At Fraunhofer IESE, we are developing software systems for the automotive and commercial vehicle industry that are dependable in every respect. We empirically underpin the processes, methods, and techniques required for this, attaching great importance to engineering principles such as measurability and transparency.
In the application area Automotive, Fraunhofer IESE supports companies with software engineering analyses and innovative solutions.
In recent years, vehicles have increasingly become “computers on wheels”, with complex, highly dependable software on board. The trends towards a higher degree of automation and digital networking of services in the automotive industry are further driving this development.
Today and in the future, vehicle users want to make use of innovative services, whose functions are implemented efficiently in an end-to-end architecture. Highly automated assistance systems and driving functions must work safely and reliably in order to enable implementation of new mobility services, such as robotaxis, or innovative commercial vehicle solutions, such as mobile autonomous safeguarding of construction sites. Existing standards such as ISO 26262 or ISO 21448 (SOTIF) still provide only insufficient support for such systems. Particularly in connection with Artificial Intelligence (AI), resp. Machine Learning, the issue of Safety is a challenge. At Fraunhofer IESE, research in this field has been ongoing for several years already, with a variety of solutions offered. The underlying methods can be integrated into the processes of automotive software engineering. Together with our partners, we build on these to develop solution concepts and products.
Read more about Safety for Autonomous Systems
On the part of the development processes, major changes are also on the horizon – the integration of vehicles into digital ecosystems requires Continuous Engineering. Commercial vehicles are already networked in a variety of ways. In the future, it will be possible, for example, to flexibly extend agricultural machinery with software functions, while updates will provide optimal usage parameters at all times. To enable this, activities must be further automated and formalized models must be developed for software components (Model-based Engineering). Particularly testing and inspection tasks are predestined for this – virtual integration, virtual validation, or virtual deployment are the keywords in automotive software engineering for which Fraunhofer IESE even provides its own framework. This makes it possible to realize the solutions for tomorrow already today.
Read more about FERAL – our tool for virtual development
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In our Annual Report 2018/2019 with the focus on AI, you can find current articles on the topics of “Automotive Software” and “Safe AI”:
Annual Report Fraunhofer IESE 2018/2019
Are you interested in continuing education? We share our expertise and our knowledge in our Fraunhofer seminars and our degree program:
Master Degree Program “Software Engineering for Embedded Systems”
Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE