OEM&Lieferant Ausgabe 2/2018 / OEM&Supplier Edition 2/2018

133 ESG www.youtube.com/user/esggmbh Youtube omous driving) is a much more complex under- taking. This is particularly the case in urban en- vironments, e.g. navigating a vehicle safely over a multi-lane city intersection. The tasks involved are vastly more intricate, and systems that can deal with them safely and reliably have yet to be developed. We need new solutions with the functionality to handle such highly complex and extremely critical scenarios. One promising approach is to take some of those functions out of the actual vehicle and “off-board” them to an IT back-end or to redundant systems. This method could be applied, for example, to: the task of modelling and interpreting a digital reproduction of real- ity which consumes a great deal of computing power; large-volume data processing; the use of AI (artificial intelligence) to select appropri- ate actions as part of the vehicle’s driving strat- egy; ongoing expansion of the system’s knowl- edge base whenever it deals with a new scenario (continuous learning); predictions of how other road users will behave; plausibility checking of the vehicle’s trajectory; or simply monitoring the vehicle and the route from another location. It is certainly no coincidence that the new mar- ket players referred to above recognised the potential benefits of IT solutions from the start and are now striving to harness them for their own purposes – especially the flexibility they offer in terms of development, validation, and the scope for making revolutionary changes to the entire vehicle design and wider concepts of mobility. Against this backdrop, established OEMs, sup- pliers and the engineering firms that serve the industry are facing a huge amount of pressure. Both technological approaches have their strengths and weaknesses. Future mobility sol- utions will need to combine the advantages of IT-based systems (e.g. big data processing, fast updates, artificial intelligence and deep learn- ing) with those of ES (e.g. dovetailed hardware and software, high levels of efficiency, compact algorithms and real-time capability). With regard to the technology, the crucial chal- lenge is to ensure that all the vehicle’s com- ponents and systems can function as an inter- linked whole. That means we need highly secure and totally dependable large-band- width data connections. Without that ingredi- ent, we can’t create a functionally safe dual- system environment, i.e. one that combines IT and ES. At the same time, of course, the data being transmitted will need to be extremely se- cure in line with the principle that there is no safety without security. The imminent arrival of 5G superfast mobile technology will lay the foundations for highly secure data connections with minimal latency (defined as the signal transmission time or the delay between the triggering and execu- tion of an action or response). The resulting highly secure connections between the ve- hicle’s embedded systems and suitably de- signed IT back-ends will provide a major im- petus to the further evolution of assisted- driving technology in the direction of de- pendable higher-level automation and auton- omous driving. In terms of development processes, the even greater complexity associated with these sol- utions presents vehicle manufacturers and their development partners with an enormous challenge – one that can only be tackled using effective methods and tools and a thorough understanding of both environments. In turn, that involves acquiring and maintaining the relevant expertise across the whole range of on-board and off-board technology, e.g. de- signing system-of-systems architectures; con- nectivity within the vehicle, between vehicles, and between vehicles and the infrastructure (Car2x); embedded-system engineering; IT software development, model-based software development, automotive security and pri- vacy; ISO26262 functional safety standards; continuous integration; software and data lo- gistics: diagnostics; infotainment; and, very importantly, the testing and safety-proofing (using virtual methods) and the multimodal integration of apps and mobile online services. In this context, of course, data analytics and artificial intelligence are now completely indis- pensable. Dr. Hieronymus Fischer Head of Innovation Center Automotive Division Digital BusinessCard ESG ELEKTRONIKSYSTEM- UND LOGISTIK GMBH Livry-Gargan-Straße 6 82256 Fürstenfeldbruck E-Mail: marketing@esg.de Contact ESG Mobility www.esg-mobility.com Website Company Profile ServiceXpert Gesellschaft für Service- Informationssysteme mbH Frankfurter Ring 211 80807 Munich Germany Phone: +49 89 2444209-0 Fax: +49 89 2444209-99 office@servicexpert.de www.servicexpert.de/en ServiceXpert ServiceXpert, system & software house for commercial vehicle OEMs and suppliers, is established engineer- ing partner for vehicle E/E develop- ment. Thereby ServiceXpert focusses on functions and software develop- ment as well as test & integration to the entire vehicle. With specific know how ServiceXpert engineers develop innovative solutions. The Diagnostics-Centre engineers compile comprehensive diagnostic solutions from development to after-sales service. ServiceXpert assists its customers in planning, implementation and opera- tion of information management sys- tems throughout the product lifecycle. For supporting the after-sales service the company developed modular IT solutions and mobile applications. Advertisement