Visible to the public Automotive

This call for position papers invites you to submit a position paper for an NSF, NIST, and USCAR sponsored group on Developing Dependable and Secure Embedded Systems from Components. The goal of this group is to address emerging challenges relative to reliability, availability, safety, and security attributes of software-intensive electronic automotive control systems. An example of such a system would be a self-driving vehicle that must adapt in order to navigate safely and efficiently through traffic in the presence of intersections, pedestrians and other traffic. Another example would be an emergency vehicle with advanced engine and transmission controls integrated with stability control that is able to instantly respond to driver input and road conditions and keep the vehicle in the lane while traversing a curve in icy conditions.

 

 

 

 

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Visible to the public Design Automation Challenges in Automotive CPS

Submitted by Katie Dey on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 10:34am. Contributor:

In principle, best-effort technologies can be used for building each individual automotive cyber-physical system (CPS) from the ground-up, through careful design, testing, and verification. Each such undertaking, however, is technically challenging, error-prone, and expensive. Since many of these systems share common challenges, employ common design patterns, and verification principles, it is expected that generic software tools for automating design, testing, and verification can alleviate these challenges.

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Visible to the public Bridging Aero and Auto CPS: Secure Software and Data Distribution

Submitted by Katie Dey on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 10:31am. Contributors:

Transportation sectors are today faced with grand societal challenges of accommodating an unprecedented traffic increase, while improving travel safety, comfort and convenience, fuel efficiency, environmental benefit, and stakeholders business. Commonalities are emerging in the way aerospace and automotive sectors are responding to these grand challenges.

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Visible to the public Holistic Data-Driven Diagnosis for Dependable Automotive Systems

Submitted by Katie Dey on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 10:31am. Contributors:

Despite extensive design processes, emergent behavior will still appear at run-time in dependable automotive systems. Such behavior occurs due to unexpected or unidentifieded interactions and dependencies between system components. These interactions are unidentifieded due to a disconnect between various stages of the design process. A diagnostic advisor that synthesizes data from each stage of the product lifecycle provide a more accurate design-time characterization of the system, as well as more robust run-time operation.

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Visible to the public Closing the loop between traffic/pollution sensing and vehicle route control

Submitted by Katie Dey on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 10:31am. Contributors:

The Vision: Our planet has become more urban than rural in the last decade. Urban traffic has increased dramatically, making driving more stressful, costly, and unhealthy. According to the Texas Transportation Institute, the overall cost of metropolitan traffic congestion (in terms of wasted fuel and lost economic productivity) in the U.S. topped $87 billion in 2007, more than $750/year for every U.S. traveler.

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Visible to the public Towards Automotive Software Health Management (SHM)*

Submitted by Katie Dey on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 10:30am. Contributor:

Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM) covers frameworks for detecting, diagnosing, and mitigating faults in hardware and structures in aerospace systems. Software Health Management (SHM) applies the goals of IVHM to software-intensive systems to detect software faults in real-time and to mitigate them. In this position paper, we describe the needs and challenges of SHM in automotive systems.

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Visible to the public Safety & Architecture: Engineering Systems and Systems of Systems

Submitted by Katie Dey on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 10:26am. Contributors:

The two foci of this submission are: i. Component-based engineering versus architecture driven engineering ii. Safety and Functional Safety is a Requirement

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Visible to the public Occupant Protection and Rescue using Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems

Submitted by Katie Dey on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 10:11am. Contributors:

The current trend in the automotive industry is the expanded use of embedded electronics connected to physical sensors and actuators in an effort to increase the functionality, robustness, and safety of new vehicles. Automotive safety, in an effort to prevent crashes and to protect the occupants in emergency situations, provides an ideal application for emerging innovations in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS).

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Visible to the public HW Componentizing Kernel: A New Approach to address the Mega Complexity of Future Automotive CPS

Submitted by Katie Dey on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 10:09am. Contributors:

Automobile is an important application of CPS (Cyber Physical System). However, current software development process in the automotive industry is not adequate to solve the unique problems of CPS. This paper pinpoints the limitations of the current automotive software development process in the perspective of CPS and proposes a new kernel-based approach called HW componentizing kernel as a solution.

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Visible to the public Vertical Integration between Control and Communication Architectures

Submitted by Katie Dey on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 10:06am. Contributor:

Integration of various sub-systems has been one of the most time consuming and costly endeavor in the automotive domain. For example, in automotive industry the vehicle control system rely on system components manufactured by different vendors with their own software and hardware. What is needed is a new system science that enables the reliable and cost effective integration of independently developed system components.

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Visible to the public Addressing Design and Human Factors Challenges in Cyber-Transportation Systems

Submitted by Katie Dey on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 10:06am. Contributors:

Given the critical importance of due consideration of human factors in the design of new applications of Cyber-Transportation Systems (CTS), this position paper argues for the need for developing integrated human-in-the-loop Research, Development, Testing and Evaluation (RDT&E) facility. The paper then presents a proposed Integrated Traffic-Driving-Networking simulator which the authors are beginning to develop. This is followed by a brief description of a longer-term vision for an integrated testing facility for CTS under extreme events.