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113 Creating features with the higher levels of au- tomation required (level 4 and above – high and full automation or rather autonomous driving) is still many times more complicat- ed. Especially in cities, e.g. safely negotiating a multi-lane town-centre junction, there are much more significant challenges that cannot yet be overcome reliably. New solutions are required if these kinds of highly complex, ultra-critical applications are to be implemented safely from a functional point of view. One promising approach in- volves removing certain tasks that a vehicle performs from the vehicle itself and either transferring them to an IT back-end or rep- licating them redundantly there. These in- clude elements of mapping and interpreting the digital picture of the world that requires a lot of computing power, processing large amounts of data, identifying alternative ac- tions in a driving strategy using AI methods, continuously adding to the number of sce- narios in the knowledge base (“continuous learning”), predicting the driving behaviour of other road users, verifying the plausibility of the vehicle’s own trajectory and, quite sim- ply, monitoring the vehicle and its route from another location. It is certainly no coincidence that the new market players listed above realised the ben- efit of IT solutions right from the start and are attempting to find ways of exploiting, for themselves, the associated flexibility in de- velopment, validation and the revolutionary transformation of the car as a complete sys- tem or, more generally, mobility concepts as a whole. This is putting huge pressure on mainstream OEMs, suppliers and engineering service pro- viders. Both technological approaches have their strengths and weaknesses – it is a ques- tion of combining the advantages brought by the world of IT (including processing large volumes of data, fast updates, use of AI meth- ods, “deep learning”) with those offered by ES (including close integration of hard- and software, high efficiency, compact algorithms, real-time capability) when considering future mobility solutions. The key technological requirement that this gives rise to is the ability to connect up sys- tems and sub-systems as part of the overall network. It is a question of highly secure, 100% reliable, high-bandwidth data connections. Only if this is guaranteed can functionally safe applications be mapped in a heterogeneous system environment comprising IT systems and ES. At the same time, data security must meet the highest standards, because, as the rule goes, “without security, there can be no safety”. With the arrival of the 5G mobile network standard, the stage is now set for highly se- cure, low-latency data connections (“trans- mission delay”, the time between an action or reaction being triggered and actually executed). Creating highly secure networks between the systems embedded in the vehi- cle and the appropriate IT backends will thus significantly boost the continued evolution of driver assistance and give rise to reliable, enhanced automation features and autono- mous driving. As far as the development processes are con- cerned, mastering the associated complexity, which represents yet another step up, is a huge challenge for vehicle manufacturers and de- velopment partners and one that can only be overcome confidently with powerful methods and tools as well as an in-depth understand- ing of both worlds. We are talking here about the overarching on-/off-board expertise in ES and IT systems and everything that goes along with them, such as designing system-of-sys- tems architecture, networks within the vehi- cle, between individual vehicles and between vehicles and infrastructure (Car2x), embedded system engineering, IT software development, model-based software development, automo- tive security and privacy, functional safety in accordance with ISO 26262, continuous inte- gration, software and data logistics, diagnos- tics, infotainment and, most importantly, using virtual methods for testing and protection and the multimodal integration of apps and mobile online services. Data analytics and AI are now firmly here to stay. n ESG Automotive www.esg.de/en/division/ esg-mobility/ Webseite ESG www.youtube.com/user/esggmbh Youtube ESG ELEKTRONIKSYSTEM- UND LOGISTIK-GMBH Livry-Gargan-Straße 6 82256 Fürstenfeldbruck eMail: marketing@esg.de Contact Dr. Hieronymus Fischer Head of Innovation Center Automotive Division Digital BusinessCard Company Profile ETAS GmbH Borsigstraße 14 70469 Stuttgart Germany Phone +49 711 3423-0 sales.de@etas.com www.etas.com ETAS GmbH ETAS provides innovative solutions for the development of embedded systems for the automotive industry and other sectors of the embedded industry. As a systems provider, ETAS supplies a multifaceted portfolio that covers the range from integrated tools and tool solutions to engineer- ing services, consulting, training, and support. ETAS participates actively in the standardization committees of AESAS, ASAM, AUTOSAR, FlexRay, ISO, JasPar, LIN, Nexus, OSEK, and SAE. Security solutions in the area of embedded systems are offered by the ETAS subsidiary ESCRYPT. ESCRYPT’s services range from expert consulting and IT security products right through to custom- er-specific implementations of entire solution packages for automotive and non-automotive applications. Established in 1994, ETAS GmbH is a 100-percent subsidiary of the Bosch Group, with international subsidiaries and sales offices in Europe, North and South America, and Asia. ETAS currently employs over 1.100 associates worldwide. Advertisement