Paper ID: 2207.05643

SafeDrones: Real-Time Reliability Evaluation of UAVs using Executable Digital Dependable Identities

Koorosh Aslansefat, Panagiota Nikolaou, Martin Walker, Mohammed Naveed Akram, Ioannis Sorokos, Jan Reich, Panayiotis Kolios, Maria K. Michael, Theocharis Theocharides, Georgios Ellinas, Daniel Schneider, Yiannis Papadopoulos

The use of Unmanned Arial Vehicles (UAVs) offers many advantages across a variety of applications. However, safety assurance is a key barrier to widespread usage, especially given the unpredictable operational and environmental factors experienced by UAVs, which are hard to capture solely at design-time. This paper proposes a new reliability modeling approach called SafeDrones to help address this issue by enabling runtime reliability and risk assessment of UAVs. It is a prototype instantiation of the Executable Digital Dependable Identity (EDDI) concept, which aims to create a model-based solution for real-time, data-driven dependability assurance for multi-robot systems. By providing real-time reliability estimates, SafeDrones allows UAVs to update their missions accordingly in an adaptive manner.

Submitted: Jul 12, 2022