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ECSEL-prosjekt (ENABLE-S3; EUROPEAN INITIATIVE TO ENABLE VALIDATION FOR HIGHLY AUTOMATED SAFE AND SECURE SYSTEMS)

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

The objective of ENABLE-S3 has been to establish cost-efficient cross-domain virtual and semi-virtual Validation and Verification platforms and methods for Advanced Cyber Physcial Systems. ENABLE-S3 aspires to substitute today?s physical validation and verification efforts by virtual, scenario based testing and verification, coverage-oriented test selection methods and standardization. NAVTOR is the only industry partner in Maritime domain, holding the Enable-S3 Maritime use case (UC10) investigating and developing simulation capabilities for the purpose of testing the System Under Test (SYT), i.e. the Shore-Based-Bridge (SBB) including route planning, monitoring and ship control systems, in a Test System (TS); i.e. a Co-simulator. Appropriate communication system(s) for ship-shore-ship is required. Basis input will come from Cross-domain learning from Automotive industry. The project Kick-Off was located to AVL?s in Graz, Austria June 2-3rd 2016, and the ?Maritime Kick off? was held in Egersund, August 23-24th 2016 with representation from all the 12 partners. A major milestone was reached in the first Review Meeting to be held by our co-coordinator OFFIS in Oldenburg May 23 ? 24th 2017, where first version of a maritime demonstration was one out of two demonstrators at this event, having good feedback from the EU Reviewers. All deliverables have one internal and two external reviews. In addition, NAVTOR, as the Use Case owner, is responsible partner and e.g. leads the bi-weekly use case meetings. Significant results last 6 months I 2019: * The Maritime Use Case was finalized allowing defining requirements for the Simulation Platform and the V&V tools, as well as requests for sensor stimuli and simulators. * Final refinement of the Shore-Based-Bridge (SBB), the SUT in UC10, aiming to develop simulation capabilities for the purpose of testing a remote, Shore-Based-Bridge including route planning, monitoring and ship control systems as well as appropriate communication system(s) for ship-shore-ship. * Development and Testing of acknowledgement function for received commands sent from shore to vessel * Evaluation of the SBB concept by virtual validation and verification by a co-simulator. * Finalized Maritime KPIs to meet the main objectives (TCR) of ENABEL*S3; -Obj_01: Reduce at least 50% of test execution effort compared to conventional testing. -Obj_02: Reduce the test environment setup effort by 50% compared to the effort needed for conventional testing. -Obj_03: Ensure probability of malfunctioning behaviour of automated functions below 10E-9/h. * Preparing and leading the presentation and live demo for the 3rd and final review meeting in Graz, May 17th 2019; The Maritime Co-simulation platform consists of three simulators allowing for V&V in the maritime Use case: -Maritime Runtime Environment, i.e eMIR platform (OFFIS, Germany) -HiL Ship simulator (AVL SFR, Austria) -Satellite communication simulator (GUT, Poland) * Related work tasks include; -Establishment of the Co-simulation btw the Ship-Engine model (AVL-SF) in Regensburg and the Runtime (OFFIS) in Oldenburg. Significant time and efforts have been used in establishing this co-simulaitor, incl. installastion of a ?Baracuda server? at OFFIS side and establishment of VPN connection. -Near real time sensor transfer and route exchange from vessel to Shore Based Bridge. -Setting up and testing the demonstrator at NAVTOR location prior to Review meeting. -Testing of precisions in integrated simulator components. -Testing simulator by doing real Scenario-based V&V of the Shore Based Bridge. * Facilitated Bi-weekly Use Case meeting to make sure integration and demonstration will meet Project requirements. * Supported Maritime UC's reports, e.g. D4.4.2 v3 Demonstration Report + Feedback from the maritime use case * DNV-GL report; to evaluate the use of scenario-based test and validation, and the presented scenarios were evaluated and analyzed according to COLREG requirement. The presented maritime scenarios to be analyzed as ?tools? with the aim to achieve acceptance to use the method and scenarios to reduce onboard testing, speed up testing and lower time to market.

In the maritime domain we need to address why collisions are happening, and find way to prove an autonomous vehicle or vessel will drive/sail as safe as a normal vehicle/vessel. As we believe the industry requires more support from shore, we like to test a concept of a Shore Based Bridge (SBB) by using maritime co-simulators. In the ENABLE-S3 project, cross domain learning has been achieved, and scenario-based V&V has been introduced to test the concept of SBB by simulation-based testing using a co-simulator consisting of three main components; 1. Maritime Runtime Environment, eMIR platform (OFFIS, Germany) 2. HiL Ship simulator (AVL SFR, Austria) 3. Satellite communication simulator (GUT, Poland) The benefit of the suggested ENABLE*S3 V&V concept is obvious in the maritime domain, however a Key Performance indexes were ALSO made, clearly outlying the huge potential

The vision of ENABLE-S3 is the European technological leadership in development and deployment of highly automated and autonomous cyber-physical systems (ACPS), enabled by new functional, safety and security verification and validation approaches. Highly automated and autonomous cyber-physical systems (ACPS) are the next major technology field and challenge enabling a huge number of new applications, business models and major commercial opportunities for European high-tech companies in many essential industry sectors. Recent studies have identified an estimated annual market value for autonomous systems in Transport (Automotive, Air, Rail, Maritime) of 82 Billion for the UK market only. The world unmanned ground vehicle market even expects a CAGR of 30% by 2019. The market growth for partially and fully automated vehicles is expected from around $42B in 2025 to $77B in 2035. These numbers show the vast potential of this industry and the capability of the European industry to be at the forefront of ACPS development and deployment will decide about their technological competitiveness and leadership in ECSEL key applications such as smart mobility, health care, energy, smart cities and production. A recent scientific publications from the automotive sector predict that more than 100 Mio km of road driving would be required for the thorough validation of an automated car. Only if these extensive tests have been done, it is statistically proven that the automated vehicle is as safe as a manually driven car. The ACPS verification challenge is very similar in other domains. New approaches need to reduce the effort required by today?s state-of-theart practices by orders of magnitude in order to become economically acceptable. Driven by 13 industrial ACPS use-cases from 6 industry sectors (automotive, aerospace, rail, maritime, health, farming), the ENABLE-S3 consortium will develop a European cross-domain framework for costefficient verification and validation.

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