Sector
Robotics
- Perception
- Simulation
- Autonomy
Shared space with people, and a failure mode measured in physical contact.
Robotic systems operating near people inherit the hardest version of the coverage problem: the operational domain includes human behaviour, which is neither stationary nor adversarially bounded, and the consequence of a perception failure is immediate and physical.
The useful discipline here is the same one that applies elsewhere — declare the domain, weight it by real exposure, and be honest about which cells the evidence actually covers — but the domain is harder to declare and the exposure weights are harder to defend.
What this means for evidence
Effective sample size in continuous capture
Correlation-aware sufficiency: hours of continuous log data contribute far less independent information than the raw frame count implies, and the platform states the assumption alongside the figure.
ODD boundaries around human presence
Explicit declaration of where the system is claimed to operate, and explicit refusal to claim coverage outside it.
Runtime envelope as mitigation
Crediting architectural mitigations only where the coverage factor is evidenced — unevidenced coverage contributes nothing and is shown struck through with the reason.