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Aliman, N.M. (author), Kester, L.J.H.M. (author)In recent years, technological advancements in the AI and VR fields have increasingly often been paired with considerations on ethics and safety aimed at mitigating unintentional design failures. However, cybersecurity-oriented AI and VR safety research has emphasized the need to additionally appraise instantiations of intentional malice...conference paper 2022
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Aliman, N.M. (author), Kester, L.J.H.M. (author), Yampolskiy, R. (author)In the last years, artificial intelligence (AI) safety gained international recognition in the light of heterogeneous safety-critical and ethical issues that risk overshadowing the broad beneficial impacts of AI. In this context, the implementation of AI observatory endeavors represents one key research direction. This paper motivates the need...article 2021
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- Aliman, N.M. (author), Kester, L.J.H.M. (author) conference paper 2020
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Aliman, N.M. (author), Kester, L.J.H.M. (author), Werkhoven, P.J. (author), Ziesche, S. (author)In recent years, the need to address the multi-faceted issue of AI governance with safety-relevant, ethical and legal implications at an international level is becoming increasingly itical. Simultaneously, the international community is facing a wide array of global challenges for which the United Nations initiated an agenda with 17 ambitious...article 2020
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Aliman, N.M. (author), Elands, P.J.M. (author), Hürst, W. (author), Kester, L.J.H.M. (author), Thérrison, K.R. (author), Werkhoven, P.J. (author), Yampolskiy, R. (author), Ziesche, S. (author)The complex socio-technological debate underlying safetycritical and ethically relevant issues pertaining to AI development and deployment extends across heterogeneous research subfields and involves in part conflicting positions. In this context, it seems expedient to generate a minimalistic joint transdisciplinary basis disambiguating the...conference paper 2020
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Aliman, N. (author), Kester, L.J.H.M. (author), Werkhoven, P.J. (author)Steady progresses in the AI field create enriching possibilities for society while simultaneously posing new complex challenges of ethical, legal and safety-relevant nature. In order to achieve an efficient human-centered governance of artificial intelligent systems, it has been proposed to harness augmented utilitarianism (AU), a novel non...conference paper 2019
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Aliman, N. (author), Kester, L.J.H.M. (author)Due to significant technological advances leading to an expansion of the possible solution space of more or less autonomously operating artificial intelligent systems in real-world environments, society faces the challenge to specify the goals of these systems while jointly covering ethical conceptions and legal frameworks. In this paper, we...conference paper 2019
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- Aliman, N.M. (author), Kester, L.J.H.M. (author) conference paper 2019
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Bruggeman, J.C. (author), Blom, K.C.H. (author), van Elst, N. (author), Fitski, H.J. (author), de Jonge, J. (author), Kester, L.J.H.M. (author), Noordkamp, H.W. (author), Pond, T. (author), Jansen, E. (author)The future of manned submarines is currently in question as a result of rapid developments in autonomy in other fields (e.g. autonomous cars). Therefore, the feasibility of an unmanned submarine, basically a large unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV), as a replacement for a conventional diesel-electric submarine (SSK), was investigated....conference paper 2018
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van Willigen, W.H. (author), Kester, L.J.H.M. (author), van Nunen, E. (author), Haasdijk, E. (author)This article proposes a safety check extension to Adaptive Cruise Control systems where the critical headway time is estimated in real-time. This critical headway time estimate enables automated reaction to crisis circumstances such as when a preceding vehicle performs an emergency brake. We introduce a method for critical headway approximation...article 2015
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Kester, L.J.H.M. (author), Ditzel, M. (author)The trend in modern day observation systems is towards distributed (often mobile) systems that are able to automatically adapt themselves in dynamic situations. They have to make most of their resources to maximise the system's effectiveness, all at reasonable cost. Currently, there is no formal framework of reasoning to design and implement the...conference paper 2014
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Simonetto, A. (author), Kester, L.J.H.M. (author), Leus, G. (author)We devise a distributed asynchronous stochastic ǫgradient-based algorithm to enable a network of computing and communicating nodes to solve a constrained discrete-time time-varying stochastic convex optimization problem. Each node updates its own decision variable only once every discrete time step. Under some assumptions (among which, strong...conference paper 2014
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Sijs, J. (author), Kester, L.J.H.M. (author), Noack, B. (author)To reduce the amount of data transfer in networked systems measurements are usually taken only when an event occurs rather than periodically in time. However, a fundamental assessment on the response of estimation algorithms receiving event sampled measurements is not available. This research presents such an analysis when new measurements are...conference paper 2014
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van Seijen, H.H. (author), Whiteson, S. (author), Kester, L.J.H.M. (author)This article addresses reinforcement learning problems based on factored Markov decision processes (MDPs) in which the agent must choose among a set of candidate abstractions, each build up from a different combination of state components. We present and evaluate a new approach that can perform effective abstraction selection that is more...article 2014
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Kester, L.J.H.M. (author), van Willigen, W. (author), de Jongh, J.F.C.M. (author)This article proposes a safety check extension to Adaptive Cruise Control systems where the critical headway time is estimated in real-time. This critical headway time estimate enables automated reaction to crisis circumstances such as when a preceding vehicle performs an emergency brake. We discuss a method for critical headway approximation...conference paper 2014
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van Illigen, W. (author), Haasdijk, E. (author), Kester, L.J.H.M. (author)The research in this paper is inspired by a vision of intelligent vehicles that autonomously move along motorways: they join and leave trains of vehicles (platoons), overtake other vehicles, etc. We propose a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm based on NEAT and SPEA2 that evolves highlevel controllers for such intelligent vehicles. The...conference paper 2013
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van Willigen, W. (author), Haasdijk, E. (author), Kester, L.J.H.M. (author)The research in this paper is inspired by a vision of intelligent vehicles that autonomously move along motorways: they join and leave trains of vehicles (platoons), overtake other vehicles, etc. We propose a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm that evolves high-level controllers for such intelligent vehicles. The algorithm yields a set of...conference paper 2013
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Netten, B.D. (author), Kester, L.J.H.M. (author), Wedemeijer, H. (author), Passchier, I. (author), Driessen, B.J.F. (author)This paper presents the rationale and design of the DynaMap, a Local Dynamic Map (LDM) for infrastructure-based cooperative applications on Road side and Central ITS Stations. Most LDMs are developed primarily for use in cooperative vehicles. The requirements for infrastructure-based applications are different from vehicle-based applications...conference paper 2013
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van Willigen, W.H. (author), Haasdijk, E. (author), Kester, L.J.H.M. (author)The research in this paper is inspired by a vision of intelligent vehicles that autonomously move along motorways: they join and leave trains of vehicles (platoons), overtake other vehicles, etc. We propose a multi-objective algorithm based on NEAT and SPEA2 that evolves controllers for such intelligent vehicles. The algorithm yields a set of...conference paper 2013
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Fledderus, E.R (author), Kester, L.J.H.M. (author), van Kranenburg-Bruinsma, K. (author)The paper addresses intelligent sensor networks (ISNs) as a special version of networked wireless robotics. The success of these networks is partly explained by the technical advances, but as well by cutting down costs of these networks. Using a functional breakdown of intelligent ISNs, the trends of the various functions are discussed. The...article 2013