THE PROJECT

The vision of Trustonomy (a neologism from the combination of trust + autonomy) is to raise the safety, trust and acceptance of automated vehicles by helping to address the aforementioned technical and non-technical challenges through a well-integrated and inter-disciplinary approach, bringing domain experts and ordinary citizens to work closely together.

Autonomous vehicles are becoming a reality and most of the major automakers have plans to commercially release an autonomous vehicle (nearly or fully self-driving, i.e. SAE levels L4 or L5 vehicles, respectively) by 2020-2024. Despite these technological breakthroughs, the current projections of market analysts indicate that broad adoption of fully autonomous vehicles might be decades away.

This in turn suggests that the human factor will remain essential for the safety and performance of road transport in the forthcoming decades, mainly for two reasons:

– Due to the necessary driver-vehicle interaction in cases where the boundaries of the Operational Design Domain (ODD) of an Automated Driving System (ADS) are being reached.

– Because of the co-existence of fully-, semi- and non- autonomous vehicles, which is likely to be raising unexpected challenges.

Central to the human role in the Connected Automated Driving (CAD) is the transition from automated to manual driving mode. This might be system-initiated or user-initiated.

Obviously various challenges arise in such a dynamic driver-vehicle interaction scheme, tackled in the project according to the following specific objectives:

• Develop a Methodological Framework for the operational assessment of different Driver State Monitoring (DSM) systems
• Develop a Methodological Framework for the operational assessment of various HMI Designs
• Develop an ethical automated-decision-support framework, covering liability concerns and risk assessment
• Develop novel Driver Training Curricula for human drivers of ADS
• Define a Driver Intervention Performance Assessment (DIPA) Framework
• Measure performance, trust and acceptance (simulations and field trials) of human drivers of ADS
• OrganiseCommunication and Exploitation Actions, Policy Recommendations and Contributions to Standards

For more information about the project, please visit the website https://h2020-trustonomy.eu/

CONSORTIUM

A consolidated research group with a renowned academic and industrial profile.

• algoWatt SpA
• Aitek SpA
• Catalink Limited
• CSIC
• Intrasoft International SA
• ItalScania SpA
• ITS
• Panepistimio Patron
• Robocar Technologies
• SAS
• Solaris Bus & Coach Spolka Akcyjna
• TTS
• TTS ITALIA
• Université Gustave Eiffel
• University of Leeds
• Vodafone Innovus SA