Hazards in advising autonomy: A structured approach seeking novelty in developing the requirements for an exemplar

This paper describes the first phase of a research project to identify and initiate the development, or improvement, of tools that are relevant to identifying and managing hazards likely to arise with automatic advice (e.g. system health advice, plus others) within airborne autonomous systems. In this first phase a rigorous approach has been attempted in the development of the systems requirements in the recognition that at least three systems of interest are present in the system of systems space - the airborne systems´ regulatory environment, the airborne systems of interest, and the proposed hazard identification and assessment toolbox itself. The approach presented here describes an effective treatment of a literature survey as a textually based requirements analysis process. The textual analysis and a phased Quality Function Deployment (QFD) process are described with a worked example, and placed into context of the (civil) airborne certification and regulatory environment.