Future research needs to assure the safety of CAVs: a point of view - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

• Prof. Tony Pipe – Bristol Robotics Laboratory (Tony.Pipe@brl.ac.uk)

Future research needs to assure the safety of CAVs:

a point of view from the field of robotics and autonomous systems

https://www.bristolroboticslab.com/

Autonomous Vehicle Projects in the West of England

Started in July 2015 and June 2016 respectively:

• User acceptance and impact on insurability and legality
• The needs of older adults as users, system

deployment and data security Started in late 2017 or 2018:

• MultiCAV: Transport system implications and passenger experiences of a multimodal autonomous mobility
• system. Electric, fully-autonomous on-demand shuttle vehicles, electric buses and taxis, alongside conventional

vehicles in a 'Mobility as a Service' (MaaS) platform

• CAPRI:A market ready, mobility service using trusted secure PODs and systems supported with legal, regulatory,

insurance recommendations.

• ROBOPILOT: Autonomous driving for electric Light Commercial Vehicles (LCV). Integrated vehicle, fleet and

depot delivery management system. Full assessment of vehicle safety, evaluation and hardening of cyber-physical security Started Spring 2019:

• CAV-Forth: Autonomise the UK’s most popular full size single deck bus. Create a high capacity AV Bus Pilot
• Service. Utilise a route across the Forth Bridge UNESCO World Heritage location. Optimise the safety and quality of

the service with respect to consumer needs

’Flavour’ of these cross-disciplinary projects has evolved over 5 years from investigations into user acceptability

• f individual CAVs

to safety assurances for the technology interacting with complex environmental systems

Autonomous Vehicles we have utilised … or will

Simulation will be important …

How do we assure Autonomous Vehicle Safety?

• M. Webster, D. Western, D. Araiza-Illan, C. Dixon, K. Eder, M. Fisher and A. G. Pipe (2018). A

Corroborative Approach to Verification and Validation of Human-Robot Teams. https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.07403

• Simulation has many benefits over

real-world testing

– Safely cause dangerous situations – Parallel test runs save time – Full control over environment state – More cost effective

• Verification goals include:

– Rules of the Highway Code – Social conventions – Coverage, including code and functional/scenario

• However, there are weaknesses of

course, real-world testing is necessary!

Other Challenges and Comments

• The sensor-perception pipeline is a significant challenge
• Simulation approaches need to be developed further

and standards activities will be crucial

• Standards and legislation need to proceed rapidly
• SAE autonomy table needs to be enhanced, especially in

the light of emerging application domains

Tony.Pipe@brl.ac.uk

https://www.brl.ac.uk www.bristol.ac.uk/tsl

https://www.venturer-cars.com/ http://www.flourishmobility.com/ http://caprimobility.com/ https://arrival.com/ (ROBOPILOT project)