Event

Welcome to a SAFER Thursday networking lunch and seminar! This week we will hear a presentation on the SUNRISE project, created within the SAFER platform and funded by the Horizon Europe Research and Innovation framework program.

SUNRISE - Safety assUraNce fRamework for connected, automated mobIlity SystEms 
Speaker: John-Fredrik Grönvall, Area Manager: Field Operational Tests/Naturalistic Driving Studies, SAFER

Safety assurance of Cooperative, connected, and automated mobility (CCAM) technologies is a crucial factor for their successful adoption in society, yet it remains to be a significant challenge. CCAM systems must prove to be reliable in every possible driving scenario, that is building a strong safety argumentation. It is already acknowledged that for higher levels of automation the validation of these systems by real test-driving would be infeasible by conventional methods. Thus, a carefully designed mixture of physical and virtual testing has emerged as a promising approach with the virtual part bearing more significant weight in this mixture (quality of coverage versus quantity of miles) for cost efficiency reasons. 

Evolving from the achievements obtained in HEADSTART and taking other initiatives as a baseline, it becomes necessary to move to the next level in the concrete specification and demonstration of a commonly accepted Safety Assurance Framework (SAF) for the safety validation of CCAM systems, including a broad portfolio of use cases and comprehensive test and validation tools. Following a common approach will be crucial for present and future activities regarding the testing and validation of CCAM systems, allowing to obtain standardized results, to improve analysis and comparability, hence maximizing the societal impact of the introduction of CCAM systems. SUNRISE aims to develop and provide a scalable, future-proof Safety Assurance Framework that fulfils the needs of different stakeholders. SUNRISE will also demonstrate the framework in a representative set of use cases to prove the robustness, repeatability and versatility of the methodology through a rich simulation kits portfolio. This will be done in co-operation with existing testing and validation sites in Europe (and worldwide), taking into account other industries and domains for harmonization and standardization purposes.
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