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With the rise of autonomous driving technology, concerns over the safety of AI-based systems have increased, particularly regarding their effect on human life and infrastructure. The complexity and unpredictable nature of AI-enabled software functions have disrupted traditional safety evaluation methods. In such a scenario, the quality control methods used at the manufacturing environments of sensors used for deploying AI-based perception functions need to be coupled with the downstream functions. This study focuses on investigating the impact of a specific production-related defect called blemish, which is caused by debris on image sensors of camera modules. The research aims to answer two fundamental questions: 1) How can blemish artifacts be mathematically modeled, and what is the process for developing a suitable dataset that incorporates this defect? 2) How can the influence of blemish artifacts on performance of object detection models be traced back to define quality requirements of the camera modules? This work takes a novel perspective by shifting the focus from improving model resilience to improving hardware quality camera modules by studying the effects of manufacturing defects on downstream functions. This research seeks to establish a framework to derive quality targets for front camera module manufacturing which can be extended to other sensors for similar applications.
Many resource allocation problems are hard to solve even with state-of-the-art constraint optimisation software upon reaching a certain scale. Our approach to deal with this increasing complexity is to employ a hierarchical “regio-central” mechanism. It requires two techniques: (1) the synthesis of several models of agents providing a certain resource into a centrally and efficiently solvable optimisation problem and (2) the creation of an abstracted version of this centralised model that reduces its complexity when passing it on to higher layers. We present algorithms to create such synthesised and abstracted models in a fully automated way and demonstrate empirically that the obtained solutions are comparable to central solutions but scale better in an example taken from energy management.
Resource-Intensive Software Ecosystems (RISE) can mainly be found in production management but also in virtually any socio-technical environment. RISE appear prominently in the form of smart grids or cloud environments where optimizing resource utilization and allocation becomes the most important aspect for competitive service provision. In such a context, the need for unified ontologies supported by adaptive software (i.e., software able to learn from and act on its environment) is highly attractive. Indeed, resources are mostly not monolithic entities but active and collaborative agents often organized in a hierarchical manner. A hierarchy implies multiple levels of abstraction leading to resource allocation on different levels of organization -- with abstractions being relevant for both inter- and intra-organization resource management. Once adequately defined, the use of constraint-based optimization algorithms on those multiple levels can provide efficient resource allocation. We apply, in this paper, ontological elements to model resources in a unified manner on multiple levels onto an example taken from distributed energy management. Then we present algorithmic ideas to organize the hierarchy of these resources.