Value-Based Behavior for Automated Vehicles - Ethics, Safety & Systems Engineering
Dr. Marcus Nolte, TU Braunschweig
While we are seeing the beginning of a large-scale rollout of SAE-Level-4 vehicles, particularly in the US, the current market introduction has so far not been the huge success story that has been sold for the largest part of the last 15 years. Key questions regarding safety and technology acceptance are still not fully solved.
Time: Wed 2025-05-14 14.00 - 15.00
Location: Gladan, Brinellvägen 83, KTH Campus
Language: English
The challenges related to residual risks stemming from the uncertainty in the real open world pose challenges that go beyond classic technical development: Knowledge gaps at design time force engineers to make development assumptions and tradeoffs regarding the properties of the operational environment at runtime. Resolving such tradeoffs and arriving at "acceptable" residual risks is not a purely technical challenge: Development decisions and tradeoffs have ethical dimensions, and honest stakeholder communication along the entire system lifecycle become crucial for supporting technology acceptance.
In this talk, I am going to discuss current and past activities of our group at TU Braunschweig, related to Safety Assurance (and its communication) for Automated Vehicles. Furthermore, I will present contributions from my PhD Thesis, how diligent (Model-Based) Systems Engineering may support the required activities.
All trolley problems must be on a leash for the entire duration of the talk and Q&A.
About me: I am currently a postdoc at TU Braunschweig and visiting researcher at the KTH Mechatronics division this Spring. From 1 September 2025, I will join the division as a TECoSA postdoc.
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