Project

A Functional Architecture for Autonomous Driving

As the Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) of self-driving vehicles increase, it is necessary to investigate the Electrical/Electronic(E/E) system architectures for autonomous driving, beyond proof-of-concept prototypes. Relevant patterns and anti-patterns

Defining Autonomous Functions Using Iterative Hazard Analysis and Requirements Refinement

Autonomous vehicles are predicted to have a large impact on the field of transportation and bring substantial benefits, but they present new challenges when it comes to ensuring safety. Today the standard ISO 26262:2011 treats each defined function, or

Systems engineering and architecting for autonomous driving

This chapter provides an overview of architecture and systems engineering for autonomous driving system, through a set of complementary perspectives. For practitioners, a short term perspective uses the state of the art to define a three layered functional

Disarming the Trolley Problem – Why Self-driving Cars do not Need to Choose Whom to Kill

Many claim that the "Trolley problem" is hindering the introduction of self-driving cars. Self-driving cars must, as all safety-critical products, be designed such that the probability of morally hard ("trolley") situations is acceptably low. In this paper

Safe Transitions of Responsibility in Highly Automated Driving

This thesis presents a method to assess the safety of transitions from automated to manual driving when vehicle automation fails. The method is based on contributions to the understanding of human driving behavior, also presented in this thesis. Interviews

The Need for an Environment Perception Block to Address all ASIL Levels Simultaneously

In order to perform safety assessment of vehicles for highly automated driving, it is critical that the vehicle can be proven to adapt its driving according to the sensed objects that might become a hinder. There is a complicated relation between the

Challenges in architecting fully automated driving; with an emphasis on heavy commercial vehicles

Fully automated vehicles will require new functionalities for perception, navigation and decision making – an
Autonomous Driving Intelligence (ADI). We consider architectural cases for such functionalities and investigate how they integrate with legacy

A Functional Brake Architecture for Autonomous Heavy Commercial Vehicles

Heavy commercial vehicles constitute the dominant form of inland freight transport. There is a strong interest in making such vehicles autonomous (self-driving), in order to improve safety and the economics of fleet operation. Autonomy concerns affect a

Efficient Identification of Safety Goals in the Automotive E/E Domain

This paper addresses the problem of how to identify all safety goals for an item in the automotive E/E domain. The paper gives a background on the problem of hazard analysis and risk assessment in general, and for the automotive domain in particular. A key

Reference Architectures for Highly Automated Driving

Highly automated driving systems promise increased road traffic safety, as well as positive impacts on sustainable transportation by means of increased traffic efficiency and environmental friendliness. The design and development of such systems require

The Importance of Active Choices in Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment.

According to the functional safety standard for road vehicles, ISO 26262, the list of safety goals shall be shown to be complete. Especially when considering highly automated driving, this may lead to the formulation of very general hazardous event. On the

How to Reach Complete Safety Requirement Refinement for Autonomous Vehicles

The introduction of highly automated driving and autonomous road vehicles will imply new functional safety challenges. The higher complexity and the partly implicit definition of the tasks for the E/E systems will make it harder to argue completeness and

A Functional Reference Architecture for Autonomous Driving

Context

As autonomous driving technology matures toward series production, it is necessary to take a deeper look at various aspects of electrical/electronic (E/E) architectures for autonomous driving.

Objective

This paper describes a functional

Architecture challenges for intelligent autonomous machines: An industrial perspective

Machines are displaying a trend of increasing autonomy. This has a far reaching impact on the architectures of the embedded systems within the machine. The impact needs to be clearly understood and the main obstacles to autonomy need to be identified. The