Auto[nom]Mobil

09:00

Welcome Talk

Highlight Market

09:30

Automated Driving - Why, How and When?

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

10:00

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?

10:30

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

11:00

Coffee Break

Highlight Homologation and Compliance

11:30

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

12:00

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

12:30

Lunch Break

Environment Perception

13:30

Future Sensing with Sensor Fusion

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

14:00

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

14:30

Coffee Break

System Stacks

15:00

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

• Modular E2E trained ADAS stack
• AI based early fusion/prediction/planning
• Temporal modelling

15:30

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

16:00

Podium Discussion

17:00

Wrap Up Day 1

18:30

Visit of "Klassikstadt"

19:00

Conference Dinner

Test and Validation I

09:00

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

09:30

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

10:00

Validation of Level 3 and 4 Functions: Challenges and Possible Solutions

• What are the biggest challenges in validating automated driving functions
• What data volume and test depth do we need?
• What methods and disciplines do we need to solve the validation problem?

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

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

11:30

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

12:00

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

12:30

Lunch Break

Homologation and Testing

13:45

Euro NCAP Strategy for Automated and Assisted Driving

14:15

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

14:45

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

15:15

Wrap Up and Fare Well