei and W. Guo. Safe and Trustworthy AI Workshop, 3rd November 2022, London, UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk to LIRA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | On the 24th of Nov 2022, Dr. Burak Yuksek (Cranfield University) gave a talk about AI-based flight control and navigation systems for Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre at Lancaster University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | The First IFIP Workshop on Intelligent Vehicle Dependability and Security (IVDS) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Neeraj Suri attended this event from 29th January to the 1st February 2021 and took this valuable opportunity to engage with around 70 experts from across industry, academia,and other professional practitioners. The workshop focussed on discussing the hypothesis that "level 3 autonomous vehicles cannot be made acceptably safe with current technology and practices". Follow up workshop took place in June 2022 with Prof. Suri as a named speaker (please see Awards and Recognition section) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ivds2021.dependability.org/index.html#home |
| Description | The Institute of Engineering and Technology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | In May 2021, Co-I Dr Lisa Dorn gave a talk on "Automated Vehicles: Distraction and Behavioural Adaptation" which was attended by over 100 people. The talk aimed to give engineers a better appreciation and understanding of the role of behavioural science in the design and operation of transport-related products and services. The impact of this talk was that it influenced engineers on how to take into account human factors in the design of in-vehicle systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | The University with an Airport! |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog outlining Lancaster colleagues' visit to Cranfield and the testbeds visited there. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://tas-security.lancs.ac.uk/cranfield/ |
| Description | Towards More Interpretable & Greener Deep Learning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On the 23rd June 2022, Prof. Weisi Guo gave a talk to GCHQ regarding "Towards More Interpretable & Greener Deep Learning". Approx. 40 people attended and the abstrac tis below: Global ICT carbon footprint is relatively small but rising rapidly over the past decade. AI is contributing significantly, doubling its carbon footprint every 3-4 months. Whilst sustainable and green ICT has been an active research area, applying it to deep learning remains an area not fully understood. Here, we argue that interpreting deep learning and understanding how it learns data structures is crucial to the sustainability process. We offer a presentation on last 5 years of research on analytical and computational ways to reduce deep learning energy consumption. Our methods range from modeling transistor operations of algorithms, to 1-shot learning through topological data analysis, to federated real-time pruning of deep learning architectures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Transparent deep learning classifiers of driving scenarios able to identify and learn from unseen situations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Research Associate, Eduardo Almeida Soares, was invited to give a seminar to the Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre in February 2022. The talk was "Transparent deep learning classifiers of driving scenarios able to identify and learn from unseen situations" and requests for follow-up information was requested by a number of attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Values and Visions: TAS-S and National Highways Workshop #2 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog further exploring more about our work with National Highways and the three case studies were are exploring as part of our collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://tas-security.lancs.ac.uk/national-highways-workshop-2/ |
| Description | Verification of Autonomous Systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Neeraj Sui was involved in a collaboration workshop with the TAS Verifiability Node on the 2nd March 2021 with a follow-up workshop on the 23rd November 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | What is Trust anyway? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Cross-disciplinary workshop facilitated in collaboration with Centre for Science Studies at Lancaster University on the 15th November 2022. 10 participants took part, sharing perspectives on what trust means in the context of technologies in society. Second workshop planned for March '23 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Workshop on risks and security assurance cases for use of drones in commercial airspace |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Neeraj Suri took part in an industry forum attended by around 50 people on the 19th May 2021. This focussed on the risks and security assurance cases for use of drones in commercial airspace. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |