The goal of the European ECSEL-project AUTODRIVE was to advance fail-aware, fail-safe, and fail-operational electronic components, systems, and architectures for highly and fully automated driving.
AUTODRIVE results contributed significantly to make automated driving safer and more efficient. AUTODRIVE has gathered Europe’s leading semiconductor companies, car manufacturers, suppliers, and renowned Research Institutes to design the next generation safe ECS1 vehicle architecture.
The AUTODRIVE initiative addressed the following major challenges for highly and fully automated driving:
- vastly improved and multi-redundant computing power with unprecedented availability for the automotive domain,
- functionally safe ECS with predictive and adaptive power management on car and cooperative level to increase efficiency,
- low cost reliability,
- high speed and highly secure data communication architecture inside the car,
- secure real time Car2X communication,
- improved sensor data availability and quality,
- fastened virtual development and deployment,
- passenger behaviour anticipation,
- legislation and insurance implementation measures,
- standardisation,
- set of agreed validation scenarios to test vehicle and road safety.
AUTODRIVE led to a significant competitive advantage for the European industry by setting the standards and being market pioneers of the next generation Electronic Components and Systems architectures. This will sustain and grow the market position of all AUTODRIVE partners.
1Electronic Control Systems
Facts
- Project duration: May 2017 – Oct 2020
- Coordination: Infineon Technologies (DE)
- Budget: 65 M€
- Funding: 32 M€ (EU and national)
- Partner (i.a.):
- Industrie: AVL (AT), CRF (It) Infineon (AT, DE), Magneti Marelli (IT), TTTech (AT), Valeo (DE)
- KMU: Ideas & Motion SRL (IT), JAC-Itality Design Center SRL (IT), UAB Metis Baltic (LT)
- Forschung: Freie Univ. Brüssel (BE), Tecnalia (ES), TU Brno (CS), TU Dresden (DE), TU Graz (AT), TU Eindhoven (NL), TU Vilnius (LT), ViF (AT)
