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Comparing Different Levels of Technical Systems for a Modular Safety Approval—Why the State of the Art Does Not Dispense with System Tests Yet

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  • Björn Klamann

    (Institute of Automotive Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Darmstadt, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany)

  • Hermann Winner

    (Institute of Automotive Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Darmstadt, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany)

Abstract

While systems in the automotive industry have become increasingly complex, the related processes require comprehensive testing to be carried out at lower levels of a system. Nevertheless, the final safety validation is still required to be carried out at the system level by automotive standards like ISO 26262. Using its guidelines for the development of automated vehicles and applying them for field operation tests has been proven to be economically unfeasible. The concept of a modular safety approval provides the opportunity to reduce the testing effort after updates and for a broader set of vehicle variants. In this paper, we present insufficiencies that occur on lower levels of hierarchy compared to the system level. Using a completely new approach, we show that errors arise due to faulty decomposition processes wherein, e.g., functions, test scenarios, risks, or requirements of a system are decomposed to the module level. Thus, we identify three main categories of errors: insufficiently functional architectures, performing the wrong tests, and performing the right tests wrongly. We provide more detailed errors and present examples from the research project UNICAR agil . Finally, these findings are taken to define rules for the development and testing of modules to dispense with system tests.

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  • Björn Klamann & Hermann Winner, 2021. "Comparing Different Levels of Technical Systems for a Modular Safety Approval—Why the State of the Art Does Not Dispense with System Tests Yet," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(22), pages 1-16, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:14:y:2021:i:22:p:7516-:d:676417
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    1. Ron Sanchez, 2013. "Building real modularity competence in automotive design, development, production, and after-service," International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 13(3), pages 204-236.
    2. Ron Sanchez & Tomoatsu Shibata, 2018. "Modularity Design Rules for Architecture Development: Theory, Implementation, and Evidence from Development of the Renault-Nissan Alliance "Common Module Family" Architecture," DSSR Discussion Papers 80, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University.
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    1. Arno Eichberger & Zsolt Szalay & Martin Fellendorf & Henry Liu, 2022. "Advances in Automated Driving Systems," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(10), pages 1-5, May.

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