IEEE to Define a Formal Model for Safe Automated Vehicle Decision-Making
December 19 2019 - 3:30PM
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Jack Weast, senior principal engineer at
Intel and vice president of Automated Vehicle Standards at
Mobileye, speaks Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, at the 2019 Mobileye
Investor Summit. (Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation)
What’s New: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) has approved a proposal to develop a standard for
safety considerations in automated vehicle (AV) decision-making and
named Intel Senior Principal Engineer Jack Weast to lead the
workgroup. Participation in the workgroup is open to companies
across the AV industry, and Weast hopes for broad industry
representation. Group members will hold their first meeting in
2020’s first quarter.
“The forthcoming IEEE standard will provide a
useful tool to answer the question of what it means for an AV to
drive safely.” – Jack Weast, Intel senior principal engineer
Why It Matters: Industry and regulators are struggling to
agree on a method for evaluating the safety of AVs, although most
people agree that standards are needed to establish regulatory
thresholds for granting AVs their driver’s licenses. Multiple
approaches are in development even though industry consensus is
lacking.
Meanwhile, technology development is not standing still and is
nearly ready. This puts pressure on regulators to create rules for
operating AVs worldwide. Known for its technical depth and relative
speed at standards development, IEEE expects to publish the first
version of the standard within a year – an important consideration
as calls for regulation increase.
“This standardization project will provide an important basis
for the development of open, formal models in automated vehicle
decision-making,” said Riccardo Mariani, vice president of
Standards Activities at IEEE Computer Society and vice president of
Industry Safety at NVIDIA. “Redundancy and diversity are crucial to
developing scalable frameworks for safe automated driving.”
How It Works: The new standard – IEEE 2846 – will
establish a formal rules-based mathematical model for automated
vehicle decision-making that will be formally verifiable (with
math), technology neutral (meaning anybody can apply it) and
adjustable to allow for regional customization by local
governments. It will also include a test methodology and tools
necessary to perform verification of an AV to assess conformance
with the standard.
Who Is Involved: Two IEEE committees co-sponsored the
proposal: The IEEE Computer Society and the Vehicle Technology
Society. Weast will chair the workgroup, which Weast says is open
to “anyone with an interest in crafting this essential AV
standard.”
Intel’s Role: Intel will bring its
Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS) framework as a starting point
for the industry to align on what it means for an AV to drive
safely. Open and technology-neutral, RSS defines what it means for
a machine to drive safely with a set of logically provable rules
and prescribed proper responses to dangerous situations. It
formalizes human notions of safe driving in mathematical formulas
that are transparent and verifiable.
Why It’s Needed: The IEEE standard is needed because the
decision-making capability of an AV’s computer is mostly hidden
from observation. This capability is largely driven by a collection
of artificial intelligence algorithms – a “black box” of sorts –
that is at the heart of important intellectual property from the
leading companies in the AV industry. The black-box nature of an
AV’s driving policy makes it nearly impossible to comparatively
judge the safety of the different vehicles. As some industry
experts have said, statistical evidence – such as number of miles
driven, frequency of human intervention or hours in simulation –
can only go so far before the car gets into a scenario it’s never
seen before.
More Context: Autonomous Driving at Intel
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