Safety of Perception System for Automated Driving: A Case Study on Apollo

This replication package consists of the detailed results of the safety assessment process of Apollo 7.0’s perception system for its use on a 3.4-kilometer segment of the Dutch highway, A270.

‘Operational design domain description’ consists of a detailed description of the operational area (operational design domain).

‘Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment’ is a Microsoft Excel workbook of 6 sheets comprising of all intermediate results from the first two steps of safety requirement elicitation (hazard analysis, risk assessment), along with the final result (safety goals and their risk levels).

‘Safety Analysis’ is a pdf document showing the translation of system-wide safety goals to the safety goals specific to components using fault tree analysis.

‘Safety Requirements’ is a Microsoft Excel workbook of 2 sheets comprising the final result of the safety requirement elicitation process, i.e., safety requirements (1) for traditional software (2) specific to ML-based systems.

‘Design assessment’ is a Microsoft Excel workbook of 2 sheets comprising the design assessment results. Specifically, the sheets consist of (1) the safety requirements and applicable design choices for each requirement; (2) where did we assess each requirement; (3) the final verdict for assessment of each requirement; (4) the reason for the verdict and the design decisions found in Apollo’s perception system related artifacts.