Criticality analysis for the verification and validation of automated vehicles

C Neurohr, L Westhofen, M Butz, MH Bollmann… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… , we propose a methodical criticality analysis that maps an infinite… of critical situations for
automated vehicles. We propose a … A criticality analysis precedes the design phase of an …

Criticality metrics for automated driving: A review and suitability analysis of the state of the art

L Westhofen, C Neurohr, T Koopmann, M Butz… - … Methods in Engineering, 2023 - Springer
… Consequentially, during the continuous pursuit of deploying safe automated vehicles on public
… a well-suited measurement tool for computing aspects of criticality within the task at hand. …

Leveraging the gidas database for the criticality analysis of automated driving systems

S Babisch, C Neurohr, L Westhofen… - Journal of Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… Testing automated vehicles on public roads can be accompanied by the responsible
companies disclosing details on potential incidents, such as disengagements (the safety driver …

A Bayesian regression analysis of the effects of alert presence and scenario criticality on automated vehicle takeover performance

H Alambeigi, AD McDonald - Human factors, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective This study investigates the impact of silent and alerted failures on driver performance
across two levels of scenario criticality during automated vehicle transitions of control. …

What happens when drivers of automated vehicles take over control in critical brake situations?

F Roche, M Thüring, AK Trukenbrod - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2020 - Elsevier
… After almost a decade of intense psychological and ergonomic research on automated vehicles,
it … the objective criticality impacted the subjective criticality (RQ 1), whether the objective …

Evaluation of virtual traffic situations for testing automated driving functions based on multidimensional criticality analysis

B Huber, S Herzog, C Sippl, R German… - 2020 IEEE 23rd …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… of the automated driving function is necessary. Therefore, this work presents a multidimensional
criticality analysis … and automated vehicles,” SAE International Journal of Connected and …

Using ontologies for the formalization and recognition of criticality for automated driving

L Westhofen, C Neurohr, M Butz… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… , and semantically analyzed by machines. In the area of automated vehicles, recent advances
… about factors associated with criticality in the environment of automated vehicles. For this, …

Criticality assessment method for automated driving systems by introducing fictive vehicles and variable criticality thresholds

D Nalic, T Mihalj, F Orucevic, M Schabauer, C Lex… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
… By introducing variable thresholds, a criticality scale is defined and used for criticality … the
criticality of the lanes adjacent to the ego vehicle. This is performed by placing fictive vehicles in …

Acceleration-based collision criticality metric for holistic online safety assessment in automated driving

C Wang, C Popp, H Winner - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Consequently, it has a wider application scope than other criticalityautomated vehicles,
we apply the criticality metric to a naturalistic driving dataset. The results prove that our criticality

A taxonomy of validation strategies to ensure the safe operation of highly automated vehicles

F Batsch, S Kanarachos, M Cheah… - Journal of Intelligent …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
automated vehicle validation. In Section 4, we discuss the findings from the literature analysis
… An objective function would then for example target the maximization of a criticality score, …