UNIPI Team Leader: Federico Baronti Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'informazione

Automated driving is a disruptive technology which opens the door to future multi-billion markets providing business opportunities to value chains in automotive and semiconductor industry.The European industry has leading competitive strength in the development and manufacturing of highly reliable electro-mechanical systems. In order to preserve this capability Europe needs to setup European standards for high level control such as real-time computing or big data processing. In order to respond on the global challenge AutoDrive has gathered Europe’s leading semiconductor companies, suppliers, OEMs, and research institutes committed to create a pan-European eco-system, which has the critical mass to initiate standards and provides the components and subsystems for automated driving.

Currently, even the most sophisticated vehicle automation technology on the road is not able to surpass human driving capabilities – especially considering context awareness in any situation. Moreover, there is no common agreement on quantifiable dependability measures which hardware and embedded software have to achieve to allow safe automated driving for SAE Levels 3-5.

AutoDrive aims for the design of (i) fail-aware (self-diagnostics), (ii) fail-safe, (iii) fail-operational (HW and SW redundancy) electronic components and systems architecture that enable the introduction of automated driving in all car categories. AutoDrive results will significantly contribute to safer and more efficient mobility. It will raise end-user acceptance and comfort by supporting drivers in highly challenging situations (active safety) as well as in regular driving situations. Combining both will reduce the number of road fatalities especially in rural scenarios and under adverse weather conditions. AutoDrive will contribute to Europe’s Vision Zero and to improved efficiency. This will sustain Leadership and even grow the market position of all AutoDrive partners.

Coordinator
INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG Germany

Partecipants

• AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH Austria
• AYUNTAMIENTO DE MALAGA Spain
• AVL LIST GMBH Austriaù
• AVL SOFTWARE AND FUNCTIONS GMBH Germany
• CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT SCPA Italy
• COMLIGHT AS Norway
• DAIMLER AG Germany
• ELEKTRONIKAS UN DATORZINATNU INSTITUTS Latvia
• FEV EUROPE GMBH Germany
• FLANDERS MAKE VZW Belgium
• FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GMBH Germany
• FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV Germany
• FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION Spain
• GEORGII KOBOLD GMBH & CO. KG Germany
• HELIOX BV Netherlands
• IDEAS & MOTION SRL Italy
• INTERUNIVERSITAIR MICRO-ELECTRONICA CENTRUM Belgium
• INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCORPORATED Taiwan
• INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG Austria
• INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES DRESDEN GMBH Germany
• IRIZAR S COOP Spain
• JAC ITALY DESIGN CENTER SRL Italy
• Kompetenzzentrum - Das Virtuelle Fahrzeug, Forschungsgesellschaft mbH Austria
• KROMBERG & SCHUBERT GMBH & CO KG KABEL-AUTOMOBILTECHNIK Germany
• KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN Sweden
• LANGE RESEARCH AIRCRAFT GMBH Germany
• MAGNETI MARELLI S.P.A. Italy
• MICROELETRONICA MASER SL Spain
• MURATA ELECTRONICS OY Finland
• NXTECH AS Norway
• OKMETIC OYJ Finland
• ON SEMICONDUCTOR BELGIUM BVBA Belgium
• OSTBAYERISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULEAMBERG-WEIDEN Germany
• POLITECNICO DI MILANO Italy
• POLITECNICO DI TORINO Italy
• QRTECH AKTIEBOLAG Sweden
• ROBERT BOSCH GMBH Germany
• STIFTELSEN SINTEF Norway
• STMICROELECTRONICS SRL Italy
• TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DORTMUND Germany
• TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN Germany
• TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN Netherlands
• TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET GRAZ Austria
• Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy Finland
• TENNECO AUTOMOTIVE EUROPE BVBA Belgium
• TTTECH COMPUTERTECHNIK AG Austria
• UAB METIS BALTIC Lithuania
• UNIVERSIDAD DE ALCALA Spain
• UNIVERSITA DI PISA Italy
• VAERSTE AS Norway
• VDL ENABLING TRANSPORT SOLUTIONS BV Netherlands
• VILNIAUS GEDIMINO TECHNIKOS UNIVERSITETAS VIESOJI ISTAIGA Lithuania
• VI-GRADE SRL Italy
• VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V BRNE Czech Republic
• XENOMATIX Belgium
• ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG Germany
• Infineon Technologies Romania and CO. Societate in Comandita Simpla Romania

Start date 01/05/2017
End date 30/04/2020
Duration 36 months
Project cost 65.107.904,17 €
Project funding 16.250.000 €
UNIPI quota 86.681,29 €
Call title H2020-ECSEL-2016-2-IA-two-stage
Funding scheme ECSEL-IA - ECSEL Innovation Action
UNIPI role Partner

Project website https://autodrive2.automotive.oth-aw.de/