Andreas Richter

Andreas started his career at German Aerospace Center in 2007 as computer scientist with focus on geodata processing for driving simulators and test vehicles. Later, he led the corresponding teams and managed various industry and EU research projects while contributing to the development of OpenDRIVE as well as to Road2Simulation guidelines. He received his PhD on integrated use of geodatabases. Since 2018 he worked at Volkswagen Group IT as Product Owner on backend integration for Volkswagen’s electric vehicle platform. Since 2021, he works as Engineering Program Manager for Operational Design Domain for Self-Driving Systems at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles.

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Presentation

Specifying an ODD

Participants will learn how to specify the ODD in a machine readable and human interpretable fashion. Together, we will learn how to analyse the real-world conditions and how to exclude unsuitable ones. We will modularise the specification to enable assembling a single joint specification from components provided by numerous teams and experts. We will understand which use-cases and data are required to support ODD evaluation, including discussion of the various technologies and data sources involved. Finally, we will understand how to utilize these definitions in simulation toolchains to determine the impact of specific capabilities. This workshop will be presented by Andreas Richter of VW Commerical Vehicles, supported by a team of experts: Iskra Gasparic and Florian Klück from AVL, Omar Elzeiny and Xavier Rouah from dSPACE, and Ulrich Korus and Max Winkelmann from Applied Intuition.