SAFEXPLAIN: From Vision to Reality
AI Robustness & Safety
Explainable AI
Compliance & Standards
Safety Critical Applications
THE CHALLENGE: SAFE AI-BASED CRITICAL SYSTEMS
- Today’s AI allows advanced functions to run on high performance machines, but its “black‑box” decision‑making is still a challenge for automotive, rail, space and other safety‑critical applications where failure or malfunction may result in severe harm.
- Machine- and deep‑learning solutions running on high‑performance hardware enable true autonomy, but until they become explainable, traceable and verifiable, they can’t be trusted in safety-critical systems.
- Each sector enforces its own rigorous safety standards to ensure the technology used is safe (Space- ECSS, Automotive- ISO26262/ ISO21448/ ISO8800, Rail-EN 50126/8), and AI must also meet these functional safety requirements.
MAKING CERTIFIABLE AI A REALITY
Our next-generation open software platform is designed to make AI explainable, and to make systems where AI is integrated compliant with safety standards. This technology bridges the gap between cutting-edge AI capabilities and the rigorous demands for safety-crtical environments. By joining experts on AI robustness, explainable AI, functional safety and system design, and testing their solutions in safety critical applications in space, automotive and rail domains, we’re making sure we’re contribuiting to trustworthy and reliable AI.
Key activities:
SAFEXPLAIN is enabling the use of AI in safety-critical system by closing the gap between AI capabilities and functional safety requirements.
See SAFEXPLAIN technology in action
CORE DEMO
The Core Demo is built on a flexible skeleton of replaceable building blocks for Interference, Supervision or Diagnoistic components that allow it to be adapted to different secnarios. Full domain-specific demos are available in the technologies page.
SPACE
Mission autonomy and AI to enable fully autonomous operations during space missions
Specific activities: Identify the target, estimate its pose, and monitor the agent position, to signal potential drifts, sensor faults, etc
Use of AI: Decision ensemble
AUTOMOTIVE
Advanced methods and procedures to enable self-driving carrs to accurately detect road users and predict their trajectory
Specific activities: Validate the system’s capacity to detect pedestrians, issue warnings, and perform emergency braking
Use of AI: Decision Function (mainly visualization oriented)
RAIL
Review of the viability of a safety architectural pattern for the completely autonomous operation of trains
Specific activities: Validate the system’s capacity to detect obstacles, issue warnings, and perform service braking
Use of AI: Data-quality and temporal consistency scores
SAFEXPLAIN joins EU AI Community with Digital Booth @ ADR Exhibition
The 2024 European Convergence Summit, hosted by the AI, Data and Robotics Association ecosystem, was held online on 19 June 2024 and brought together influential players from AI, Data and Robotics to discuss the impact of these technologies on society. The summit...
SAFEXPLAIN invited talk, workshop and panel participations at 28th Ada-Europe conference
Coordinator Jaume Abella introduces Irune Yarza as part of SAFEAI workshop co-located within 28th Ada-Europe conference The 28th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2024) was held in Barcelona, Spain from 11-14 June 2024. This...
Developing safe and explainable AI for autonomous driving: Automotive case study
NAVINFO has been working to validate the real-world applicability of their work by deploying an autonomous driving system on an embedded compute platform. Two videos showcase the performance of their driving agent in relevant safety scenarios.
2023 VDA Automotive SYS Conference in Berlin
The Quality Management Centre of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) hosted the VDA Automotive SYS Conference in Berlin, Germany from 10-13 July 2023. This conference served as a platform for industry leaders and experts to discuss and showcase the...
Clustering Workshop: Establishing the next level of ‘intelligence’ and autonomy
On 2 March 2023, the SAFEXPLAIN project joined 8 other EU-funded projects under the HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-01 topic to share information on eachothers projects, get to know other fund recipients and explore synergies that could be pursued in common for trustworthy...
DATE 2023
The 2023 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference, The European Event for Electronic System Design and Test was held 17 April 2023. The DATE conference is the main European event bringing together designers and design automation users, researchers and vendors...