Date and Time: Monday, July 10, 2023: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Simon Fuerst
Cooperation Manager Automated Driving, BMW of North America
Presentation Description
The presentation gives an overview on standardization activities for automated driving at ISO and the related focus at VDA. ISO TS 5083 is presented as most recent example. Links to regulation and other consortia are shown.
Speaker Biography
Simon Fürst studied Aerospace Engineering at the Technical University of Munich. From 1993 till 2001 he was a at the institute of System Dynamics and Flight Mechanics at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich. His research area was on onboard autonomous, vision based systems for navigation and landing of airplanes and helicopters. Since mid 2003 he is with BMW. From 2005 till March 2009 he was a member of the software group of the VDA NAA AA-I3 AK16 and a software expert in ISO TC22 SC3 WG16 working on ISO 26262, the functional safety standard for the automotive domain. During that time he was international project leader for some of the chapters of ISO 26262. In 2006 Fürst became BMW Project Leader for AUTOSAR. In 2008 he switched to the AUTOSAR Steering Committee. In 2009/2010 and 2015/2016 he was AUTOSAR Spokesperson. Till March 2017 he was general manager for software development and software infrastructure being responsible for the AUTOSAR series roll-out at BMW. In April 2017 he became general manager for machine learning, reasoning and knowledge representation focusing on highly automated and autonomous driving. From October 2017 on the devision responsible for automated driving and driver assistant systems adapted its organization to agile principles. From December 2020 till December 2022 he was convener of the newly started ISO TC22/SC32/WG13 "Safety for driving automated systems". Since May 2022 he is cooperation manager for automated driving at BMW.
