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AESIN Conference 2024 Report
"Collaboration in a technology rich era" was the theme this year. View informative presentations from expert speakers, images and our summary of the day
AESIN Project: ESCAPE
ESCAPE is a £20M consortium project which aims to establish a globally unique and cohesive end-to-end supply chain capability for innovative SiC power electronics. AESIN is one of the 12 companies involved.
AESIN Project: Sim4CAMSens
The Sim4CAMSens project, is headed by Claytex and a consortium of prominent industry partners - including AESIN - as part of the Commercialising CAM Supply Chain Competition.
AESIN Project: RESAuto
RESAuto is using an Automotive Braking System integrated with a real-time monitoring and compliance system as its exemplar. AESIN is one of the partners along with Thales and WMG
Engineering Trustworthy AI
TechWorks announce an AI Innovation Cross Working Group. To kick things off they have released a whitepaper on the subject of AI security
AESIN Special Interest Groups
Research and Innovation
Systems Engineering for Cyber Physical Systems
Perception Sensors for CAM
Security
User Experience / User Interface (UX/UI)
Research and Innovation
Systems Engineering for Cyber Physical Systems
Perception Sensors for CAM
Security
User Experience / User Interface (UX/UI)
Research and Innovation
Systems Engineering for Cyber Physical Systems
Perception Sensors for CAM
Security
User Experience / User Interface (UX/UI)
Software Defined Vehicle (SDV)
The SDV SIG has been established to help the Automotive industry design and create vehicles that depend on software for their operation. The AESIN membership includes organisations that can assist with all aspects of SDV, including design tools, services, embedded software, safety, cybersecurity, model-creation, and supporting hardware/semiconductors. The AESIN SDV represents a unique industry-wide collaboration that will be essential to enable creation of the next generation of vehicles.
This group is chaired by Andrew Patterson, SDV Hub. Andrew was previously a Business Development Director for Mentor Graphics’ embedded software division, specializing in automotive solutions (Mentor Automotive). Prior to Mentor, Andrew spent over 25 years in the Design Automation market and IT/Engineering markets, working in the areas of vehicle networks, simulation model development, and embedded software build, validation and testing. Recently he has been focused on automotive connectivity challenges involving ADAS, Infotainment, AUTOSAR, embedded security, and the use of complex SoCs in Linux-based in-vehicle solutions. Andrew holds a master’s degree in Engineering and Electrical Sciences from Cambridge University, UK.
Systems Engineering for Cyber Physical Systems
The modern automotive is part of a wider connected complex ecosystem with properties being influenced by external forces outside the control of the automotive OEMs. These include, but are not limited to, changing customer demand, accessibility, convenience, product differentiation, affordability, quality, resilience, industry consolidation, etc. The object of this special interest group is to understand the impact of the wider ecosystem and help the industry engineer products and business model drive benefits to both manufacturers and the wider community
This group is chaired by Peter Lockhart, Systems Engineering expert. After leaving Surrey University in 1984, Peter joined Plessey Research working on optical, acoustic and magnetic sensor research. My career has covered a broad range of sensor, communication and internet research and filed over 40 patent applications. His career has spanned both the civil and defence markets, developing bespoke sensors to full turn key systems for broadcast, transportation, defence and national security applications.
After managing Roke’s senior consultancy team for 6 years he was appointed Future Technology manager responsible for business technology strategy. He was responsible for driving Plessey’s innovation programme, covering all aspects of knowledge, technology and innovation management. He supplied consultancy on future technologies and was featured in the Financial Times as the Siemens future technologist.
Perception Sensors for CAM
Environmental Perception Sensors are the interface between the real word and the automated systems. “Robust Sensing” is key for any decision-making process in these systems (traditional control/AI-based). There are a number of areas this SIG addresses including sensor data collection, data fusion and transmission, sensor modelling & simulation, and the development of UK-centric sensor design capabilities.
Through a series of events to share knowledge, understand challenges we aim to influence future investment, building consortia, and aspire to build a sensor ‘supply chain’ the UK.
This group is chaired by Dr Valentina Donzella, Associate Professor in the Intelligent Vehicles group at WMG, University of Warwick, who is the Director of WMG’s MSc in Smart Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, managing a suite of modules in automotive sensors, sensor fusion, automotive embedded system V&V and robustness, machine intelligence, human technology interaction and communications. Valentina is leading the sensor workgroup in the AESIN ADAS & HAV workgroup.
Dr Donzella’s current research interests are: intelligent vehicle sensors, LiDARs, optical sensing, integrated optics, automotive electronics and test techniques. She currently supervises a number of doctoral, masters and undergraduate project students.
Valentina completed her Ph.D. (with honours) in Innovative Technologies for Communication and Information Engineering form SSSUP (Pisa, Italy). Before joining WMG, she was a postdoctoral researcher and then MITACS fellow at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC), working on Silicon Photonics integrated optical sensors.
Security
Connected and Automated cars are part of a complex, hyper-connected, bottom-up system with emergent properties for which there is no guiding mind. A System is Resilient if, and only if, there is justifiable and enduring confidence that it will function as expected, when expected. It is Secure if it displays this property in the face of an Adversary. It is Cyber Secure if it displays this property in the face of an Adversary that need not be co-located. We believe that Cyber resilience is a board level responsibility. Most C-level executives share in the consequences of a breach.
Through a series of workshops and publications we aim to propose a methodology for Cyber Resilience, discuss Security in a regulatorily fragmented world, and answer questions like How do I trust the software? The SIG also boasts the hugely popular annual AESIN Security Conference.
Chair is Peter Davies, a Technical Director of Thales in the UK. He is their leading expert on Cryptography in the UK responsible for providing cryptography and information security direction and expertise on a variety of products and projects. Previous work includes the development and certification of flexible and interoperable commercial security solutions that are also widely used by governments; these solutions are available worldwide and support the security of both communications and infomatics in an international, multi grade environment. His specialist knowledge is at the core of the cyber defence and forensics activities that he uses to combat existential treats against business. He can, and has, interacted on security and products at any level from Prime Minister, through Board to deep technical including Agencies, Certification Labs and partners developing and sustaining business opportunities worldwide. He has generated patents in the area of digital DNA and my research covers aspects of technical security as well as aspects of super-identities and their role in combatting human based cyber-attacks. He has lead EU security research contracts and has acted as an expert on others. As well as contributing to standards He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and deliver lectures to postgraduate information and cyber security programmes in the UK and worldwide.
Co-Chair is Paul Wooderson is Cybersecurity Principal Engineer and leads the cybersecurity team in HORIBA MIRA’s Vehicle Resilience department. He holds a MEng degree in Electronic Engineering and is a Chartered Engineer with 18 years’ experience in embedded systems security in the automotive and previously smartcard domains. Paul’s experience includes security engineering research, consultancy, penetration testing and security certification. He is a UK Expert to the working groups developing ISO/SAE 21434 and ISO 24089, the new international standards for road vehicles cybersecurity and over the air software updates. Paul also led the Innovate UK funded collaborative project 5StarS, which developed an assurance framework and consumer rating system for vehicle cybersecurity.Paul is a member of the AESIN Security Workstream and has a number of publications on automotive cybersecurity engineering and embedded systems security.
Research and Innovation
The R&I SIG addresses the medium- to longer-term research agenda in automotive electronic systems. It is aiming to understand what is the state-of-the-art in science and technology in this field, what are the unique skills and resources within the university sector that could be leveraged, what are the key industry challenges over the next few years, and, ultimately, what are the barriers to collaboration across academia and industry. The SIG is developing effective models to overcome these challenges, by engaging with stakeholders internal and external to AESIN.
