Jan Reich

Jan has led the safety engineering department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE since 2024. The department deals with systematic assurance, validation and safety monitoring methods to enable the safe market entry of innovative systems. The focus is on autonomous systems (of systems) that are operated in complex operational environments and include technological innovations such as machine learning. In his previous role as expert scientist, he was responsible for dynamic assurances for connected autonomous systems at the institute. In the German lighthouse project PEGASUS Verification and Validation Methods (VVM) of the VDA flagship initiative Automated Connected Driving, he coordinated the creation of a safety argumentation framework for the approval of highly automated driving systems.

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Presentation

Digital safety certification – how to manage approval complexity through digitalization and AI-enabled automation

Many companies in the ADS landscape see the complexity of regulations and standards as a major hurdle to efficiently create value in B2C and B2B contexts. While the ADS systems themselves are becoming more and more intelligent, the safety certification staff’s toolset does not leverage the power of connected information graphs and AI-enabled automation for creation and processing. This talk will introduce the major building blocks required to achieve digital continuous ADS safety certification and will give insights from many years of applied research to explain what the digital ADS safety certification ecosystem of the future could look like. Specifically, the relationship between approval and liability context, risk-based safety cases, the safety engineering work products as well as post-deployment safety monitoring will be analyzed in the context of digitalization needs and potential.