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DAY 1: VW, Volvo, Plus, Bosch and the European Commission share insight into latest issues, strategies and innovations
ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle Conference
The ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle Technology Expo Conference has opened in Stuttgart, Germany, with OEMs, tech companies, suppliers and regulators discussing the latest issues, strategies and innovations shaping the development and deployment of ADAS and AV technologies, as well as standards and regulations, and advances in software, AI, architecture and data management.
In Room 1, the focus is on issues, strategies and innovations. Dr Andreas Richter, engineering program manager for operational design domains at VW, gave a presentation on how to implement a technically precise but still human- and machine-readable operational design domain for real-world operation. Then Ali Nouri, senior system safety engineer in autonomous driving at Volvo, explored the challenges and solutions related to leashing AI in autonomous vehicle safety assurance.
Dalia Broggi from the European Commission provided a regulatory compliance perspective, discussing whether ADAS functions are ready for the real world. Dalia compared type approval tests with real-world assessments by the Joint Research Centre, revealing ADAS/AV limitations. “Market surveillance should be an additional resource to deal with challenges arising, to ensure the safety of vehicles equipped with software-based systems,” she told ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International after her presentation. Dalia is a project manager at the European Commission JRC, dealing with vehicle safety for traditional and innovative systems such as ADAS. “Speaking at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle Technology Expo will help in spreading our market surveillance work as it did in another context such as the Tire Technology Expo,” she said.
The afternoon discussions in Room 1 will cover standards, regulations, homologation and collaboration, including a presentation from Bosch on recommendations for a common understanding of ISO 26262. The day will close with a panel discussion on building an integrated toolchain for safe and confident deployment of autonomous vehicle and ADAS technologies, with contributions from VW, Volvo, Kus, ASAM, Automotive Solution Center for Simulation and IRT SystemX. Phil Durston, technical manager for VW vehicle development: proving grounds and AD strategy, said, “It’s great to be back at the ADAS conference, in the heart of the expo. I’m looking forward to the inspirational, informative and innovative days ahead.”
Meanwhile, in Room 2 the focus is on advances and issues in software, AI, architecture and data management. This morning, Dustin Black, senior principal performance engineer at Red Hat, described how the company ‘chased milliseconds’ and optimized in-vehicle OS boot time.
Following Dustin’s presentation, Plus’s director of perception, Georg Kuschk, explored scalable software development addressing different levels of autonomy.
Gabriel Sallah, Microsoft’s ADAS/AD lead architect, delved into how generative AI will transform ADAS/AD and explained how OEMs and Tier 1s are using large language models to build, test and develop perception models more quickly.
A special afternoon panel discussion on safe AI for automated driving will be a highlight of the first day, featuring diverse regulatory approaches to identify the need for and feasibility of regulation and developing safe AI. Panelists will include representatives from the University of Warwick, Nvidia, Wayve, KBA and Infineon.