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Safe AI Engineering
AI engineering ensures safety of AI components for autonomous, connected driving
Start: 03/2025
End: 02/2028

AI engineering as an enabler for a well-founded safety argumentation throughout the entire life cycle of an AI function.
The Safe AI Engineering project focuses on ensuring the safety of AI-controlled components for automated and connected driving. The project aims to develop a continuous, lifecycle-level safety methodology to ensure safety in dynamic environments. By integrating its results into established standards such as ISO 26262 and SOTIF, the project bridges the gap between AI verification and established safety assurance for the automotive industry.
The project focuses on camera-based detection of vulnerable road users (VRUs), such as pedestrians, using deep neural networks. Three increasingly complex scenarios are defined – from the detection of a static pedestrian to the handling of multiple dynamic VRUs in urban environments.
Role of the FZI
The FZI’s main focus in the project is on approaches to explainability and monitoring for AI-based perception functions. In particular, the FZI will investigate curriculum learning – targeted learning with increasing complexity – as well as redundancies at the layer level in neural networks using Mixture of Experts models.
Additionally, the FZI plans to evaluate and demonstrate the concepts and methods using CoCarNextGen.

Contact person

Philip Schörner
Department Manager
Division: Intelligent Systems and Production Engineering
+49 721 9654-358
Schoerner@fzi.de
Headquarters Karlsruhe

Research focus
Applied Artificial Intelligence

In this research focus, the FZI concentrates on practical research into the key technology of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Innovative AI solutions are developed and transferred to application areas such as mobility, robotics, healthcare technology, logistics, production, and supply and disposal on behalf of our partners and customers.

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Intelligent Transportation Systems and Logistics

Intelligente Lösungen für den Transport von Menschen und Gütern für die Mobilität der Zukunft stellen einen Schwerpunkt der FZI-Forschung dar. Dazu entwickelt das FZI integrierte Mobilitätssysteme – von der Fahrzeugautomatisierung über die Anwendung von KI in Verkehrssystemen bis zur urbanen Mobilität und Logistik.

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Funding notice:
Safe AI Engineering is a project of the KI Familie. It was initiated and developed by the VDA Leitinitiative autonomous and connected driving and is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.

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