September 18, 2025

Ensuring Safe Control of Automated/Autonomous Ground Vehicles

Key Points

A new approach improves functional safety for automated and autonomous vehicles, ensuring user security.
The study reveals that existing safety measures are insufficient when personnel are near complex vehicles.
Observational analysis focuses on both military and civilian applications of off road vehicles with telerobotic features.
The findings highlight the need for rapid implementation of safety improvements without hindering development.

Abstract

Automated, telerobotic, and autonomous off road vehicles present unique safety concerns for their users, both military and civilian, due to their complexity and their extensive use of open source software. This is particularly true when personnel are intermingled with vehicles as is common during many operations. This paper presents a unique approach to providing true functional safety while permitting the developers of the automated/telerobotic/autonomous hardware and software to rapidly implement changes and improvements.

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Cite This Study

Underhill et al. (Tue,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d462db31b076d99fa62a19 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4271/2025-01-0436

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