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Towards a Taxonomy of Autonomous Systems

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In this paper, we present a precise and yet concise characterisation of autonomous systems. To the best of our knowledge, there is no similar work, which through a mathematical definition of terms provides a foundation for describing the systems of the future: autonomous software-intensive systems and their architectures. Such systems include robotic taxi as an example of 2D mobility, or even drone/UAV taxi, as an example in the field of 3D urban air mobility. The presented terms lead to a four-level taxonomy. We describe informally and formally the taxonomy levels and exemplarily compare them to the degrees of automation as previously proposed by the SAE J3016 automotive standard.

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  1. Research Institute AImotion Bavaria, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt, Germany

    Stefan Kugele

  2. Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich, Garching bei München, Germany

    Ana Petrovska

  3. Faculty of Science, Vrije University in Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Ilias Gerostathopoulos

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  1. Institute of Information Systems Engineering, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria

    Stefan Biffl

  2. University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

    Elena Navarro

  3. Department of Computer Science, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden

    Welf Löwe

  4. Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden

    Marjan Sirjani

  5. Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

    Raffaela Mirandola

  6. KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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Kugele, S., Petrovska, A., Gerostathopoulos, I. (2021). Towards a Taxonomy of Autonomous Systems. In: Biffl, S., Navarro, E., Löwe, W., Sirjani, M., Mirandola, R., Weyns, D. (eds) Software Architecture. ECSA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12857. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86044-8_3

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