(9) The AI MDP-based Uncertainty Reduction (AIMUR) Certification Tool

The Navy seeks certification and testing solutions for AI/ML approaches to increase trust, understanding, and reliability for use by the warfighter. Recent advancements for autonomous control offer the ability to scale to previously unsolvable problems. However, deploying these systems in real-world environments remains undesirable because there is no guarantee the system will behave correctly in all possible states and learned behavior is opaque to human understanding. Navatek proposes a novel certification approach to AI/ML techniques for autonomous vehicle control, leveraging dynamically constructed Markov-Decision-Processes, a mathematical framework for decision making which produces a policy and a value function. The policy describes the best action to take in each state, while the value function denotes a numeric score representing the likelihood of achieving the goal from each state.