Conference Program


Issues, strategies and innovations driving and shaping the development and deployment of ADAS and AV technologies

SUNRISE: the afety assurance framework for connected and automated mobility systems

Stefan de Vries
Project manager connected and automated vehicles
Applus Idiada
Spain
Safety assurance of cooperative, connected and automated mobility (CCAM) systems is a crucial factor for their successful adoption and deployment in society. But the wide variety of individual initiatives in this field tends to silo solutions and hamper the large-scale and safe introduction of CCAM systems in our society. It is for these reasons that the SUNRISE project has been initiated. Halfway through this project, a draft version of the safety assurance framework has recently been completed, on which international vehicle safety bodies and individual CCAM experts are now invited to provide their feedback.

Deploying a safe and trustworthy AV in different markets

Vivetha Natterjee
Autonomous vehicle safety specialist
CEVT
Sweden
Now that we have removed the human from the vehicle has the AV become safer in traffic? No. We have removed the human and not the human element. But wait, is removing the human the solution? No. In fact the opposite is true, more the merrier. In Vivetha's multi-pillared approach to continuously improve and deploy safe and trustworthy autonomous vehicles, 'inclusion is key'. Data, verification and personas need to be weighed equally. Humans in our different roles (as engineers, as drivers, as traffic inspectors etc.) are to be modelled using AI in order to understand and prove safety of AV.

Are ADAS functions ready for the real world?

Dalia Broggi
Project Manager
European Commission
Italy

Implementing operational design domain for real-world operation

Dr Andreas Richter
Engineering Program Manager - Operational Design Domains
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles
Germany
The concept of operational design domain (ODD) has been discussed in research and industry for a number of years but real-world applications beyond testing are not yet on the road. Regulations will demand a comprehensive ODD description for type approval as well as service area approval. Today’s ODD definitions are very generic and deliver only a few insights about the boundary conditions. This leads to additional efforts for explanation and showing (scenario-based) test results. Additionally, the argumentation of the completeness of the tests gets complicated. Having a technically precise but still human and machine-readable ODD definition could bridge this gap.

Leashing AI: On Challenges and Solutions in Autonomous Vehicle Safety Assurance

Ali Nouri
Senior system safety engineer in autonomous driving
Volvo Cars
Sweden
Safe behavior of autonomous vehicles needs to be assured before being deployed on public roads and maintained safely during the operation phase. This presentation will delve into the following key aspects: 1. Autonomous Vehicle Safety Assurance and SafetyOps approach 2. Challenges toward Rapid SafetyOps, exemplified by System Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) 3. Generative AI and Large Language Models as a Potential Solution

The UK's approach to connected and automated mobility (CAM)

Sumit Pandey
Head of Commercialisation
CCAV
UK

Standards, regulations, homologation and collaboration

Recommendation for a common understanding of ISO 26262 regarding autonomous vehicles

Tobias Traub
Functional safety expert
Bosch
Germany
Jonas Stuble
System Architect
Robert Bosch
Germany
Technical regulations and recommendations do not yet fully account for the safety-related availability of power supply systems. Specifically, the application of ISO 26262 on the power supply of autonomous vehicles is troublesome. Concurrently, engineers have gathered to write a recommendation (VDA 450) that facilitates the application of safe electrical power supply to other systems with safety-related availability like autonomous vehicles. This presentation highlights the framework of the VDA 450 recommendation and its principles that comply with ISO 26262 and are suitable to ensure safe power supply for autonomous vehicles.

Automated vehicles Level 1-2-3-4-5: overview of regulation/Euro NCAP status and testing challenges

Alain Piperno
Senior expert - autonomous vehicles testing and homologation
UTAC
France
UTAC is a worldwide reference in testing and type approval and an accredited lab for Euro NCAP tests and for type approval tests in France. The presentation will review today's regulation and testing capacities proposals and new challenges including Level 1-2-3-4-5 regulations status for M1 vehicles, shuttles, buses, delivery robots, SW/OTA, cybersecurity, AI and virtual type approval, and today's needs/solutions for testing and validation: physical, new protocols, new targets, rain and fog testing, digital and VIL testing, AI, V2X, cybersecurity, etc.

CAV in-use monitoring metrics development

Ching-Yi Chen
Technical consultant, Smart Mobility Living Lab
TRL
UK
The presentation will focus on developing comprehensive safety metrics for real-time monitoring of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). This monitoring ensures the operational safety of CAV systems and infrastructure in automated driving, remote operation and advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) use cases. These metrics align with international safety assurance frameworks and standards for global relevance. Emphasis will be on detailed assessment methodologies to evaluate vehicle system and infrastructure performance. This critical approach feeds into the validation and verification of CAV safety arguments, facilitating safe and secure deployment.

Germany's autonomous driving law – technical challenges and liability risks

Benjamin von Bodungen
Lawyer/partner
Bird & Bird LLP
Germany
Germany has recently adopted one of the most innovative legal frameworks on self-driving vehicles in the world. Yet the new law also requires compliance with extensive requirements regarding vehicle design that manufacturers, suppliers and the engineering community must be aware of. The presentation will place particular emphasis on these technical challenges. For instance, autonomous vehicles must be equipped with systems for mastering dilemma situations that prioritize the interests at stake in the event of an unavoidable accident. Manufacturers also have to ensure safety against cyberattacks throughout the entire vehicle lifecycle. Non-compliance bears significant risks of civil or even criminal liability.

