Moral autonomy in decision-making support from avionics analytics ontology

· Foundations for moral autonomy in command-guided self-governed aviation systems have been discussed. · An Avionics Analytics Ontology (AAO) endowed with moral rules for decision-making support in avionics analytics has been also presented. · The approach is aligned with a promising DSS solution for cutting-edge ATM/UTM systems which is the use of Ontologies for NextGen Avionics Systems (ONAS). · The main moral statement is “safeguard of human life must be always high-priority”, and it is related to the right and wrong behavior from the DSS itself and detected air vehicles. · The moral endowment ultimately enhances information fusion as to Situation Awareness (SAW) and situation assessment (SA). · Experimental results from a case study (Aviation incident of Flight IE110) have been presented to demonstrate the use of moral semantics.