Safety demonstration of autonomous vehicles: a review and future research questions

Tchoya Florence Koné (1, 2) , Eric Bonjour (2) , Eric Levrat (1) , Frédérique Mayer (2) , Stéphane Géronimi (3)

1 CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy
2 ERPI - Equipe de Recherche sur les Processus Innovatifs
3 PSA - PSA Peugeot - Citroën

The safety demonstration and validation of autonomous vehicles (AVs) remains a challenging activity. In this paper, we firstly review what those challenges are and how they affect the safety validation of the AV. Then, we particularly focus on the simulation-based validation process, which seems to be inevitable among the recommended safety validation approaches. We show what is actually done and required in terms of scenarios generation, their assessment taking into account uncertainty and the simulation architecture to test and validate them. Finally, we end our review by summarizing key research questions that need to be addressed to help with this safety validation issue.

Domaines: Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]

Tchoya Florence Koné, Eric Bonjour, Eric Levrat, Frédérique Mayer, Stéphane Géronimi. Safety demonstration of autonomous vehicles: a review and future research questions. 10th Complex Systems Design & Management, CSD&M 2019, Dec 2019, Paris, France. ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-34843-4_15⟩. ⟨hal-02427540⟩