Smart Monitoring for Safety-Assurance in Autonomous Driving

Monitoring the functionality of systems during operation is vital for detecting faults and preventing their consequences. In autonomous driving, monitoring is even more critical because of hardly being able to verify all implemented functionality. Today, systems comprise many interacting components making centralized monitoring less feasible and hard to handle. Hence, we suggest a distributed but connected monitoring system that reflects the system’s conceptual structure. In this paper, we outline the foundations of a monitoring system, present some applications and show how we use concepts like the operational design domain and requirements for obtaining the required monitoring knowledge in the application area of autonomous driving.