Chair is Siraj Shaikh, a Professor in Systems Security at Swansea University. His research interests lie at the intersection of cybersecurity, systems engineering, and automotive systems. He has previously been a Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellow at HORIBA MIRA (2015-16) addressing automotive cybersecurity testing.
User Experience / User Interface (UX/UI)
User Experience and User Interfaces (UX/UI) are the next “Oil” for vehicle OEMs. With more and more purchase decisions of vehicles being influenced by the in-cabin customer experience, the UX/UI SIG seeks to create a UK-centric ecosystem that can accelerate the development of disruptive technologies through advanced tools, methods, facilities and processes.
Through a series of roundtable discussions, the UX/UI SIG seeks to develop solutions that can put the UK in a globally competitive position to master the art of creating future UX/UI in vehicles.
Chair is Jim Nicholas who is the CEO of Uniphy Limited, a company dedicated to Product Designer creative freedom to realise freeform 3D products, with touch sensing on their surface, proximity sensing about the surface, the integration of displays & intuitive HMI controllers such as dials, sliders buttons & switches, whilst doing so with a breakthrough in capital investment.
Jim is also Chairman of Codeplay a world-renowned software company “Enabling AI to be Open, Safe & Accessible to all” and a board member of Silexica a disruptive startup “Mastering software/hardware complexity at the intelligent edge”. He has held a variety of executive positions. He was the CEO of MIPS Technologies, leading the transition out of Imagination Technologies into the standalone entity acquired by Tallwood Venture Capital.
Before that he was promoted to Imagination Technologies’ Executive Vice President & MIPS Business Unit General Manager. Whilst responsible for MIPS, Jim defined & executed the strategy of ensuring that MIPS was considered a leading architecture addressing autonomous driving & AI, developing a strong relationship with Mobileye.
Other appointments have included being GM of STMicroelectronics’ Microcontroller Division {creating the 8-bit STM8 & the world’s most commercially successful & ubiquitous ARM based, 32-bit microcontroller family, the STM32}, VP of Marketing for ARM’s Processor Division, VP & GM of Processors Subsystems & Productivity group for ST-Ericsson [& STMicroelectronics] and VP of Marketing for Toumaz Ltd {Healthcare & Consumer Electronics {Frontier Smart Technologies}. Jim has a track record for successfully transforming distressed businesses & ineffective R&D organizations into productive & profitable entities. He is founder/owner of AutonomyN LLC a Strategic & Operations Services Consultancy & a board member of Silexica.
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Who AESIN is
What AESIN does
AESIN provides platforms for our members to discuss, share and collaborate. These include conferences, member plenaries, webinars, workshops and roundtables, special interest groups, and social events. AESIN members provide thought leadership inputting to and influencing the strategic direction for the UK’s Automotive Electronics Systems industry. We will aim to create strong links to UK’s best academics for our industry to leverage.
How AESIN delivers
At the core of AESIN activities are our industry driven workstreams and interest groups. The focus is on delivery of thought leading white papers, creation of consortia to bid into collaborative R&D funding rounds and working with the AESIN leadership team to provide technical insights to influencing organisations such as the Automotive Council UK, The Technology Transport Forum, the Department for Transport, Zenzic and SEMI in Europe.
Oxa brings self-driving software to industrial logistics with StreetDrone acquisition
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Protecting the Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) from cyberattacks
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NEWS
CEDR: Call 2022 Data
The aim of this programme is to provide the NRAs a certain level of confidence in approaching the era of digitalisation, where collecting, managing and sharing the data from NRAs, third-party service providers and road users become vital to improve the safety, efficiency and sustainability of road transport.
TIARA Webinar
The CEDR funded Trusted Integrity and Authenticity for Road Applications (TIARA) [1] project is happy to announce an upcoming online workshop focusing on three main topics for you or your organisation to choose.
Oxa brings self-driving software to industrial logistics with StreetDrone acquisition
Self-driving vehicle software group Oxa has bolstered its position in industrial logistics with the acquisition of StreetDrone. Read more at UKTN.
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