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

From an idea to an implemented standard: making ODD come true

The concept of Operational Design Domain is generally accepted to be an essential part of development, testing and approval of Autonomous Driving Systems but still a new concept without real best practice. We show how the idea comes true by contributing to standardizing a human- and machine-readable technical description format, building a proper taxonomy taking requirements of relevant stakeholders into account as well as implementing software to develop and manage complex ODD definitions.