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Funded PhD opportunity: Safety of AI for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming more widely used and our industrial partner, QinetiQ, are entrusted with responsibility for assuring UAVs before they enter service. This project is intended to find practicable ways of assuring autonomy, especially the AI components of UAVs, bridging between the principles and frameworks for assuring AI and autonomy already developed in York, and the requirements of airworthiness certification. In this funded PhD studentship we're looking for someone who:

• Can specify design methodologies for AI/ML that underpin reliable & consistent evidencing of behaviour to support assurance arguments?
• Can develop techniques that support evidencing AI/ML to a range of assurance levels (analogous to how DO178 levels A to E support corresponding DAL levels)?
• Can develop techniques for continuous and through-life assurance (the assurance activity continues beyond the development and delivery of a system) to support rapid deployment and updates of UAVs?

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