Introducing Distributed ODD Awareness

Date and Time: Wednesday, July 20: 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

ODD definition is key to the safety of Automated Driving System. An implicit requirement of defining the ODD, the need for the ADS to have real-time awareness about its current environment, the context of the ODD. This means that the ADS needs to monitor each ODD parameter or attribute to make a judgement if the ADS is inside or outside its designed ODD. This can be a challenge and also impractical for ADS using only onboard sensing. However, connectivity has a potential to play an enabling role in extending the ODD of the ADSs as well as provide the ability to monitor the ODD. To solve this, this talk introduces the concept of Distributed ODD Awareness (DOA) framework. DOA framework provides a mechanism whereby onboard sensing on the vehicle is complemented by off-board sensing and data repositories to create a real time awareness about the ODD conditions of the ADS. This can be achieved with the support of external infrastructure or sensors which monitor and measure the general ODD attributes and relay the information over the air (using connectivity solutions e.g. V2X) to the ADS, enabling it to make a judgement on whether the ADS is inside or outside its ODD. E

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 the 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 the 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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