Challenges of a safe adaptation architecture for vehicles: Presentation held at the 33rd International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (safeComp) 2014, International Workshop on Next Generation of System Assurance Approaches for Safety-Critical Systems (SASSUR), 9 September 2014, Firenze, Italy

The promising advent of fully electric vehicles and automated driving also means a shift towards fully electrical control of the existing and new vehicle functions. In particular, critical X-by-wire functions require sophisticated redundancy solutions. As a result, the overall Electric/Electronic (E/E) architecture of a vehicle is becoming even more complex and costly. The talk introduces the challenges of future vehicle software architectures. In the course of the SafeAdapt project novel architecture concepts are developed which base on adaptation to address the needs of a new E/E architecture for FEVs regarding safety, reliability and cost-efficiency. This will reduce the complexity of the system and the interactions by generic, system-wide fault and adaptation handling. It also enables extended reliability despite failures, improvements of active safety, and optimized resources