MEET THE SAFE-UP PARTNERS
AUDI
Who belongs to your SAFE-UP team?
The Audi colleagues involved in SAFE-UP have profound knowledge of accident research, crash data analysis, and the development of test procedures for pedestrian/cyclist detection systems and automatic braking systems. Mr. Volker Labenski, project leader from Audi, coordinates the work within SAFE-UP and contributes with crash data analysis results as a basis for the SAFE-UP demonstrators set up in work packages 3 and 4. Mr. Markus Köbe has profound expertise in methodology development and simulative effectiveness evaluation. Besides crash data analysis, he contributes with an additional analysis of a Naturalistic Driving dataset and considers requirements for the simulation for results based on all considered datasets. Mr. Johann Stoll has vast experience in the development of test procedures for pedestrian/cyclist detection systems, automatic braking systems, and universal target dummies for automatic driving systems. With this knowledge, he supports work package 3. All work is done in close cooperation with SAFE-UP partner CARIAD to transfer insights from crashes directly into the simulation.
What does AUDI bring to the project?
We have our own accident investigation team gaining knowledge on crashes, their emergence, and their outcomes. The company therefore has many years of experience using in-depth crash data and other related data sources. That’s why Audi mainly brings expertise from accident research - both investigation and analysis - into SAFE-UP. Audi contributes to WP2 and WP3 which involve the identification of current safety-critical scenarios based on crash and naturalistic driving data. This step is important to understand the current situation as the basis for simulations done in SAFE-UP. Providing input and accompanying the simulations with the development of metrics under the consideration of simulation requirements is mainly done in WP3.
Why did you want to take part in SAFE-UP?
The automobile industry is going through profound change. Audi is moving forward with a clear strategy for an electrical, digital, and connected future. Analyzing critical traffic scenarios while considering future developments - especially connected and automated vehicles - is part of parallel developments in assisted and automated driving at Audi. Participating in a project where the focus is on active and passive safety systems for use in real traffic scenarios is highly important for this evolution. Our close partnership with CARIAD within SAFE-UP plays a significant role in that as well.
Which other initiatives are you involved in?
The Audi Accident Research Team is involved in multiple projects related to accident research throughout the world, including China, the USA, and Germany. Based on our primary objective to contribute to the improvement of general traffic safety, our activities gather input to improve the product attributes of Audi vehicles. Many aspects are important for our work, such as understanding the emergence of crashes. Analyzing mechanisms and the outcomes of crashes provides valuable insights from which we can derive relevant measures for the development of Audi vehicles. The support of development departments regarding product safety, active and passive safety and automated driving, and the communication of analysis results, are major goals of the Audi Accident Research Team.
Related deliverables
D2.6 USE CASE DEFINITIONS AND INITIAL SAFETY-CRITICAL SCENARIOS
D3.2 Demo 2 Vehicle demonstrator for object detection in adverse weather conditions