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ADS Safety Measurement and Operational Design Domain

 

NIST is closely monitoring guidance from Federal, State, and local health authorities on the outbreak of COVID-19. To protect the health and safety of NIST employees and the American public they continue to serve, NIST has decided to make the ADS Safety Measurement and Operational Design Domain virtual only. For more information on COVID-19, please visit:  cdc.gov/covid19.
 

NIST will hold a workshop on Automated Driving System Safety Measurement and Operational Design Domain (ADS; SAE J3016) on July 7-8, 2020. The automotive industry is planning to deploy automated driving systems with most major manufacturers (OEMs) targeting the 2020s. Community consensus around reliable, broadly-acceptable performance metrics for assessing ADS safety can facilitate the successful achievement of these deployments. This workshop will explore, with the ADS community,  methods for analyzing the Operational Design Domain of an ADS-equipped vehicle into fundamental measurements.

 

ADS-ODD Technical Working Group

Would you like to be involved in the ADS-ODD Technical Working Group. The ADS-ODD Technical Working Group will meet virtually biweekly starting on April 22, 2020 and will discuss alternative taxonomies or frameworks for analyzing the Operation Design Domain of an ADS and write a technical brief in preparation for the July 7-8, 2020 workshop. If so, please email edward.griffor@nist.gov.

 

ADS-ODD Pre-Read Materials

RAND

Measuring Automated Vehicle Safety

Forging a Framework by Laura Fraade-Blanar, Marjory S. Blumenthal, James M. Anderson, Nidhi Kalra, https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2662.html#:~:text=No%20standard%20definition%20of%20safety,can%20include%20animals%20and%20property(link is external) 

 

Intel

Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS), Intel Mobileye, https://www.mobileye.com/responsibility-sensitive-safety/(link is external) 

 

University of Warwick

The Curious Case of Operational Design Domain: What it is and is not? by Siddartha Khastgir, https://medium.com/@siddkhastgir/the-curious-case-of-operational-design-domain-what-it-is-and-is-not-e0180b92a3ae(link is external) 

 

USDOT-NHTSA

AV 2.0 to AV 4.0 Activities, https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle-manufacturers/automated-driving-systems 

 

A Framework for Automated Driving System Testable Cases and Scenarios Overview, https://www.transportation.gov/av/research 

 

Voluntary Safety Self-Assessment (guidance, template and industry submissions), https://www.nhtsa.gov/automated-driving-systems/voluntary-safety-self-assessment 

 

SAE International

Taxonomy and Definitions for Terms Related to Driving Automation Systems for On-Road Motor Vehicles J3016_201806, https://www.sae.org/standards/content/j3016_201806/(link is external) 

 

AVSC Best Practice for Describing an Operational Design Domain: Conceptual Framework and Lexicon, https://www.sae.org/standards/content/avsc00002202004/(link is external)

 

Scenarios (Pegasus)

Pegasus Project, https://www.pegasusprojekt.de/en/home(link is external) 

 

“Defining and Substantiating the Terms Scene, Situation, and Scenario for Automated Driving,” by S. Ulbrich, T. Menzel, A. Reschka, F. Schuldt, and M. Maurer, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7313256(link is external) 

Created February 20, 2020, Updated July 6, 2020