Taxonomy to unify fault tolerance regimes for automotive systems: Defining fail-operational, fail-degraded, and fail-safe

T Stolte, S Ackermann, R Graubohm… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a taxonomy that allows defining the fault tolerance regimes fail-
operational, fail-degraded, and fail-safe in the context of automotive systems. Fault tolerance …

[HTML][HTML] Framework for connected and automated bus rapid transit with sectionalized speed guidance based on deep reinforcement learning: Field test in Sejong city

S Choi, D Lee, S Kim, S Tak - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Nowadays, Automated Vehicle (AV) technology is gaining attention as a candidate
to improve the efficiency of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems. However, there are still some …

The Safety Shell: An Architecture to Handle Functional Insufficiencies in Automated Driving

CAJ Hanselaar, E Silvas, A Terechko… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To enable highly automated vehicles where the driver is no longer a safety backup, the
vehicle must deal with various Functional Insufficiencies (FIs). Thus-far, there is no widely …

Ruling the operational boundaries: A survey on operational design domains of autonomous driving systems

MA Mehlhorn, A Richter, YAW Shardt - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2023 - Elsevier
Automated driving systems (ADS) have the potential to offer a safe and efficient future for
mobility. At the beginning of the design process of an ADS, the operational limits have to be …

Characterization and mitigation of insufficiencies in automated driving systems

Y Fu, J Seemann, C Hanselaar, T Beurskens… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Automated Driving (AD) systems have the potential to increase safety, comfort and energy
efficiency. Recently, major automotive companies have started testing and validating AD …

Safeguarding complex and learning-based automated driving functions via online verification

TN Stahl - 2022 - mediatum.ub.tum.de
When it comes to the verification of novel complex and learning automated driving functions,
existing standards reach their limits. In this thesis, a generic method for the online …

A formally verified fail-operational safety concept for automated driving

Y Fu, A Terechko, JF Groote, AK Saberi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.00892, 2020 - arxiv.org
Modern Automated Driving (AD) systems rely on safety measures to handle faults and to
bring vehicle to a safe state. To eradicate lethal road accidents, car manufacturers are …

[PDF][PDF] An exploration of methods for functional safety assessment of autonomous vehicles

LGWA Cleophas, A Forrai - pure.tue.nl
Autonomous vehicles have entered the phase of public road testing in recent years.
Assessing and ensuring the functional safety of autonomous vehicles is key for their safe …