Understanding ODD: What it is and isn’t!ISO 34503 perspective

Date and Time: Monday, July 18: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Royal AB

Siddartha Khastgir

Head of Verification & Validation, Intelligent Vehicles, WMG, University of Warwick, UK
@siddkhastgir

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION

Presentation 1: Understanding ODD: What it is and isn’t! ISO 34503 perspective

ODD defiintion remains a fundamental step in the safety assurance process of Automated Driving Systems (ADSs). Various standards have been (or are being) created on requirements for an ODD definition. However, there still exists confusion/ misunderstanding on what an ODD is and how it differs from scenarios, behaviours, and other concepts. This talk will focus on removing this confusion and how ISO DIS 34503 (which provides a taxonomy for ODD definition and a definition format) addresses this challenge. This talk will also discuss how various standards on ODD definition can complement each other.



Presentation 2: ODD based Safety Assurance for Automated Driving Systems

This talk discusses a novel Operational Design Domain (ODD) based safety assurance framework while introducing a novel concept of ODD-based Rules of the Road. It will discuss the ODD-based Rules of the Road, as a way to enable the definition of “safe enough” for Automated Driving Systems (ADSs). The framework will enable test engineers, developers, regulators, and policymakers to seamlessly link ODD definition (which will be a pre-requisite for ADS safety), with test scenarios and corresponding “safe enough” metrics. As the framework is underpinned by ODD definition, it remains highly scalable as CAV deployment moves from constraint ODDs to relatively complex ODDs. Furthermore, we present a workflow for how the Safety Pool Scenario Database, the world’s largest public scenario database, can be used to enable the testing and certification process in a seamless manner, both as part of virtual verification and validation and real-world testing.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY

Siddartha Khastgir is the Head of Verification & Validation for Connected & Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) at WMG, University of Warwick. He leads several collaborative R&D projects with industrial and academic partners nationally and internationally. His research focuses on generating safety evidence and arguments, test scenario generation, simulation-based testing, and safety of AI systems. Leveraging the cross-domain nature of safety, he is also involved in safety research in aviation, marine and healthcare.

Siddartha is an active member of various national and international standardisation and regulatory groups, including ISO, SAE and ASAM. Currently, he represents the UK on several ISO technical committees and is the lead author for two new ISO standards for aspects of automated driving systems. He sits on the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) committees on safety of automated driving.

Prior to joining WMG, Siddartha was with FEV GmbH in Germany, leading automotive software development and testing for series production projects.
He has received numerous national and international awards for his research contributions, including the prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship in 2019 focused on safety evaluation of CAVs.

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