Pre-Engagement Scoping
Definition of the assessment boundary, identification of the autonomous system under evaluation, its deployment context, operational design domain, and the specific learned policies in scope.
Environmental Readiness Assessment
Evaluation of the physical deployment environment: workspace geometry, human traffic patterns, environmental variability, and the gap between training conditions and real-world operating conditions.
Robot System Assessment
Assessment of the hardware platform, sensor suite, actuation limits, and safety-rated monitored stop functions. Compliance verification against applicable machinery safety standards.
Learned Policy Assessment
ASDRA DifferentiatorThe ASDRA differentiator. Independent evaluation of learned control policies through adversarial reinforcement learning testing, conformal prediction bounds on behavioural uncertainty, sim-to-real transfer validation, and stochastic rollout simulation across the operational design domain. This phase quantifies the probability and severity of policy failure modes that traditional safety assessment cannot address.
Task Risk Profiling
Analysis of the specific tasks the system performs, their frequency, proximity to humans, consequence severity in failure, and the exposure base for actuarial modelling.
Operational & Human Factors Assessment
Evaluation of human-robot interaction protocols, operator training, override mechanisms, organisational safety culture, and the adequacy of incident response procedures.
Risk Quantification & Actuarial Output
Synthesis of all assessment phases into quantified risk parameters: failure rates, severity distributions, confidence intervals, and exposure bases formatted for actuarial consumption.
Certification Decision & Monitoring Specification
The formal certification decision, issuance of the ASDRA certification mark, and definition of the continuous monitoring specification that maintains certification validity.
Standards Alignment
The ASDRA assessment methodology is designed in alignment with the following international standards and frameworks: