About the Project
The ESPLANADE project targeted the complex question of showing that an autonomous road vehicle is safe. This problem is significantly different from safety argumentation for manually driven vehicles. Since the automated driving system (ADS) has complete control of the vehicle in autonomous mode, part of its function must be to drive safely. There are a number of methodological problems that need to be mastered in order to find out how to perform safety argumentation for the ADS. The scope of this project was to provide solutions to these problems. ESPLANADE is a successor to the project FUSE that ran from 2013 to 2016.
The project started on January 1st 2017 and concluded on March 31st 2020. It was partly financed by Vinnova through the FFI program, a partnership between the Swedish government and the automotive industry. Information can be found on ESPLANADE project page at Vinnova.
The ESPLANADE public report provides a summary of the results. More details can be found in the scientific publications.
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Academic Publications
| Title | Author(s) | Conference/Journal |
|---|---|---|
| A Strategy for Assessing Safe Use of Sensors in Autonomous Road Vehicles (Springer) (Download postprint) | Rolf Johansson, Samieh Alissa, Staffan Bengtsson, Carl Bergenhem, Olof Bridal, Anders Cassel, DeJiu Chen, Martin Gassilewski, Jonas Nilsson, Anders Sandberg, Thomas Söderqvist, Stig Ursing, Fredrik Warg, Anders Werneman | SAFECOMP 2017 |
| A Model-based Approach to Dynamic Self-Assessment for Automated Performance and Safety Awareness of Cyber-Physical Systems (Springer) (Download postprint) | DeJiu Chen, Zhonghai Lu | IMBSA 2017 |
| Introducing ASIL Inspired Dynamic Tactical Safety Decision Framework for Automated Vehicles (IEEE) (Download postprint) | Siddartha Khastgir, Anders Sandberg, Gunwant Dhadyalla, Håkan Sivencrona, Peter Billing, Stewart Birrell, Paul Jennings | ITSC 2017 |
| Safe Transitions Between a Driver and an Automated Driving System (Open access) | Rolf Johansson, Jonas Nilsson, Annika Larsson | International Journal of Advances in Systems and Measurement, vol 10, numbers 3-4, 2017 |
| Signal Feature Analysis for Dynamic Anomaly Detection of Components in Embedded Control Systems (Springer) | Xin Tao, DeJiu Chen, Juan Sagarduy | DepCoS 2018 |
| Design of a Knowledge-Base Strategy for Capability-Aware Treatment of Uncertainties of Automated Driving Systems (Springer) (Download postprint) | DeJiu Chen, Kenneth Östberg, Matthias Becker, Håkan Sivencrona, Fredrik Warg | WAISE 2018 |
| Enabling Tomorrow's Road Vehicles by Service-Oriented Platform Patterns (Open access) | Rolf Johansson, Rikard Andersson, Markus Dernevik | European Congress Embedded Software and Real-time Systems, ERTS2 2018 |
| A Business Model for selling components with safety certificates (Download preprint) | Carl Bergenhem, Daniel Skarin, Fabian Wenger, Rolf Johansson | The Safety-Critical Systems Club, Seminar: COTS, Legacy and Reuse - poster session, 2018 |
| Argument Patterns for Multi-Concern Assurance of Connected Automated Driving Systems (Open access) | Fredrik Warg, Martin Skoglund | The 4th International Workshop on Security and Dependability of Critical Embedded Real-Time Systems (CERTS 2019), July 2019. |
| Continuous Deployment for Dependable Systems with Continuous Assurance Cases (IEEE) (Download postprint) | Fredrik Warg, Hans Blom, Jonas Borg, Rolf Johansson | The 9th IEEE International Workshop on Software Certification (WoSoCer 2019), October 2019. |
| Safer Transitions of Responsibility for Highly Automated Driving: Designing HMI for Transitions with Functional Safety in Mind (Open access) | Matthew Sassman, Richard Wiik | The 10th European Congress on Embedded Real-Time Systems (ERTS 2020) |
| Towards an Operational Design Domain That Supports the Safety Argumentation of an Automated Driving System (Open access) | Magnus Gyllenhammar, Rolf Johansson, Fredrik Warg, DeJiu Chen, Hans-Martin Heyn, Martin Sanfridson, Jan Soderberg, Anders Thorsen, Stig Ursing | The 10th European Congress on Embedded Real-Time Systems (ERTS 2020) |
| Towards Safety Analysis of Interactions Between Human Users and Automated Driving Systems (Open access) | Fredrik Warg, Stig Ursing, Martin Kaalhus, Richard Wiik | The 10th European Congress on Embedded Real-Time Systems (ERTS 2020) - Winner of best paper award in category 'Human System Interactions' |
| Defining Fundamental Vehicle Actions for the Development of Automated Driving Systems (SAE) | Magnus Gyllenhammar, Carl Zandén | SAE World Congress Experience 2020 (WCX 2020) |
| On Perception Safety Requirements and Multi Sensor Systems for Automated Driving Systems (SAE) | Anders Cassel, Carl Bergenhem, Ole Martin Christensen, Hans-Martin Heyn, Susanna Leadersson-Olsson, Mario Majdandzic, Peng Sun, Anders Thorsén, Jörgen Tryggvesson | SAE World Congress Experience 2020 (WCX 2020), and SAE International Journal of Advances and Current Practices in Mobility (to appear) |
| The Quantitative Risk Norm - A Proposed Tailoring of HARA for ADS (IEEE) (Download postprint) | Fredrik Warg, Rolf Johansson, Martin Skoglund, Anders Thorsén, Mattias Brännström, Magnus Gyllenhammar, Martin Sanfridson | 2020 Workshop on safety and security of intelligent vehicles (SSIV 2020) |
| Concepts and Risk Analysis for a Cooperative and Automated Highway Vehicle System | Carl Bergenhem, Mario Majdandzic, Stig Ursing | 12th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems (SERENE 2020) (to appear) |
Presentations
| Title | Presenter | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Legal aspects and safety requirements for developing increasingly autonomous vehicles | Rolf Johansson | ISO 26262 Improving safety of advanced mobility Frankfurt, Germany, 2017-03-28 |
| Förarlösa bilar - Varför kan vi lita på dem? | Rolf Johansson | Vetenskapsfestivalen Göteborg, Sweden, 2017-05-10 |
| Safety Challenges for Self-driving Cars | Jonas Nilsson | Vehicle Electronics & Connected Services Göteborg, Sweden, 2017-05-10 |
| Case study: Autoliv's learning intelligent vehicle | Annika Larsson | IQPC HMI Cockpit EUROPE Düsseldorf, Germany, 2017-05-17 |
| Arguing Safe HMI for Automated Drive | Rolf Johansson | IQPC HMI Cockpit EUROPE Düsseldorf, Germany, 2017-05-17 |
| Developing a Common Safety Methodology for Autonomous Vehicles | Rolf Johansson | Systemite Summer Conference Göteborg, Sweden, 2017-06-15 |
| Next Generation Safety Systems: Coding for Morality | Rolf Johansson | Autonomous Vehicles Silicon Valley, February 2018 |
| ODD Patterns for Efficient Testing of AD Safety Requirements | Rolf Johansson | Testing ADAS & Self Driving CARS Düsseldorf, March 2018 |
| Operational Capability and Tactical Decisions vs SOTIF when going from ADAS to AD | Rolf Johansson | 8th Annual Conference Improving safety of advanced mobility Düsseldorf, March 2018 |
| Arguing Safe HMI for Automated Drive | Rolf Johansson | Vehicle Electronics & Connected Services (VECS) Gothenburg, April 2018 |
| Safety Argumentation for ADS | Rolf Johansson | EWICS-Workshop on Dependability of Autonomous Systems Munich, April 2018 |
| A Pattern for Enabling Continuous Development of Automated Vehicles | Rolf Johansson | International Safety Assessor meeting London, May 2018 |
| Agreements of an Automated Driving System | Martin Skoglund | SafeComp 2018 fast abstract session Västerås, Sweden, 2018-09-19 |
| A Pattern for Enabling Continuous Development of Automated Vehicles | Rolf Johansson | ETAS Connections Stuttgart, October 2018 |
| Sensor meta data to enable safe autonomous driving | Rolf Johansson | 4th Automotive Sensors & Electronics Summit Munich, February 2019 |
| Safety Arguing of Automated Driving Systems | Rolf Johansson | The SOTIF conference - Functional safety for highly automated & autonomous driving Munich March 2019 |
| Modular contract-based safety argumentation for reused applications and higher speed on the feature level safety case | Rolf Johansson | 9th annual International Conference ISO 26262 Munich, March 2019 |
Events
| Event | Time and Place |
|---|---|
| Joint Workshop ESPLANADE and SMILE projects | Göteborg, 2017-05-11 |
| Safety of Advanced CPS - SAFECOP & ESPLANADE Joint workshop | Stockholm, 2017-09-19 |
| Open workshop: Agile Friendly Ecosystem for Safety Assurance and Conformance | Göteborg, 2018-11-22 |
Contact Us
| Name | Partner Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Fredrik Warg (coordinator) | fredrik.warg@ri.se | RISE Research Institutes of Sweden |
| Murat Erdogan | murat.erdogan@veoneer.com | Veoneer |
| Ola Örsmark | ola.orsmark@comentor.se | Comentor |
| Anders Sandberg | anders.sandberg@aptiv.com | Aptiv |
| De-Jiu Chen | chen@md.kth.se | KTH Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan |
| Stig Ursing | stig.ursing@semcon.com | Semcon Sweden |
| Jan Söderberg | jan.soderberg@systemite.se | Systemite |
| Thomas Söderqvist | thomas.soderqvist@volvo.com | Volvo Group |
| Carl Bergenhem | carl.bergenhem@qamcom.se | Qamcom Research and Technology |
| Magnus Gyllenhammar | magnus.gyllenhammar@zenuity.com | Zenuity |
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