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A Vision of Applied Ethics in Industrial Cyber-Physical Sytems

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Service Oriented, Holonic and Multi-agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future (SOHOMA 2021)

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Industrial cyber-physical systems integrate learning capacities and are intended to interact and cooperate with humans. These characteristics contribute to their complexity and harden their engineering process. More, their evolving knowledge increases the difficulty of their validation during research and development stages. In this paper, the difficulties encountered during the engineering of these systems are underlined. A specific focus is set on ethical considerations, which must be addressed along their design and use. We study more precisely the application of ethical paradigms and types in the context of industrial cyber-physical systems. An overview of the main approaches is proposed and a vision of what could be the concept of applied ethics in industrial cyber-physical systems is suggested. From that vision, a set of questionings regarding different stakeholders is constructed as an illustration. This proposal shows the diversity and the complexity of the ethical questions, which could help raising the awareness of researchers, designers and engineers working on industrial cyber-physical systems.

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Acknowledgements

Parts of the work presented in this paper are carried out in the context of the HUMANISM No ANR-17-CE10-0009 research program; the project “Droit des robots et autres avatars de l’humain”, IDEX “Université et Cité” of Strasbourg University.

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  1. LAMIH, CNRS, UMR 8201, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, F-59313, Valenciennes, France

    Damien Trentesaux

  2. UMR ICUBE, Université de Strasbourg, 3 rue de l’université Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

    Emmanuel Caillaud

  3. Alter Via Avocats, 7 rue de l Hôpital Militaire, 59800, Lille, France

    Raphaël Rault

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  1. Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

    Theodor Borangiu

  2. LAMIH UMR CNRS 8201, Polytechnic University Hauts de France, Valenciennes, France

    Damien Trentesaux

  3. Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança, Portugal

    Paulo Leitão

  4. LS2N, UMR CNRS 6004, IUT de Nantes, University of Nantes, Carquefou, France

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  5. Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology LISPEN, HESAM Université UBFC, Cluny, France

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Trentesaux, D., Caillaud, E., Rault, R. (2022). A Vision of Applied Ethics in Industrial Cyber-Physical Sytems. In: Borangiu, T., Trentesaux, D., Leitão, P., Cardin, O., Joblot, L. (eds) Service Oriented, Holonic and Multi-agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future. SOHOMA 2021. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1034. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99108-1_23

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