Auto[nom]Mobil

Welcome Talk

Highlight Market

Automated Driving - Why, How and When?

• Use cases in trucking and public transportation
• Further research
• Technological sovereignty

Autonomous Driving and Reality: It's Complicated.

• When will autonomous driving really arrive? The distorted public perception.
• What do customers primarily expect from automated driving?
• Phantom braking: The conflict of safety and annoyance.
• Working by the book: How even small deviations throw systems off track.
• Is vision really enough – how many sensors do we really need?

What Is Happening Out There? – ADAS Market, Technology and Product

• Global overview of the rapidly evolving Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) landscape
• Key features, innovative products, and emerging technologies
• Market trends, consumer preferences, and regulatory influences
• Insights into the current state and future trajectory of automotive safety and automation

Highlight Homologation and Compliance

Regulatory Requirements for the Homologation of Automated Driving Systems - Insights from the KBA

• A new framework for driver assistance systems at the UNECE
• Outline of current activities at the UNECE to regulate ADS
• AD Activities in Germany – The strategy of the Federal Government
• Status quo of L4 approvals in Germany

Life Cycle Compliance of AV

• Overcoming Regulatory Fragmentation: challenges posed by diverse regional regulatory systems that affect automated driving system safety
• Managing software updates for approved vehicles
• Enhancement of road safety by lifecycle safety of automated vehicles
• Recommendations for regulatory clarifications

Environment Perception

Future Sensing with Sensor Fusion

• Sensor challenges including upcoming R&R
• Active Safety Sensor overview & Performance
• How Early Fusion improves the overall performance

Unlocking Collective Awareness for ADAS

• V2X as a sensor: Enhancing perception beyond existing sensor limitations, and supporting real-time decision-making
• Challenges of trustworthiness and V2X technology fragmentation
• Integration considerations for Connected ADAS
• Opportunities for scalable, adaptive architectures to support safety relevant applications

System Stacks

From Deep Fusion of Radar and Video Perception to E2E Automated Driving

• Evolution of Autonomous Driving Systems
• E2E Autonomous Driving Systems
• Utilization of LLMs in E2E systems

Mixed Reality as a Next Generation Development Tool

• Description Mixed Reality as a development and validation method
• Pros and cons of the method
• BMW concept of a mixed reality vehicle
• Prospect of next steps and further research

Podium Discussion

Wrap Up Day 1

Test and Validation I

Statistical Validation of the BMW Personal Pilot L3

• Comprehensive safety framework that guided the development and regulatory approval of BMW's first SAE Level 3 Automated Driving System
• Integration of Systems Engineering, Risk Analysis, and advanced methods from Statistical Learning
• Systematic identification and quantification of uncertainties in hazard scenarios, ensuring a Positive Risk Balance
• Alignment with automotive standards, providing a rigorous and transparent safety assurance process for Automated Driving Systems

Continuous XiL Test Pipeline for the Validation of ADAS Software Updates

• Overview of various real and virtual test environments for ADAS
• The challenge of simulating a complete sensor set
• Generating and feeding synthetic sensor and bus data in real time
• Advantages of using continuous XiL simulation in practice

Test and Validation II

AI-Powered Auditing: Scaling Model and Data Validation with Intelligent Agents

• Challenges in validating data and AI models
• Multi-modal LLMs for automated auditing
• Capabilities, Limitations & Key tools

5 Years on the Road  -  Lessons Learned from Testing AD Systems

• Public road AD testing history- a recap
• Lessons learned from a multi project testing campaign of public road AD testing
• A non-OEM perspective on the challenges of approval for testing
• The importance of safety drivers
• Outlook and today’s boundary conditions

Highlight EU Perspective

How Competitive is the EU in Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility (CCAM)? Perspective of the European CCAM Public-Private Partnership

• Competitiveness of US, China and EU and their Automated Driving solutions – influencing factors, status and outlook
• Goals, structure, projects of the CCAM Partnership
• Targets and Elements of the EU “Industrial Action Plan”: Improvements in sight?
• Success factors and necessary changes in EU Research and Innovation to stay in the race

Homologation and Testing

Euro NCAP Strategy for Automated and Assisted Driving

How AI Influences the Validation and Homologation of ADAS and ADS from the Perspective of International Standardisation

• Role of AI in vehicle and process automation
• AI Assurance in context of mobility
• Key questions to be addressed by the international standardization community
• How to build trust through robustness and explainability

From Development to Production: How to Ensure Compliance and Type Approval of an Autonomous Eco-system

• Vision of autonomous on-demand mobility services
• Digitisation of the human driver
• Regulatory hurdles and challenges
• Way forward

Wrap Up and Fare Well