Development in electric, connected, and automated (ECA) vehicle driving technology leads to a paradigm shift in transportation systems, user experience, mode choices, and business models. Automated driving technology is progressing with advancements in electronic components and systems (ECS) and increased verification, validation, and testing requirements to provide increased safety and reliability.
To be accepted by drivers and other stakeholders, automated vehicles must be reliable and significantly safer than today's driving baseline. Consequently, there is a strong need for independent and reproducible validation of automated vehicles even though they have to deal with non-deterministic elements.
The vision of ArchitectECA2030 is to provide a harmonized pan-European validation framework enabling mission-oriented validation of ECS for electric, connected, and automated (ECA) SAE L3 to L5 vehicles to improve reliability, robustness, safety, and traceability.
The ArchitectECA2030 goals are to manage failure modes, uncertainties, and failure probabilities, propagating through the entire ECA vehicle stack consisting of on-board HW, on-board SW, off-board SW and data, development, and validation methodologies, to support hazard identification, risk analysis, and sufficient risk mitigation.
To develop a widely agreed homologation framework, comprised of harmonized methods, tools, and processes able to handle dynamic requirements (e.g. new scenarios, untested events, online traffic data etc.) provided by the in-vehicle monitoring device, to ultimately design safe, secure, and reliable ECA vehicle with a well-defined, quantified, and acceptable residual risk across all ECS levels. The residual risk relies on the failure risks of every single semiconductor, electronic component, subsystem, and system used to build ECA vehicles.
Propose, align, and develop a concept for an in-vehicle monitoring device, which can indicate and measure the health status and possible degradations of the functional electronics and electronic systems, enabling predictive diagnosis, maintenance and reconfiguration of embedded software.
Bring together the representative stakeholders from the ECS industry, standardization and certification bodies (Europe, US, Asia), governments, test field operators, and academia in tight interaction with the lighthouse initiative Mobility.E and its LIASE group to influence emerging standards, validation and homologation procedures for ECA vehicles and contributing to the emerging UL 4600 which is based on ISO 26262 and ISO/PAS 21448 (SOTIF).
