Automotive

The use of software-intensive electronic controls in passenger and other road vehicles is rapidly evolving from a configuration of individual components to a system of systems with complex interactions and interdependencies. CSL understands that sources of safety risk associated with these technical advances is not limited to the failure of individual components but may also arise from unforeseen interactions between “correct” behaviors of individual components.

CSL was a member of international working group ISO TC22/SC3/WG16 that developed ISO 26262 (Road Vehicles – Functional Safety). Since 2006, CSL has worked closely with one of the world’s largest automakers contributing to the development of safety concepts for very advanced software-intensive systems for autonomous vehicles that control braking, propulsion and steering that be will incorporated into production vehicles over the next decade. J. Joyce of CSL is one of the inventors named in the following US Patents:US 8618922 – “Method and system for ensuring operation of limited-ability autonomous driving vehicles”US 9244460 – “Methods and apparatus for isolating safety functions in a motion control system for a vehicle” US 9740178 – “Primary controller designation in fault tolerent systems”

Typical client needs

  • Hazard analysis and specification of high level safety goals
  • Risk assessment and ASIL determination
  • Specification of functional safety requirements
  • System design and architecture
  • Verification and validation strategies
  • Human factors engineering

Projects

Confirming Confidence

CSL captured the critical thinking that underlies confidence in the world’s largest machine in an assurance case.

Ensuring Safe Initialization

Developing a safety case for the correct initialization of a computer system that executes safety-critical software in a driverless car.

Safety of Legacy Technologies

CSL helped authorities make informed decisions to repair or replace legacy technology integral to the safe operation of a complex system.

Confirming Confidence

CSL captured the critical thinking that underlies confidence in the world’s largest machine in an assurance case.

Ensuring Safe Initialization

Developing a safety case for the correct initialization of a computer system that executes safety-critical software in a driverless car.

Safety of Legacy Technologies

CSL helped authorities make informed decisions to repair or replace legacy technology integral to the safe operation of a complex system.

Confirming Confidence

CSL captured the critical thinking that underlies confidence in the world’s largest machine in an assurance case.

Ensuring Safe Initialization

Developing a safety case for the correct initialization of a computer system that executes safety-critical software in a driverless car.

Safety of Legacy Technologies

CSL helped authorities make informed decisions to repair or replace legacy technology integral to the safe operation of a complex system.