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Automated Driving Enabled By Systems on Chip

Advancing fail-aware, fail-safe, and fail-operational electronic components, systems, and architectures for highly and fully automated driving to make future mobility safer, more efficient, affordable, and end-user acceptable.

Goal

The AutoDrive project, financed by ECSEL Joint Undertaking within the scope of the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme wants to make automated driving safer and more efficient and will thus contribute to Europe’s Vision Zero for effective road safety. It constitutes a key activity for the transition towards automated driving, enabling the next level of maturity and end-user acceptance. Flanders Make will perform research into fault-tolerant automated obstacle avoidance.

Flanders Make - Autodrive - Horizon 2020

Challenge

The mobility sector faces crucial societal challenges: reducing CO2-emissions, improving air quality, and eliminating congestion for improved logistics and traffic efficiency, while at the same time advancing towards an accident-free mobility scenario that also addresses the needs of vulnerable road users such as children or an ageing population.

The development and deployment of new capabilities provided by ECSEL (Electronic Components and Systems for European Leadership) is key to achieving this: ECSEL aims to fit out vehicles (e.g. cars, airplanes, vessels, trains, off-road vehicles, satellites, etc.) and transportation systems with the required intelligence by extending and reinforcing the well-established strengths of the European industry.

Activities

AutoDrive aims at the design of (i) fail-aware (self-diagnostics), (ii) fail-safe and (iii) fail-operational (HW and SW redundancy) electronic components, systems and architectures that enable the introduction of automated driving in all vehicle categories.

Flanders Make will be involved in the creation and validation of a fault-tolerant control system, particularly in connection with lateral control. We will mainly focus on the development of computing algorithms, which will be validated later on in the project using the Flanders Make demonstrator vehicle for autonomous technologies. 

“This project has received funding from the ECSEL Joint Undertaking under grant agreement No 737469. This Joint Undertaking receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program and from Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany , Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Spain and Sweden.”

Partnership

In order to respond to the global challenge of automated driving and to preserve Europe’s competitive strength, AutoDrive has gathered Europe’s leading semiconductor companies, suppliers, OEMs, and research institutes to create a pan-European eco-system that has the critical mass to initiate standards and provides components and subsystems. A total of 58 partners, including Flanders Make, will be involved in the project, representing a total budget of more than EUR 65 million to develop a wide range of technologies.

Autodrive - Partners

Contact

Contact Harold Perik - Project Manager Autonomous Systems - Flanders Make or visit the project's website for more information.