Yesterday, the Federal Motor Transport Authority published the requirements for automated valet parking.
The idea is that you park the car and it drives autonomously to the parking lot with a call from your smartphone and looks for a suitable parking space. The concept is called Automated valet parking and the requirements for commissioning have now been defined.
The technical AVP requirements catalog is the first requirements catalog for the subsequent activation of automated and autonomous driving functions. If all the conditions are met, you can KBA issue a permit for automated valet parking in the future. That is also the basis Law on autonomous driving by 2021.
The general requirements include the maximum speed of 10 kilometers per hour, interference from magnetic or electric fields must be prevented or that training concepts are provided, for example. The appraisers must have knowledge of ISO 26262, IEC 61508 and ISO/PAS 21448. In addition, notices must be attached that this is autonomous parking
When activated, the vehicle must be secured against rolling and after the parking space has been found, the system must be deactivated. It must be at every sight and weather conditions function and have a clear identification. In the parking garage, the car must reliably recognize people and objects. Should an accident be unavoidable, no “further weighting based on personal characteristics may be provided”. In other words, there must be no preferential treatment, for example.
There must be no hindrance to traffic and in the event of a system failure, it must be transferred to a risk-minimum state. Examples of this are errors in the control unit, tire pressure loss, transmission errors, power failure or missing identification, data storage errors or not following the navigation route. Even if the car is accessed or there are other errors, the vehicle must be brought into a risk-minimum condition. This state may only be ended when there are no more errors or when it is operated manually. One Remote control is only allowed within a radius of six meters.
The safety check requires a derivation of safety goals based on a risk analysis. The security concept includes all possible operating situations and technical redundancies as well as the transfer to the risk-minimum state.
The vehicle inspection must be carried out in a timely manner and also include wear and tear and aging of the system components. the Tests for functionality must not be based solely on simulations. The KBA checks the reliability based on test cases and provides for the monitoring of tests.
Protection against cyber attacks is also regulated. Appropriate measures must be taken in this way, such as a risk assessment of the hardware, the control units, the smartphones and all safety-critical interfaces. The software must also be checked, booting secured and encryption carried out. Unauthorized access should be prevented and updates should be able to be imported.
If there are structural changes, these must be taken into account in the AVP concept and data protection must be guaranteed. The vehicle owners must be informed of the risks associated with the operation. The operator must submit reports to the KBA about the operation. The regular reports must include the number of trips, cancellations, breakdowns and manipulations, and the kilometers traveled. In the event of problems with the entire system or a attempted manipulation there must be an ad hoc report.
A test catalog is that KBA paper attached.