Episode 17 (English) - Verification and standardization of autonomous vehicles - with Siddartha Khastgir

Dr Siddartha Khastgir is the Head of Verification &
Validation of collaborative autonomous vehicles (CAV) at WMG,
University of Warwick, UK. His research areas in the CAV domain
include test scenario generation, safety, simulation-based
testing, Safe AI among many others. He has received numerous
national and international awards for his research contributions,
including the prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, a
seven-year Fellowship focused on safety evaluation of CAVs, and
is a Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list maker. He is also the project
leader for ASAM standardisation project - OpenODD, and an active
participant at ASAM, SAE, ISO and UNECE discussions.


In this episode we talked about verification and validation of
autonomous vehicles. This includes the advantages and challenges
of simulations and how one research question raises several more
questions. We also talked about the low-speed autonomous driving
and about the new standard ISO 22737 “Low-Speed Automated Driving
(LSAD) systems”. He was the lead author of that standard, as well
as of ISO 34503 “Taxonomy for ODD”, where ODD stands for
Operational design domain.


Further resources:


BSI PAS 1883 - The publicly available standard on how to
define an ODD can be found here

ISO 22737:2021 - The new standard on low-speed autonomous
vehicles can be found here

More on openODD can be found here

Check out Siddarthas website