Towards a Physical AI Safety Certification Framework: A Synthesis and Proposal
- Author
- Mati Melchior · Independent Physical AI Safety Researcher
- Published
- 2026-05-06
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Spine for
- Book C
Abstract
The deployment of artificial intelligence in physical systems — robots, autonomous vehicles, surgical platforms, and other actuator-driven machines — has outpaced the safety standards meant to govern it. This paper synthesizes seven prior contributions into a proposed certification framework for Physical AI: the Physical AI Safety Certification Framework, or PAS-CF. The argument proceeds from convergence. Three factors point to the same gap. Regulatory pressure is the first: the EU Machinery Regulation, the EU AI Act, and parallel work in other jurisdictions. The second is technical: common-cause failure analysis in machine-learning-bearing safety channels. The third is…
Keywords Physical AI Safety · certification · IEC 61508 · ISO 13849 · ISO 13482 · ISO 10218
Cite as
Mati Melchior (2026). Towards a Physical AI Safety Certification Framework: A Synthesis and Proposal. Physical AI Safety Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20051041