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The SAFER Thursday seminar series continues on the topic of safety assurance. SAFER’s competence network leader Fredrik Sandblom is hosting this session with the objective to present where we currently stand in our research on safety assurance; validation and verification of autonomous vehicles. We will in this session present two of our ongoing projects; HEADSTART and VALU3S, both focusing on these research challenges.
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The HEADSTART project – harmonised methods for testing CAVs

Speakers: Anders Thorsén, Ph.D, Senior Researcher & Martin Skoglund, Senior Researcher, RISE

The HEADSTART (Harmonised European Solutions for Testing Automated Road Transport) project is an EU funded project that started Jan 1, 2019 and is now running its final year. The project consists of 17 partners including SAFER JRU. It aims to define testing and validation procedures of Connected and Automated Driving functions including key technologies such as communications, cyber-security and positioning. The tests will be in both simulation and real-world fields to validate safety and security performance according to the key users’ needs. Part of the project is to cooperate with other European and national CAD stakeholders to cluster the most relevant existing initiatives, develop methodologies, procedures and tools and drive in a harmonized European solution for testing and validation of automated road vehicles. The project has got much attention in the European community and is, e.g., referred to in the Horizon Europe Pillar 2, Cluster 5 CCAM call “C5-D6-CCAM-04-2021 Common approaches for the safety validation of CCAM systems”.
 
The presentation will give an overview of the HEADSTART project, describe SAFERs involvement and present the status as of today.

On the use of fault and attack injection to evaluate system safety and cybersecurity

Speaker: Behrooz Sangchoolie, Ph.D, Senior Researcher, RISE

Manufacturers of automated systems have been allocating an enormous amount of time developing and conducting research on automated systems. A major part of the time spent is dedicated to ensuring that the systems function according to specifications and requirements defined. This is especially the case for safety-critical systems as violation of requirements such as safety and cybersecurity in these systems could be catastrophic. These systems should go through thorough verification and validation (V&V) processes before they are used by end-users. Fault and attack injection are well-known testing techniques used in different V&V processes. 

This presentation focuses on two of these techniques, namely, model-implemented and simulation-based fault and attack injection in the context of an ECSEL Joint Undertaking project called VALU3S. As thorough evaluation of systems using fault and attack injection could be time-consuming, the presentation will also include concrete recommendations on ways to reduce the evaluation time.

Welcome!

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This seminar is only open for SAFER partners. Missing your invitation? Please contact Mikael von Redlich.