"I have been working with Mario Cruz Torres and the IVEX team for a bit more than a year. The project with IVEX involved the full construction of safety rules for car motion control and their materialization through both offline checks using the Safety Assessment Tool as well as online (embedded), understanding the realtime performance and embeddability of the checker code on a typical ECU HW platform. Through this project, I had the occasion to analyze and verify a large set of the IVEX technology capabilities.
Very simply said, this was a real amazing experience to work with the IVEX team and technology. The IVEX team in clearly built of experts in their domain and that deliver excellent quality tools. Through the usage of those and the process we constructed with IVEX to materialize the safety rules, not only this led to a successful implementation, with impressive realtime performance for the checker, but it also allowed to ask the right questions regarding the rules themselves and to improve them as we where progressing.
The overall methodology that was, hence, created can now be used as a reference for the offline/online checking of functional designs at Renault with regards to full motion safety quality analysis, using any road captures. And this, by itself, has a huge value for Renault and the Alliance to secure ADAS systems developments beyond the usual validation approaches. It is always inspiring when such a project leads to a major leap forward in methodology. And we could achieve that thanks to IVEX technology."
Jean-Pierre Giacalone, ADAS/AD Systems SW Architecture – Expert, Groupe Renault, Renault SW Labs.