Panel Discussion - Building an integrated toolchain for safe & confident deployment of autonomous vehicle and ADAS technologies

Ali Nouri
Senior system safety engineer in autonomous driving
Volvo Cars
Sweden
Phil Durston
Technical manager Volkswagen Vehicle Development: Proving grounds AD strategy
Volkswagen AG
Germany
Benjamin Engel
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
ASAM eV
Germany
Thomas Tentrup
Director of R&D
KÜS Bundesgeschäftsstelle
Germany
Karla Quintero
Research Engineer / Research & Technology Coordinator
IRT SystemX
France

Advances in software, AI, architecture and data management.

Ensuring vehicle software quality in an autonomous and V2X ecosystem

Nishant Khadria
Director
Deloitte
Germany
Modern vehicles are no less than 'smartphones on wheels'. The huge growth in in-vehicle functionalities demands increased and continuous connectivity while regulatory requirements mandate extensive testing and cybersecurity. The situation is intensified by ecosystem partners ranging from 'steel to software' and 'simulation to street'. As the cost ratio of software to whole vehicle rises, efficient 'software quality' becomes crucial to manage costs, win market share and achieve early compliance. The presentation proposes a process- and product-based software quality framework in an autonomous and V2X environment through qualitative measurement of customizable KPIs through assessments and tests.

Chasing milliseconds: how we optimized in-vehicle OS boot time

Dustin Black
Senior principal performance engineer
Red Hat
Germany
The presentation will take you on a technical journey through some of the challenges of adapting a general-purpose Linux OS to an embedded automotive use case with strict regulatory and safety requirements. Extra seconds of boot time are hardly noticeable or impactful for servers with hundreds of days of uptime, but for a platform rebooted many times in a day and that must provide user interaction in seconds from power on for safety reasons, suddenly every CPU cycle is under the microscope.

Scalable software development addressing different levels of autonomy

Georg Kuschk
Director of perception
Plus
USA
The presentation will cover common software architecture for different autonomy levels, how the development and deployment of products at different autonomy levels benefit each other, and examples and lessons learned from Plus’s deployments in Europe, the US and Australia.

Accelerate AV development with data-driven automotive AI

Frank Kraemer
Systems architect
IBM Germany
Germany
Developing AVs is a time-intensive and complex process that requires best-in-class data and AI training infrastructure. Companies developing software-defined vehicles need to accelerate time-to-market and minimize costs without sacrificing safety. Combining vehicle sensors, map data, telematics and navigation guidance using machine learning and data fusion techniques, data-driven development is not without its challenges. One of the biggest challenges is data collection and integrity, as data needs to be collected accurately and consistently to drive accurate decisions.

Journey toward software-defined connected and autonomous vehicles (SDCAV)

Plato Pathrose
CTO and technical director ADAS and automated driving
Vinfast Germany
Germany
The presentation will discuss the roadmap toward software-defined vehicles. What does a software-defined connected and autonomous vehicle look like and what are the requirements to design and deploy those vehicles? It will also cover the requirements and design considerations that are taken into account for vehicle architecture and various vehicle components. The change in approaches to the development, testing and production of the vehicles will be discussed. The drastic migration toward utilizing new technologies for the service and maintenance phase planned for such vehicles will be discussed.

SDV and vehicle motion management

Dirk Bangel
Chief expert
Robert Bosch
Germany
The presentation will show how vehicle motion management, a software system solution from Bosch for the complete vehicle motion domain, helps to drive the transformation toward software-defined mobility through multi-actuator control, a modular and scalable software architecture that simplifies the separation of hardware and software, centralized computing and standardized interfaces.

How generative AI will transform ADAS/AD

Gabriel Sallah
ADAS/AD Lead Architect
Microsoft
United Arab Emirates

How does the law on AI influence autonomous driving?

Jörg Kahler
Partner
GSK Stockmann
Germany

Panel Discussion - Safe AI for Automated Driving: Reality or Fiction?

The current hype around ChatGPT and Large Language Models (LLMs) has increased the focus on the need for regulating Artificial Intelligence (AI) (UK’s Global AI Safety Summit (Nov 2023) & US Govt’s Executive Order on AI). AI algorithms which are non-deterministic form a fundamental part of any Automated Driving System. Using non-deterministic algorithms in safety critical systems like Automated Driving require new approaches to safety argumentation & their regulation. This panel session will bring diverse AI approaches in AD development & diverse regulatory approaches to identify both the need and feasibility of regulation & developing safe AI.
Dr Siddartha Khastgir
Head of Verification & Validation, Intelligent Vehicles
WMG, University of Warwick
UK
Richard Damm
President
KBA
Germany
Dirk Gorissen
Product lead - AI Driver
Wayve
UK

TBC

Dan Cauchy
Executive Director
Automotive Grade Linux
USA

What’s ahead for ADAS computing?

Guilherme Marshall
Director, ADAS GTM
Arm
UK
Most computational capabilities that will power vehicles starting production in 4-5 years have already been designed in. For a fast-moving software function such as automated driving, this is massive challenge. Thus, in the absence of a crystal ball, Arm builds on close collaborations with leading automotive OEMs and suppliers to define next-generation compute platforms. This presentation will discuss their challenges and how upcoming technologies will help enable more efficient ADAS/AD software innovation.