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Ethical and Social Aspects of Self-Driving Cars
As an envisaged future of transportation, self-driving cars are being
discussed from various perspectives, including social, economical, engineering,
computer science, design, and ethics. On the one hand, self-driving cars
present new engineering problems that are being gradually successfully solved.
On the other hand, social and ethical problems are typically being presented in
the form of an idealized unsolvable decision-making problem, the so-called
trolley problem, which is grossly misleading. We argue that an applied
engineering ethical approach for the development of new technology is what is
needed; the approach should be applied, meaning that it should focus on the
analysis of complex real-world engineering problems. Software plays a crucial
role for the control of self-driving cars; therefore, software engineering
solutions should seriously handle ethical and social considerations. In this
paper we take a closer look at the regulative instruments, standards, design,
and implementations of components, systems, and services and we present
practical social and ethical challenges that have to be met, as well as novel
expectations for software engineering.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures, 2 table
Automation within the automobile industry
Treball Final de Grau en Administració d'Empreses. Codi: AE1049. Curs 2018-2019Industry 4.0 entails a paradigm change and a challenge for economy and employment.
The advances of this industry generate major demands regarding the level of education
required in these jobs.
We have conducted a research in relation with the glaring improvements that new
technologies have brought since the First Industrial Revolution to this moment,
specifically, in the automotive industry.
This work includes three main sections. The first section explains the concept of
automation, its evolution through the different industrial revolutions, the factors that
have helped its development as well as the benefits and drawbacks that we may find.
At the end of the section, we mention the consequence of robotics on the employment.
The second section focuses on automotive industry, and analysis its evolution
throughout history, the several existing levels of automation along with the advantages
and disadvantages of these, as well as the way Industry 4.0 have promoted the
popularity within the sector of Smart Factories.
And finally, the third section judges the current relevance of the Autonomous Vehicle
(AV) which is already functioning as test projects in some countries, and every time,
there are more companies that are interested in investing in its development
Federated Robust Embedded Systems: Concepts and Challenges
The development within the area of embedded systems (ESs) is moving rapidly, not least due to falling costs of computation and communication equipment. It is believed that increased communication opportunities will lead to the future ESs no longer being parts of isolated products, but rather parts of larger communities or federations of ESs, within which information is exchanged for the benefit of all participants. This vision is asserted by a number of interrelated research topics, such as the internet of things, cyber-physical systems, systems of systems, and multi-agent systems. In this work, the focus is primarily on ESs, with their specific real-time and safety requirements.
While the vision of interconnected ESs is quite promising, it also brings great challenges to the development of future systems in an efficient, safe, and reliable way. In this work, a pre-study has been carried out in order to gain a better understanding about common concepts and challenges that naturally arise in federations of ESs. The work was organized around a series of workshops, with contributions from both academic participants and industrial partners with a strong experience in ES development.
During the workshops, a portfolio of possible ES federation scenarios was collected, and a number of application examples were discussed more thoroughly on different abstraction levels, starting from screening the nature of interactions on the federation level and proceeding down to the implementation details within each ES. These discussions led to a better understanding of what can be expected in the future federated ESs. In this report, the discussed applications are summarized, together with their characteristics, challenges, and necessary solution elements, providing a ground for the future research within the area of communicating ESs
A Cyberpunk 2077 perspective on the prediction and understanding of future technology
Science fiction and video games have long served as valuable tools for
envisioning and inspiring future technological advancements. This position
paper investigates the potential of Cyberpunk 2077, a popular science fiction
video game, to shed light on the future of technology, particularly in the
areas of artificial intelligence, edge computing, augmented humans, and
biotechnology. By analyzing the game's portrayal of these technologies and
their implications, we aim to understand the possibilities and challenges that
lie ahead. We discuss key themes such as neurolink and brain-computer
interfaces, multimodal recording systems, virtual and simulated reality,
digital representation of the physical world, augmented and AI-based home
appliances, smart clothing, and autonomous vehicles. The paper highlights the
importance of designing technologies that can coexist with existing preferences
and systems, considering the uneven adoption of new technologies. Through this
exploration, we emphasize the potential of science fiction and video games like
Cyberpunk 2077 as tools for guiding future technological advancements and
shaping public perception of emerging innovations.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figure
Internet of robotic things : converging sensing/actuating, hypoconnectivity, artificial intelligence and IoT Platforms
The Internet of Things (IoT) concept is evolving rapidly and influencing newdevelopments in various application domains, such as the Internet of MobileThings (IoMT), Autonomous Internet of Things (A-IoT), Autonomous Systemof Things (ASoT), Internet of Autonomous Things (IoAT), Internetof Things Clouds (IoT-C) and the Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) etc.that are progressing/advancing by using IoT technology. The IoT influencerepresents new development and deployment challenges in different areassuch as seamless platform integration, context based cognitive network integration,new mobile sensor/actuator network paradigms, things identification(addressing, naming in IoT) and dynamic things discoverability and manyothers. The IoRT represents new convergence challenges and their need to be addressed, in one side the programmability and the communication ofmultiple heterogeneous mobile/autonomous/robotic things for cooperating,their coordination, configuration, exchange of information, security, safetyand protection. Developments in IoT heterogeneous parallel processing/communication and dynamic systems based on parallelism and concurrencyrequire new ideas for integrating the intelligent “devices”, collaborativerobots (COBOTS), into IoT applications. Dynamic maintainability, selfhealing,self-repair of resources, changing resource state, (re-) configurationand context based IoT systems for service implementation and integrationwith IoT network service composition are of paramount importance whennew “cognitive devices” are becoming active participants in IoT applications.This chapter aims to be an overview of the IoRT concept, technologies,architectures and applications and to provide a comprehensive coverage offuture challenges, developments and applications
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