Technical conditions for the use of autonomous systems: A general approach on an example

Modern efficient production methods and logistic processes require adapted distributed systems. These systems may be based on autonomously acting and self-sufficiently deciding networked objects. The use of such systems results in a significant higher level of complexity. Mastering this complexity requires methods of a systematical requirement engineering. As early as in the planning and requirement phase the aspects of safety and security engineering have also to be included. At the example of a container bridge the use of this consistent design methodology is shown in excerpts. This makes it possible to develop the conditions for distributed autonomous control systems.