The preliminary conference program for ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle Technology Expo Europe (June 4, 5 and 6, 2024) has just been announced, with presentations from over 70 expert speakers representing organizations including Volvo, BMW, Stellantis, ASAM, Audi, Mercedes-Benz and many more.
Key highlights include a presentation from Dr Andreas Richter, engineering program manager – operational design domains at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, titled Implementing operational design domain for real-world operation. “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,” explained Richter. “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 augmentation of the completeness of the tests gets complicated. Having a technically precise but still human and machine-readable ODD definition could bridge this gap.”
Ali Nouri, senior system safety engineer in autonomous driving at Volvo Cars, will discuss Leashing AI: on challenges and solutions in autonomous vehicle safety assurance. “Safe behavior of autonomous vehicles needs to be ensured before being deployed on public roads, and then maintained safely during the operation phase,” said Nouri. “This presentation will delve into the following key aspects: autonomous vehicle safety assurance and safety operations approach; challenges toward rapid safety operations, exemplified by system theoretic process analysis (STPA); and generative AI and large language models (LLMs) as a potential solution.”
Georg Kuschk, director of perception at Plus, will present a paper titled Scalable software development addressing different levels of autonomy. 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. As a result, attendees will gain insights from Plus’s real-world autonomous driving technology deployments across the world, and learn about the importance of a data-driven approach in developing scalable and reliable autonomous driving systems.
Deploying a safe and trustworthy AV in different markets is the focus of the presentation from CEVT’s autonomous vehicle safety specialist, Vivetha Natterjee. In Natterjee’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. She will show how humans in their different roles (as engineers, as drivers, as traffic inspectors, etc) are to be modeled using AI to understand and prove the safety of AVs.
Carlo van Driesten, systems architect for virtual test and validation at BMW Group, will present Enabling virtual test and validation – self-sovereign identity via OIDC to enable decentralized open data markets. During his presentation, van Driesten will explore how to create an open and decentralized data ecosystem (ODDE) to increase the availability of standardized simulation data. He will also share the current state of the ODDE in the ENVITED (ENvironment for VIrtual TEst Drive) research cluster at the Automotive Solution Center for Simulation.
Nils Katzorke, project coordinator at Mercedes-Benz, will present Agile scenario alteration: a framework to accelerate automated vehicle testing. Having joined Mercedes-Benz in 2016 as a project coordinator for the construction and ramp-up of the new proving ground in Immendingen, Germany, Nils specializes in leading research projects on test infrastructure design for autonomous systems. An experienced presenter, he first spoke at the ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle Technology Expo conference in California in 2022, where he revealed the company’s approach to proving ground testing in the context of automated vehicles.
Dr Clara Marina Martinez, engineer for ADAS virtual development at Porsche Engineering Services, will present Rapid SW and HW prototyping for automated driving: sensor and function benchmarking using the JUPITER platform. She will explain how Porsche Engineering has accelerated the vehicle testing of its ADAS algorithms by means of its JUPITER vehicles, which provide a fully scalable rapid prototyping platform for ADAS for early close-to-series testing. The platform integrates state-of-the-art ADAS algorithms, is equipped with high-performance ASIL-D middleware and scalable data exchange, and is interoperable and real-time capable, according to Martinez, who will share a sensor benchmark use case as a teaser of the plethora of possibilities that the platform offers.
Plato Pathrose, CTO and technical director for ADAS and automated driving at Vinfast Germany, will present Journey toward software-defined connected and autonomous vehicles (SDCAV). During his presentation, Pathrose will discuss the roadmap toward software-defined vehicles. He will also cover the requirements and design considerations that are taken into account for vehicle architecture and various vehicle components, while highlighting necessary changes in approach. He will also emphasize the drastic migration toward using new technologies required for the service and maintenance phase for SDCAVs.
Overall, the conference will cover a broad spectrum of critical ADAS, safety and autonomous driving topics, including AI and deep learning, sensor fusion, virtual environments, safety verification and validation, new testing and development tools and technologies, real-world test and deployment case studies, and the latest standards and regulations. Dedicated panel discussions will allow attendees to ask questions and hear the latest intelligence from those at the forefront of ADAS and automated driving.
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